[187695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Softlayer / Blocking Cuba IP's ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Collin Anderson)
Fri Feb 19 16:49:17 2016
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From: Collin Anderson <collin@averysmallbird.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:48:53 -0500
To: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
wrote:
> So, out of the blue, after years and years of everything working, suddenly
> emails flowing thru spam filtering service hosted on Softlayer Cloud,
> totally blocked any / all emails from Cuba from coming thru... We just
> spent last 10 days tracking everything down ....
>
That's a terrible mess, and vividly illustrates how such poor compliance
decision-making clobbers a policy that the U.S. is attempting to promote
(both Internet and flights). Protecting Internet access in sanctioned
countries has been a longtime advocacy project of mine, and something that
from a legal perspective there has been pretty considerable success on.
These sorts of case studies are helpful, so please feel free to drop a note
if such issues arise in the future.
--
*Collin David Anderson*
averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
