Hello Andre, I am a bit surprised at your reply. In fact, the domain take down process is described in the law:
http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/784_104/a14bist.html Besides the rather strict legal framework we operate in, we must submitt a list ob blocked domain names OFCOM four times a year. And we must be able to explain our action for each of these. The OFCOM people monitor this process quite closely. I hope this clarifies matters. Best regards Serge On 08/12/2012 07:12 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > On 10.08.2012 16:27, Serge Droz wrote: >> Hello Swinogers, >> >> you may have read our press release yesterday: >> http://www.switch.ch/about/news/2012/malware-080812.html >> >> In the latest "PandaLabs Quarterly Report" Switzerland is judged as the >> "Least infected" country. While one always has to read such number with >> care, we still feel it indicates that Swiss ISPs do a good job. >> We've been sending out reports about infected systems since about a >> year, and the response was positive. Most people did put in the >> additional effort to support their customers fixing the problems. >> >> Thus a big "Thank you" to all who take security serious.. > > Despite the results in cleaning up *websites* I still feel uneasy about > this completely extra-judicial domain takedown process. A domain is at > least as important as a specially assigned phone number. When BAKOM > want's to deactivate such a phone number because of alleged abuse it > has to issue an official order (Verfügung) which can be appealed in legal > court. Then court then may, or may not, issue a stay on the order until > things are further analysed or sorted out. > > Here SWITCH is the accuser and executioner in union. On top of that it > will only re-establish the domain when SWITCH is satisfied that its demands > are fulfilled. There is no appeals process, no legal court, no 3rd party > review, simply nothing. And ".ch" Domains are a Swiss federal resource > in law. > > It seems we haven't hit the edge cases yet where there is disagreement on > whether something actually is malware or malicious enough between SWITCH > and a domain holder. > > I'm waiting for the day "megarapiddownload.ch" (made that up) is considered > illicit for the purpose of a domain disable procedure. What then? IFPI > throwing a party? > -- SWITCH Serving Swiss Universities -------------------------- Serge Droz, SWITCH-CERT Werdstrasse 2, P.O. Box, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland phone +41 44 268 15 63, fax +41 44 268 15 78 serge.d...@switch.ch, http://www.switch.ch _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
