[132302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Blocking International DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Nov 19 15:45:45 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:45:39 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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It seems that the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act =
(COICA) passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee=20
with a unanimous (!) vote :
=
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/pirate-slaying-censorship-=
bill-gets-unanimous-support.ars
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=3Ds111-3804
I claim operational content for this as, on the basis of court orders, =
i..e. a
"temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction, or an injunction =
against the domain name used by an Internet site dedicated to infringing =
activities"
it requires that, for foreign domain names,
"(i) a service provider, as that term is defined in section 512(k)(1) of =
title 17, United States Code, or other operator of a domain name system =
server shall take reasonable steps that will prevent a domain name from =
resolving to that domain name=92s Internet protocol address;"
This expedited DNS cutoff is only available for copyright violations, =
not for other illegalities.=20
Whether this has any chance of actually passing through this Lame Duck =
Congress remains to be seen, but my personal reading is that that is not =
likely.=20
Regards
Marshall=
