A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Internet Architecture Board Working Group of the IETF. Title : Technical Considerations for Internet Service Blocking and Filtering Author(s) : Richard Barnes Alissa Cooper Olaf Kolkman Filename : draft-iab-filtering-considerations-04.txt Pages : 27 Date : 2013-10-21 Abstract: The Internet is structured to be an open communications medium. This openness is one of the key underpinnings of Internet innovation, but it can also allow communications that may be viewed as undesirable by certain parties. Thus, as the Internet has grown, so have mechanisms to limit the extent and impact of abusive or objectionable communications. Recently, there has been an increasing emphasis on "blocking" and "filtering," the active prevention of such communications. This document examines several technical approaches to Internet blocking and filtering in terms of their alignment with the overall Internet architecture. In general, the approach to blocking and filtering that is most coherent with the Internet architecture is to inform endpoints about potentially undesirable services, so that the communicants can avoid engaging in abusive or objectionable communications. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-filtering-considerations There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-filtering-considerations-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-iab-filtering-considerations-04 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt