[187691] in North American Network Operators' Group
Softlayer / Blocking Cuba IP's ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Fri Feb 19 15:28:10 2016
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:27:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hello All,=20
This is a shout out to Softlayer Network Admin / Policy folks...
We just went thru a painful process to find out that Softlayer has recently=
decided to block Cuba IP Address Space....(on their cloud services).
I am not a politician, nor any kind of a policy expert, However I have a =
=C2=A0questions for the SoftLayer folks...
On What basis, legal requirement, logic, =C2=A0have they taken on the respo=
nsibility to implement such a Block ?=20
Considering the fact that such a block was just put in place about a week a=
go ?=20
Last time I checked, blocking any part of the world is not part of any lega=
l requirements on any Global Service Provider ? other than a 'company polic=
y' ?
Also, the Last time I checked the US Cuba relations are getting better not =
worse!
Would love to know what was the reasoning behind such action !
Thank you.=20
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
