[97771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Belgian court rules that ISPs must block file-sharing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Thu Jul 5 21:31:03 2007
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:26:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0707052116480.29836@clifden.donelan.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134159-c,internetlegalissues/article.html
> >>
> >> Note that this is based on their interpretation of EU law.
> >
> > and a hearty 'good luck' to them... :( I suppose someone could point the
> > Belgian's over to the Panamanians (who tried to block VoIP, thanks C&W
> > PTT for that 'fun'). Hurray, more clue- legislation...
>
> Does anyone have an english language translation of the eleven methods
> proposed by the "expert" to implement this order?
>
it'd be interesting, perhaps someone can pry the translation out of a
nanog-belgian-speaker for a beer or 3?
> I don't think it is going to be pratical, especially since the NSA hasn't
> solved the problem of covert channels in decades. But maybe this "expert"
> has come up with something novel. Or maybe not.
>
> But I'd like to see what was proposed before passing judgement on it.
sure.
