June 23, 2023

“Concerns over DNS Blocking” by Vinton Cerf

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demand non-identifying traffic data from electronic communications operators on-demand

I’m not sure what this means. Almost all traffic data identifies someone, whether it’s the customer or their destination. I’m assuming they just don’t care about the latter, but it’s still identifying information.

I swear there was just a case of a German judge doing exactly what they’re worried about in the article, though, telling a DNS resolver that they had to censor a site from the whole internet to comply with their law.

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