[AusNOG] Conroy announcement on filtering

[Michael Kratz]

Google Australia have just posted a blog entry about the filtering:

http://google-au.blogspot.com/2009/12/our-views-on-mandatory-isp-filtering.html



On 16/12/2009, at 11:13 AM, Craig Meyers wrote:

> Agreed.
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> I didn’t see anything either. I’ll add another group – ISPs that provide internet access for government departments.
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> My understanding we have clients that need completely unfiltered access to do their job.
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> Are there exceptions?
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> -- Craig Meyers
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> BTW As a disclaimer, I’m only speaking as myself here.
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 December 2009 10:36 AM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Conroy announcement on filtering
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> Question,
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> Does anyone know the finer points of this proposal... meaning... is it aimed/directed at consumer/retail ISP’s – which seems to be their justification – or to all ISP’s who sell connectivity.. and what is the flow down effect?
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> I.e.  Does Vocus have to do this? Does Telstra Direct?  If I have an ISP we manage who has say both of those as transit providers, who are (?) filtered, do we then have to worry as the upstreams are?  It would be kind of redundant?
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> So, let’s ponder that companies like Vocus, MCI, etc who only sell transit to businesses... or a business focused ISP – do they have to filter?
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> I have some Micro sized ISP’s – like PowerTel partners and alike... do they have to filter?  They only have a few hundred connections and only to businesses.
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> Just pondering eintellego’s response, but don’t actually see anything that differentiates what an ISP is.
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> Thoughts?