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Dear Marco<br><br>Happy new year to you too!<br><br>We have been battling this issue in Australia for a number of years and with the new Federal Labor Government it seems the battle is still not over.<br><br>For news on this, see http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22990520-27197,00.html.<br><br>For the results of our 2004 "Review of the regulation of content delivered over mobile communications devices", see http://www.dbcde.gov.au/media_broadcasting/consultation_and_submissions/closed_consultations/a_review_of_the_regulation_of_content_delivered_over_mobile_communications_devices<br><br>Regards<br><br>Alan Arnott<br>Technology Lawyer<br><br>ARNOTTS LAWYERS<br>P: +61(0)2 9419 6355<br>F: +61(0)2 9419 8795<br>E: alan@arnotts.net.au<br>www.arnotts.net.au <br><br>This message is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the addressee. It may also be privileged or protected by other legal rules such as legal privilege. If you have received it by mistake, please let us know by reply to the sender and delete it from your system. Confidentiality and legal privilege are not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery of this message to you. You should not copy this message or use or disclose its contents to anyone without our express consent. We use virus scanning software but exclude all liability for viruses, defects or anything similar in any transmission to you. If this email also contains an attachment you should not open the attachment unless you acknowledge our exclusion of all liability for viruses, defects and the like which may be contained in any such attachment and which may cause any damage or loss to you as a result. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> Marco Huggenberger [mailto:marco@by-night.ch]<br><b>To:</b> ausnog@ausnog.net<br><b>Sent:</b> Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:04:35 +1100<br><b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Happy new year / New rules for age-restricted internet and mobile content after the 20th of january 2008<br><br>Dear AusNOGers!<br>
<br>
I wish you all a happy new year and may your private and business<br>
wishes/goals come true in 2008 ;)<br>
<br>
On the popular german IT news website Heise [1] I just followed a news<br>
posting regarding new rules for age-restricted internet and mobile<br>
content [2] which are in place after the 20th of january this year.<br>
<br>
I'm just wondering what the position of AusNOG members is since we<br>
have some similar issues with internet regulations also here over in<br>
switzerland?! And if you're willing to filter, are you able to filter<br>
all your customer traffic (we don't have a layer 7 firewall for our 10<br>
gigabit-ethernet backbone)?<br>
<br>
On the 2nd of may 2003 a judge in lausanne (french speaking part of<br>
switzerland) decided to send us a mandate to "filter" some internet<br>
domains via blocking some domains manually by manipulating the DNS<br>
Servers of each swiss ISP with a blank redirect or an information page<br>
[4], like my company did.<br>
After intervention of SwiNOG and the appeal from most ISPs which<br>
received this mandate we have been authorized to remove this "useless"<br>
DNS filtering mechanism.<br>
<br>
Then, mid december 2007, this happens again to some swiss ISPs which<br>
should again block some domains on their DNS infrastructure against<br>
some law issues. Looks like they've learned nothing and the "game"<br>
continues. On the other hand, we didn't receive the last mandate<br>
recently, maybe they've just select ISPs randomly ;)<br>
<br>
I think it's not the job of Network Operators Group to protect each<br>
individual ISP from such regulation but it shows that the joined<br>
forces and exchange about this topic could help resisting "some"<br>
missunderstandings of justice to wallpaper or tap the internet with<br>
some wired tactics to pass on the responsibility to the ISPs.<br>
<br>
Would be great to hear some other point of views...<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
Marco<br>
<br>
[1] sorry, german only: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101164" target="_blank">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101164</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_310907" target="_blank">http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_310907</a><br>
[3] sorry, french only:<br>
<a href="http://www.nrg4u.com/abuse/canton-de-vaud-tribunal-daccusation.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nrg4u.com/abuse/canton-de-vaud-tribunal-daccusation.pdf</a><br>
[4] sorry, german only: <a href="http://vaud.init7.net/" target="_blank">http://vaud.init7.net/</a><br>
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