On Tue, 15 May 2007, Miller, Raul D wrote:
> Dean Anderson wrote:
> > It was decided a long time ago that DNS data is public knowledge.
>
> Who decided what?
The IETF. See RFC3833.
> I get a 404 on this page,
Oops. My mistake. It should be:
http://www.av8.net/IETF-watch/People/JohnLevine
> and I'm dubious about this legal reasoning.
I've heard this a lot. In nearly 10 years of calling ISPs a couple times
a month to remove unlawful blocks (which escalates to lawyers about once
every 6 months after running into a SORBS-partisan sysadmin), no ISP
lawyers have ever disagreed.
Interloc was also dubious. Their view got the company criminal charges
and a $250,000 fine. The company plead guilty. The IT sysadmin plead
guilty, and were fined $2100 in a plea deal to testify against
Councilman. Councilman claimed the sysadmin misled him, told him
everything was legal and that he didn't order any illegal activity.
The jury bought it and let Councilman off. They all got fired, needless
to say.
See also http://www.av8.net/ECPA/USvCouncilman.html
--Dean
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