On December, 6 Moscow housed the Eighth Peering forum MSK-IX. The organizers of the forum are Moscow Internet Exchange (MSK-IX), the forum was held at the support of the Technical Center of Internet (TCI).The event was attended by the representatives of the leading Internet –operators and providers, governmental agencies and non- governmental industrial organizations.
The panel discussion “Restriction of access to illegal content in Russia. Experience in resources filtration by operators and providers”, held by a moderator, CEO of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ Andrey Kolesnikov ,considered the first results and difficulties faced by the operators, Internet –providers and industrial organizations due to coming into force of federal law №139.
The professional discussion revealed some restrictions of this law and applicable procedures. The use of qualified electronic digital signature was seriously criticized as impeding the access to the registry for operators and Internet –providers. Both experts and audience agreed that there was no urgent need to use qualified electronic digital signature.
The participants of the panel discussion marked that the filtration of resources from the “black list” might be made not only by IP –address but with the use of finer adjustments such as analysis and packets filtration. IP-address filtration destroys the infrastructure of the Internet coherence and potentially blocks access to both resources from the “black list” and to quite reliable sites. Moreover, these resources become inaccessible not only in Russian but in other countries that have Internet access provided by Russian communication carriers. For major communications carriers filtration with the analysis of packet data is quite costly and inconvenient due to the huge traffic volume, but medium and small carriers servicing the majority of Internet users in Russia are good at the adjustment of such sophisticated filters.
A special heated discussion was caused by the resources filtration at inter -carrier traffic exchange. The participants pointed out that filtration had to be made as close to the end user as possible as the expenses decrease significantly and the efficiency rises.
The panel discussion set forth specific proposals concerning, for example, the organization of the access to the registry of banned sites for Internet providers whose activity is not subject to licensing and organizations announcing that the site is in the “black list” for its direct owner. It was noticed necessary to introduce to the legislation the notion of “the resource owner”.
“The discussions like that are positive and efficient means to convey the opinion of the technical Internet community to legislators and regulators. Today the community sounds out reasonable proposals which, I’ m sure, may make the applied methods of access restriction more efficient”, said Andrey Kolesnikov.
