[NA-Discuss] Unrest continues to be met with Internet lockdown

[Marc Rotenberg]

Relevant article in todays NY Times:

  "Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet," Feb. 15, 2011
  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/technology/16internet.html?hp

This issue is not going away. ALAC should
develop a position.

Marc.



On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Beau Brendler wrote:

> Eric wrote:
> 
>> I see no point in revisiting the recent limited statements of ICANN or 
>> ALAC, or their offered rationals, but I do see a point in attempting 
>> to know what access models actually exist, and having data sufficient 
>> to support predictive modeling of disruptive local policy on the 
>> regional and global internet.
> 
> How can we put something like this together? This kind of information-gathering would be helpful to the user community and could also probably be used to get the attention of the press.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Garth Bruen at KnujOn <gbruen at knujon.com>
>> Sent: Feb 16, 2011 11:50 AM
>> To: Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net>
>> Cc: na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Unrest continues to be met with Internet lockdown
>> 
>> Not proposing a re-write, just staying abreast
>> 
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Unrest continues to be met with Internet
>>> lockdown
>>> From: Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net>
>>> Date: Wed, February 16, 2011 11:44 am
>>> To: na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Garth,
>>> 
>>> Again, I never hope to be more than a minority of one, and while I 
>>> read MENA IT news on NANOG, MENOG, Aljazeera (commercially censored in 
>>> most North American broadcast/cable media markets) and through S/N 
>>> feeds from or about contacts in West Asia and North Africa, I find it 
>>> useful to distinguish what technical means are being deployed to 
>>> effect some explicit or implicit state policy goal.
>>> 
>>> I* know that targeted communications degradation was attempted first, 
>>> affecting S/N data flows, and when either that failed, due to the 
>>> scale of the S/N participating nodes (thousands of SMS and IPv4 
>>> capable devices sourcing audio and video capture data) or the policy 
>>> goal required degradation of more instances of communications than 
>>> just S/N, prefix withdrawals were announced by all access and transit 
>>> providers with the exception of the Noor Group, who's prefixes were 
>>> withdrawn later.
>>> 
>>> The mechanism pursued by the Syrian state until last week, and the 
>>> mechanism utilized by the Iranian state, during the last election, and 
>>> recently, S/N blocking and rate throttling, and the mechanisms 
>>> utilized by the Algerian state, the Bahrain state, the Lybian state, 
>>> are distinct.
>>> 
>>> The utility of "keeping score by technical means" is that it allows an 
>>> analysis of whether other technical mechanisms such as deep packet 
>>> inspection and content analysis, routine in North America and present 
>>> also in Europe, but requiring high capitalization of the intercept 
>>> platform, are keeping pace with the repressive state's policy 
>>> requirements and the liberation social movements and the political 
>>> organizations means of maintaining internal and external communications.
>>> 
>>> I see no point in revisiting the recent limited statements of ICANN or 
>>> ALAC, or their offered rationals, but I do see a point in attempting 
>>> to know what access models actually exist, and having data sufficient 
>>> to support predictive modeling of disruptive local policy on the 
>>> regional and global internet.
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> * Some subscribers have attributed other mechanisms, or a lack of data 
>>> sufficient to make any attribution.
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