[AusNOG] Finally - Someone has turned the switch on withn the Federal Labor Gov.

[Mark Newton]

On 09/11/2012, at 7:00 AM, Rhys McMurdo <rhys_ausnog at mcmurdo.id.au> wrote:

> Am I missing something, or has nothing really changed?

The Government's new policy is the status quo we've had since 2001.  The Government
could have arrived at this point 5 years ago without wrecking their goodwill and 
reputation, but Conroy only knows how to do things by fighting, so that's how we got
here.

> It just looks like they are replacing a pre-defined filter list with one they will make up themselves?

They have in-principle agreement to do... something.

I can't see anyone in law enforcement wanting to distribute the interpol list to (say)
smellyblackdog.com.au. And even if they did, they'd need to give it to you in plaintext
so you could load it into your DNS server.  Security nightmare.

My expectation is that now the ALP has moved forward by announcing an intention
to move nowhere, nothing will actually happen.  You might theoretically receive 
section 313 requests to block URLs, but you'll never actually see any.  Success,
DBCDE-style.

I'd be interested in hearing if any ISPs ever receive any URLs. I obviously don't want 
to know what the URLs are, but whether they exist will be a useful accountability 
datapoint.

  - mark

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