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The CC participated in the meeting of the council for promotion of competition

Andrey Kolesnikov, the CC’s Director, delivered a presentation at a meeting of the Expert Council for promotion of competition in the IT sector organized by the Federal Antimonopoly Service. The meeting participants focused on three major subjects central to the IT sector: definition of equivalence in the conduct of public procurement, coordination of domain name registrars’ activity, and implementation of government support of IT in Russia.

Andrey Kolesnikov briefed on main trends of ccTLD .RU and compared them with major country code top-level domains: as of Q3 2010, ccTLD .RU ranks 6th among such domains by the number of registered domain names. At the same time, ccTLD .RU has lately demonstrated high growth rates against the other major country code domains. Specifically, between 2007 and 2010 ccTLD .RU increased 3-fold and today boasts 3m-plus registered domain names. Mr. Kolesnikov heralded the upcoming launch of new gTLD and related changes. “New domains will be competing with common ways of representation of trade marks in the Internet. This, in turn, will require modification of the whole paradigm of trade marks protection,” – asserts the CC’s director. Moreover, new gTLDs will erode the existing domains’ value: hundreds of new root domains, including IDNs and domains and country-code ones, will compete with the existing top-level domains and contribute to alleviation control over the Internet addressing space.

During the Qs and As session, Andrey Kolesnikov briefed on international organizations, RIPE and ICANN, which ensure Internet functioning and also emphasized that co-optation of the government representative onto the CC’s Board is critical particularly due to the international status of the registry of large national domains. As well, the meeting touched upon the issue of IPv6 and its introduction in Russia. “Today practically all major organizations operating in the sector are ready for the transition of the Internet addressing space to the IPv6 sector. However, it does not mean that in practice there will be no difficulties with access to the IPv6 resources, - said Andrey Kolesnikov. – I wish all the stakeholders of Russian IT sector were more active on the issue of introduction of support to the new protocol. Problems may pop up in this direction if nothing is done in this respect.”

Commenting on the subject of public procurements, Intel and AMD representatives noted that the issue of specifications when the circle of contractors to perform a given task inevitably narrows due to a narrow specification could easily be solved by introducing the concept of equivalence. AMD, for example, believe that determining an equivalent product in case of processors and components is possible by using available product positioning on the market. It is proposed to solve the issue of usability of a processor to perform required functions not by conservative means—that is, by launching large-scale computing, but with the help of a special script which will simulate the human activity in the workplace by opening files and office applications. Thus, according to the AMD representative, it is much more realistic to determine to what degree a particular microprocessor is suitable for solving public tasks. Alexander Ulansky, HP’s business development director described the formula of costs of supplies for laser and inkjet printers. This information may also help in determining the equivalence of parts and consumables.

Representatives of “Russoft”, “Tsentr rechevyh tehnologiy” and 1C made information reports and proposals at the meeting.

This part of the meeting focused on a variety of topics: for example, Mikhail Khitrov, director of the “Tsentr rechevyh tehnologiy” proposed to support small software developers, Boris Nuraliev, director of 1C, reported that the country is in need for qualified IT tutors, and Andrey Sviridenko from SPIRIT complained about Skype in Russia, as free IP-telephony software resists secret service’s wiretapping, channels foreign traffic through users’ computers, and poses a threat to the market for VoIP services and mobile communication.
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