Re: NSA and the exchanges
Andy, Let me recommend the IXmaps project. It is documenting the very question you are asking :) http://www.ixmaps.ca IXmaps is an interactive tool that enables internet users and researchers to study the route(s) that data packets take across North America, with 'interesting' sites highlighted along the way. It is currently under development. It has been supported by a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology program. IXmaps is affiliated with the New Transparency Project and the Information Policy Research Program at theFaculty of Information, University of Toronto. regards Robert -- Robert Guerra Senior Advisor, Citizen Lab Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Phone: +1 416-893-0377 Cell: +1 202 905 2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rob...@citizenlab.org Web: http://citizenlab.org On 2012-10-31, at 2:25 PM, andy lam wrote: Anyone knows if there's a way to find out how involved NSA monitors 151 front street at Toronto? NSA allegedly monitors data centres in the US, but does it have the same influence at a building sitting in its neighbor's soil? There's something on the web like www.ixmaps.ca that tries to piece it together. but not sure how helpful the information on there really is? feedback welcome.
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
Am I correct in assuming that the unused IP block would not be sold as is mentioned in the article, but instead be returned to RIPE to be reallocated? Robert On 18 Sep 2012, at 10:07, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://paritynews.com/network/item/325-department-of-work-and-pensions-uk-in-possession-of-169-million-unused-ipv4-addresses Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses Written by Ravi Mandalia Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire block of '/8' IPv4 addresses that is unused and an e-petition has been filed in this regards asking the DWP to sell it off thus easing off the RIPE IPv4 address space scarcity a little. John Graham-Cumming, who found this unused block, wrote in a blog post that the DWP was in possession of 51.0.0.0/8 IPv4 addresses. According to Cumming, these 16.9 million IP addresses are unused at the moment and he derived this conclusion by doing a check in the ASN database. “A check of the ASN database will show that there are no networks for that block of addresses,” he wrote. An e-petition has been filed in this regards. “It has recently come to light that the Department for Work and Pensions has its own allocated block of 16,777,216 addresses (commonly referred to as a /8), covering 51.0.0.0 to 51.255.255.255”, reads the petition. The UK government, if it sells off this /8 block, could end up getting £1 billion mark. “£1 billion of low-effort extra cash would be a very nice thing to throw at our deficit,” read the petition. Cumming ends his post with the remark, “So, Mr. Cameron, I'll accept a 10% finder's fee if you dispose of this asset :-)”.
Routing Gone Wild: Documenting upstream filtering in Oman via India
I know this is outside the NANOG area. Posting here as it might be of interest. Ron and I welcome any comments folks on the list might have on the report. --- New Citizen Lab / ONI cross-posted blog report: Routing Gone Wild: Documenting upstream filtering in Oman via India Key Findings • Data collected from Oman shows that web filtering applied by India-based ISPs is restricting access to content for customers of an ISP in Oman. While unusual, content filtering undertaken in one political jurisdiction can have an effect on users in another political jurisdiction as a result of ISP routing arrangements – a phenomenon known as “upstream filtering.” • Content found to be filtered includes news sites, political blogs and file sharing sites. • Some variability in filtering was documented, potentially linked to certain measures to loosen filtering regulations in India. https://citizenlab.org/2012/07/routing-gone-wild/ Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab r.deib...@utoronto.ca
