[141263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: (OT) UN declares Internet access a "human right"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jun 7 00:47:45 2011
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 00:41:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1106070737550.29779@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Jimmy Hess wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:11 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Well, the operational concern is...
>
> that if you config an ACL you might be accused and brought to trial
> for crimes against humanity.
Now *this* is a valid, on-topic issue for this list.
Does your employer have written protocols concerning what should be done
and who is responsible when orders are given?
This is *not* the Nuremberg trials; Martinez-Baker is probably the controlling
case, though IANAL.
So that we're clear, though, my interpretation of the original directive
is that it forbids *member governments* from cutting off Internet access,
and I don't know that it got into enough detail to suggest that this
applied at the tactical, rather than strategic level.
If I were running an ISP or IAP, you can bet I'd have a better answer than
that, though, and your employer should too -- If a CxO hasn't talked to
a General Counsel since that press release came out, then someone's
falling down on the job.
Cheers,
-- jra
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