ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee On DNS Blocking

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ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has published a paper on DNS Blocking.

SSAC 50: DNS Blocking: Benefits Versus Harms is available for download in PDF here

The paper isn’t very long and has a short list of points that people should be aware of when considering implementing DNS blocking:

1. The organization imposes a policy on a network and its users over which it exercises
administrative control (i.e., it is the administrator of a policy domain).
2. The organization determines that the policy is beneficial to its objectives and/or the
interests of its users.
3. The organization implements the policy using a technique that is least disruptive to its
network operations and users, unless laws or regulations specify certain techniques.
4. The organization makes a concerted effort to do no harm to networks or users outside
its policy domain as a consequence of implementing the policy.

 

By Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade. He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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