Live filtering pilot has no success criteria
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the DBCDE has not set criteria to determine if the live ISP filtering trial is a success. According to FOI assessment documents, the outcomes of the Pilot will inform the Government’s decision on the ISP filtering framework and ‘therefore there are not success criteria’. Here’s a copy...
Optus will participate in Internet filtering trial
Journalists (and other reliable sources) on Twitter are reporting that Senator Conroy’s office has announced Optus will participate in the DBCDE ISP filtering trial. A media release was emailed from Conroy’s office this afternoon, but has not been published on his site yet. Update (3:42PM): Press release published on minister’s site. Here are excerpts from...
Live filter pilot will not involve real customers
It has been revealed that one of the most important elements of the live ISP filtering pilot, testing the impact filtering a blacklist of 10,000 URLs has on network performance, will be a closed network test and will not involve actual customers. Here’s an extract from a letter sent by Senator Conroy to an Australian...
Live filtering trial to leave ISPs in the lurch (and what else the EOI tells us)
A certain Senator in Canberra is hoping for a miracle this Christmas. That’s the only conclusion I can come to when I read that the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy expects their live ISP filtering trial to begin before the end of the year. Preferably before 24 December 2008 to be precise....
Blogger reaction to filtering trial
It’s been nearly a week since Conroy hailed the Tassie ISP filtering trial a success. Here’s an overview of what other bloggers are saying about it: ‘The mainstream media in Australia has been outraged by the Internet censorship in China, but seems to be paying no attention to its rise in their own backyard.’ –...
More flaws surface in clean feed trial
Network engineer Glen Turner has voiced his concerns about the Tassie filtering trial. In the comments section of my earlier post, Glen says a critical flaw exists in the trial’s testbed design: ’80-90% of Australia?s Internet traffic goes to the USA, a considerable distance and a large amount of latency. This is not simulated in...
