SAC056 - ICANN SSAC Advisory on Impacts of Content Blocking via the Domain Name System
Venue
ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) Reports and Advisories, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) (2012)
Publication Year
2012
Authors
Warren Kumari, Alain Aina, Jaap Akkerhuis, Don Blumenthal, KC Claffy, David Conrad, Patrik Fältström, James Galvin, Jason Livingood, Danny McPherson, Ram Mohan, Paul Vixie
BibTeX
Abstract
The use of Domain Name System (DNS) blocking to limit access to resources on the
Internet has become a topic of interest in numerousInternet governance venues.
Several governments around the world, whether by law, treaty, court order, law
enforcement action, or other actions or agreements, have either implemented DNS
blocking or are actively considering doing so. However, due to the Internet’s
architecture, blocking by domain name can be easily bypassed by end users and is
thus likely to be largely ineffective in the long term and fraught with
unanticipated consequences in the near term. In addition, DNS blocking can present
conflicts with the adoption of DNS Security Extensions(DNSSEC) and could promote
balkanization of the Internet into a country-by-country view of the Internet’s name
space.
