[132353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking International DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey S. Young)
Sun Nov 21 23:54:51 2010
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
To: "ml@kenweb.org" <ml@kenweb.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CE9F389.7040505@kenweb.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:54:36 +1100
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 22/11/2010, at 3:37 PM, ML <ml@kenweb.org> wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 3:45 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>> It seems that the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act =
(COICA) passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee
>> with a unanimous (!) vote :
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/pirate-slaying-censorship-=
bill-gets-unanimous-support.ars
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>> http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=3Ds111-3804
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>> I claim operational content for this as, on the basis of court =
orders, i..e. a
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>> "temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction, or an =
injunction against the domain name used by an Internet site dedicated to =
infringing activities"
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>> it requires that, for foreign domain names,
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>> "(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=E2=80=99s Internet protocol =
address;"
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>> This expedited DNS cutoff is only available for copyright violations, =
not for other illegalities.
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>> 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.
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>> Regards
>> Marshall
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> I wonder what would happen if the Comcasts and Verizons of the world =
threatened a $10 rate hike to cover the added administration and =
headaches of this silliness? Would joe six pack care?
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I wonder if simply adding a second, off-shore resolver to Joe six pack's =
DHCP settings wouldn't circumvent this silliness anyway. It would be =
Joe's son or daughter who wants to resolve limewire.com (et. al.), but =
wouldn't be that hard.=20
jy
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