Welcome to the Internet Sanctions Project

This is an open, Internet community governed, project which produces BGP and RPZ feeds of network resources (IP addresses, Autonomous System numbers, and domain names) associated with sanctioned entities. These feeds facilitate Internet network operators in complying with the sanction requirements imposed by their respective governments.

Origin of the project

This project originated in an open letter from leaders of the multistakeholder Internet governance community, calling for constructive dialog about the imposition of Internet-related sanctions, and for a principled approach to sanctions which would explicitly rule the civilian population to be not a valid target.

Structure

The project is implemented by five working groups:

• A policy group monitors the political situation and the sanction initiatives of national governments, and evaluates proposed sanctions in light of the project's principles. If a sanction is deemed in-scope, the policy group defines the sanctioned entities and passes them to the OSINT group. The policy group is also responsible for determining when existing sanctions should be repealed.

• An OSINT group investigates and catalogs the Internet resources (IP addresses, Autonomous System numbers, and domain names) held by sanctioned entities.

• An oversight board provides a final check on which resources are included in the blocking feed. When anything is added to the feed, an announcement will be posted to the (read-only) announcement email list, which you're welcome to subscribe to, to keep track of the project's outcomes.

• An operations group keeps the BGP and RPZ feed publishing mechanisms working.

• A research group is responsible for metrics and monitoring of the system and its effectiveness, and liaison with the academic community.

Participation

This is a community volunteer effort, and your participation is welcome! Please consider subscribing to the email discussion lists.