On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
I think the idea is for the government to create an official
blacklist of the offending sites, and for ISPs to consult it before
routing a packet to the fraud site. The common implementation would
be an ACL on the ISPs border router. The Congress doesn't yet
understand the distinction between ISPs and transit providers, of
course, and typically says that proposed ISP regulations (including
the net neutrality regulations) apply only to consumer-facing
service providers.
If this measure passes, you can expect expansion of blocking
mandates for rogue sites of other kinds, such as kiddie porn and
DMCA scofflaws.
It's worth looking at hhttp://www.cdt.org/speech/pennwebblock/ -- a
Federal court struck down a law requiring web site blocking because of
child pornography.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
