On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Den 12. april 2016 18:52, skrev Ted Lemon:
> The UK filter is an "opt out" filter, and I assume that we (the IETF)
> opted out. Even the "opt out" blocking is voluntary at present--an ISP
> is not required by law to have a filter, but in practice the big ones do.
The particular case that made the blacklist famous in at least some
fora, and exposed quite a bit on how it worked:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia
"the action also had some indirect effects on Wikipedia, namely
temporarily preventing all editors using said ISPs in the UK from
this
is PROBABLY also for 'consumer isp connections' mostly and not 'business isp' links, which the IETF uses at meetings. I suspect, anyway.. else you may filter on the dsl/ftth/dial network AND re-filter on the backbone-isp network and again if there's a third tier...
so the IETF simply sidestepped by pretending to be an 'enterprise' network.