Re: [Pearg] Responding to "Concerns over DNS Blocking" technical error(s)

[Vittorio Bertola <[e-mail]>]

 

> Il 03/08/2023 07:12 PDT Mirja Kuehlewind <mirja.kuehlewind=[e-mail]> ha scritto:
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> On your point 2: I agree that DNS filtering or other blocking and filtering techniques are generally problematic. I’m not sure about your point about transparency; you can also design mechanisms to provide feedback about the blocking on other layers; however, if these things get implement is a different question. Still, for this letter it wasn’t the intention discuss blocking and filtering generally but point of the global implication of this proposed regulation. I find that even more problematic because there is always the option for a global/non-regional to not comply with a regulation (and depending on the market condition) not serve a certain service in a certain region anymore, which finally can really “break” the Internet. We don’t see this for DNS (yet) but we already see it e.g. in the regulatory “fights” about news content.
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I don't see the problem for the Internet if Google and other non-French resolvers stop serving DNS to France rather than comply with French law. There are hundreds of ISPs in France that provide DNS resolution to their customers, there are many open resolvers, and there will soon be the European public resolver (DNS4EU) which was funded by the Commission exactly to make sure that at least one big scale public resolver remains available in Europe even if all global resolvers went away. DNS is an open standard with many free implementations, so anyone can bring up more resolvers in case of need. Definitely, the Internet won't stop working in France.
 
This is just a business struggle for market shares and I really don't get why the IETF wants to take the side of some companies over others. I think this is not appropriate.
 
Even in general, I don't get the point that if global big tech players do not offer service in a country then this will "break the Internet". For example, Amazon is not offering service to all countries of the world - does this mean that the Internet is "broken"?

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