Jim, Niall & all -
On 30.10.2013 11:48, Jim Reid wrote:
On 30 Oct 2013, at 10:27, Niall O'Reilly <[email protected]>
wrote:
I think it deserves to be outside the DNS technical community and
certain parts of the wider French Internet community.
Indeed. However I'm unsure if this WG is the place for that as it
probably won't reach that wider French(?) Internet community. Or
those who are responsible for making regulations and laws in this
area. The OP on bind-users had a Belgian email address BTW.
That said, it would be worthwhile for this WG to try to develop
something that explains the advantages and disadvantages of various
approaches to traffic/content blocking: eg DNS tricks, various forms
of blacklisting, DPI, etc, etc. There are laws and regulations on
this topic popping up all over the RIPE service region and IMO it
would be good if we could produce a document for legislators, law
enforcement, IPR lawyers, etc.
one indeed can only wonder why such approaches that do *NOT* solve the
underlying problmes keep popping up ever again. And why even worse these
approaches are still turned into binding regulation and/or legislation
despite their effectlessness.
It's like fighting poverty by putting up foldings screens around the
homeless: out of sight, problem solved.
We have had the same discussion in Germany inlcuding a law that the new
coalition (after the 2009 federal elections) asked for it not to be
applied before the law got finally cancelled in December 2011. *)
In particular eco, Germany's ISP association, fought it heavily for
obvious reasons. I'd assume that the arguments brought forward three
years ago are still very vaild and could form a basis for the suggested
document.
Best,
-C.
*) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz
