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	Title           : Technical Considerations for Internet Service Blocking
	Author(s)       : Richard Barnes
                          NLnet Labs
	Filename        : draft-barnes-blocking-considerations-01.txt
	Pages           : 19
	Date            : 2012-07-16

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 allow communications that may be viewed as either desirable or
   undesirable by different parties.  Thus, as the Internet has grown,
   so have mechanisms to limit the extent and impact of abusive or
   allegedly illegal communications.  Recently, there has been an
   increasing emphasis on "blocking", the active prevention of abusive
   or allegedly illegal communications.  This document examines several
   technical approaches to Internet content blocking in terms of their
   alignment with the overall Internet architecture.  In general, the
   approach to content blocking 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
   illegal communications.


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