Hello.
Erika's mention of the need "to decrease the gap in the dialogue
between governments and the technical community"
and a current thread on the bind-users mailing list made me wonder
whether the report I mention in the message
below is as well known as I think it deserves to be outside the DNS
technical community and certain parts of the
wider French Internet community.
Best regards,
Niall O'Reilly
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Niall O'Reilly <[email protected]>
> Date: 30 October 2013 10:16:26 GMT
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: use bind 9.8 as caching server and authoritative nameserver
> message-id: <[email protected]>
>
>
> On 28 Oct 2013, at 13:10, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Recently our government obligated all ISP's to block access to child-porn,
>> illegal betting sites, illegal file share sites etc...
>> I have been asked now to implement this on our caching DNS servers (serve a
>> custom zone to all of our customers that points to an IP from the government
>> that hosts a block-page)
>
> You probably understand that this approach is of limited effectiveness,
> and has arguably significant disadvantages.
>
> It may be of interest for you to read the report mentioned at either of
> the following URIs (in French, English respectively).
>
> http://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/6573/show/le-conseil-scientifique-de-l-afnic-partage-sur-le-filtrage-internet-par-dns.html
> http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/6584/show/the-afnic-scientific-council-shares-its-report-on-dns-based-internet-filtering.html
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Niall O'Reilly
> Member of AFNIC's Conseil Scientifique
>
> PS. I wan't a significant contributor to this report.
> Credit for that belongs to the colleagues who did the work. /Niall
>
