[AusNOG] Happy new year / New rules for age-restricted internet and mobile content after the 20th of january 2008

[Alan Arnott]

Dear Marco

Happy new year to you too!

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.

For news on this, see http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22990520-27197,00.html.

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

Regards

Alan Arnott
Technology Lawyer

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From: Marco Huggenberger [mailto:marco at by-night.ch]
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Sent: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:04:35 +1100
Subject: [AusNOG] Happy new year / New rules for age-restricted internet and mobile content after the 20th of january 2008

Dear AusNOGers!
  
  I wish you all a happy new year and may your private and business
  wishes/goals come true in 2008 ;)
  
  On the popular german IT news website Heise [1] I just followed a news
  posting regarding new rules for age-restricted internet and mobile
  content [2] which are in place after the 20th of january this year.
  
  I'm just wondering what the position of AusNOG members is since we
  have some similar issues with internet regulations also here over in
  switzerland?! And if you're willing to filter, are you able to filter
  all your customer traffic (we don't have a layer 7 firewall for our 10
  gigabit-ethernet backbone)?
  
  On the 2nd of may 2003 a judge in lausanne (french speaking part of
  switzerland) decided to send us a mandate to "filter" some internet
  domains via blocking some domains manually by manipulating the DNS
  Servers of each swiss ISP with a blank redirect or an information page
  [4], like my company did.
  After intervention of SwiNOG and the appeal from most ISPs which
  received this mandate we have been authorized to remove this "useless"
  DNS filtering mechanism.
  
  Then, mid december 2007, this happens again to some swiss ISPs which
  should again block some domains on their DNS infrastructure against
  some law issues. Looks like they've learned nothing and the "game"
  continues. On the other hand, we didn't receive the last mandate
  recently, maybe they've just select ISPs randomly ;)
  
  I think it's not the job of Network Operators Group to protect each
  individual ISP from such regulation but it shows that the joined
  forces and exchange about this topic could help resisting "some"
  missunderstandings of justice to wallpaper or tap the internet with
  some wired tactics to pass on the responsibility to the ISPs.
  
  Would be great to hear some other point of views...
  
  Cheers
  
  Marco
  
  [1] sorry, german only: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101164
  [2] http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_310907
  [3] sorry, french only:
  http://www.nrg4u.com/abuse/canton-de-vaud-tribunal-daccusation.pdf
  [4] sorry, german only: http://vaud.init7.net/
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