[Chapter-delegates] Input Request: DNS Blocking

[Grigori Saghyan]

Dear All,
There are 2 documents, accepted on  WSIS1 and WSIS2,  where it is 
possible to find very interesting statements:

Geneva, 2003,  Plan of Actions:
  Article C6, Enabling environment," c) Governments are invited to .... 
    ii)manage or supervise, as appropriate, their respective country 
code top-level domain name (ccTLD);"

2005, Tunis Agenda for the Information Society:

Article 63. "Countries should not be involved in decisions regarding 
another country’s country-code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD). Their 
legitimate interests, as expressed and defined by each country, in 
diverse ways, regarding decisions affecting their ccTLDs, need to be 
respected, upheld and addressed via a flexible and improved framework 
and mechanisms. "

This documents possible to understand as a declarations, but under these 
documents there are signatures of Presidents and Prime Ministers. Also
it is possible to find out there right words about involvement of all 
stakeholders, IGF dialog  and many other good wishes.
But there is a clear position - each   ccTLD is something local, which 
is under control of the government.
Of course, necessary to read WSIS documents very carefully, better to 
have a professional opinion of lawyer.
In this situation one of the solutions for Internet community is to be 
more active in cooperation with local government and bring
Internet community point of view to the governments. Of course, it is 
very hard procedure, can say,  impossible to implement
in some countries.
Other possible solution for Internet community is to promote 
registrations in  gTLD as more or less  independent  and safe place.

Grigori Saghyan
ISOC.AM










On 18.01.2011 1:36, Sally Wentworth wrote:
> We have noted that a number of governments are considering and/or implementing public policies to try to address illegal online sites (also known sometimes as “rogue websites” or "sites dedicated to infringing activities") that would require ISPs to block DNS resolution to sites containing illegal content.  While we recognize the need for development of public policy by governments (in consultation with all stakeholders), we believe that policies of this sort would have negative implications for the global DNS and for the implementation of DNSSEC, among other issues.
>
> To help ISOC and its members think about and respond to these issues we are developing principles that have global applicability and also provide a baseline to respond to national policy developments.  We are specifically seeking to address the proposals to require ISPs to block DNS resolution of "illegal" sites.  Please note that this is a different discussion/context than the issues associated with Wikileaks and so we'd like to keep those threads separate here.
>
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> We are thinking of principles along the following lines:
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> - The Internet is a global network of networks that provides for the neutral passage of packets - requirements to adjust or prevent DNS responses would impair this neutrality.
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> - For the Internet to be truly global it must be consistent - in general, what an Internet user "sees" when accessing a particular domain name from one location should be the same as what is seen when accessing the same domain name from another location
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> - Policies should be narrowly tailored and consistent with open standards and accepted operational practices: technical “fixes” to short-circuit due process or violate fundamental and accepted procedures may harm the global Internet.
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> - The Internet is global. International cooperation (rather than country-by-country solutions) at the technical and policy levels is essential.
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>
> I would appreciate your comments on the above points.  We would also welcome information on whether and how DNS blocking policies are being considered or implemented in your country.  Please send your feedback by Friday, 28 January 2011.
>
> Many thanks!
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