[119074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites H.R.3817
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Thu Nov 5 20:16:54 2009
In-Reply-To: <A0944885-EEC8-49EA-8534-B78786242C28@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:16:16 -0500
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Net neutrality suffers another blow. I liked Congress when they had no
idea what the internet was, now they've progressed to "still have no
idea but like to pretend."
Jeff
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote=
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> On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
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>> I think the idea is for the government to create an official blacklist o=
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>> the offending sites, and for ISPs to consult it before routing a packet =
to
>> the fraud site. The common implementation would be an ACL on the ISPs bo=
rder
>> router. The Congress doesn't yet understand the distinction between ISPs=
and
>> transit providers, of course, and typically says that proposed ISP
>> regulations (including the net neutrality regulations) apply only to
>> consumer-facing service providers.
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>> If this measure passes, you can expect expansion of blocking mandates fo=
r
>> rogue sites of other kinds, such as kiddie porn and DMCA scofflaws.
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> It's worth looking at hhttp://www.cdt.org/speech/pennwebblock/ -- a Feder=
al
> court struck down a law requiring web site blocking because of child
> pornography.
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.e=
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