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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In view of its growing
cyber security concerns, India has decided to challenge the U.S.
government’s control over the Internet and ensure that the trio of
the U.S., Russia and China does not ignore India’s concerns while
developing an international regime for Internet governance.</p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">India will also push for
storing all Internet data within the country, besides ensuring
control and management of servers.</p>
<p class="body" style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New
Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: left;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The control of Internet
was in the hands of the U.S. government and the key levers
relating to its management was dominated by its security
agencies…Mere location of root servers in India would not serve
any purpose unless we were also allowed a role in their control
and management. We should insist that data of all domain names
originating from India…should be stored in India. Similarly, all
traffic originating/landing in India should be stored in India,”
says an internal note prepared after the meeting of Sub-Committee
on International Cooperation on Cyber Security under the National
Security Council Secretariat (NSCS).</p>
<p class="body" style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New
Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: left;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Notably, the key function
of domain name system (DNS) management today is in the hands of
the U.S. National Telecommunication and Information Administration
and the Department of Commerce. Though after persistently putting
pressure on companies, India managed to get root servers installed
in the country, it wants a say in management of these servers.
India is also seeking a key role in policy making on Internet
governance at the international level, said a senior government
official engaged in India’s cyber security preparedness.</p>
<p class="body" style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New
Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: left;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It was important that
management and control of the DNS should be supervised by a
‘Board’ consisting of technical experts nominated by governments
and India should be represented on this Board. We should seek a
larger determinate role for the GAC [Government Advisory
Committee] in ICANN [Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Number] a U.S.-based non-profit organisation that coordinates
global Internet systems, which we should be effectively
represented,” the note adds.</p>
<p class="body" style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New
Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: left;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Significantly, under the
‘Affirmation of Commitments’ between the ICANN and the U.S.
Department of Commerce, the ICANN committed that it would not
shift outside of the U.S. without the concurrence of the U.S.
government and the process of Internet management would be led by
private sector. At the meeting, held last month and headed by
Deputy National Security Advisor and NSCS Secretary Nehchal
Sandhu, it was decided that the Ministry of External Affairs along
with the Department of Electronic and Information Technology
(DEITy) and the NSCS, will develop a position paper, highlighting
India’s concerns regarding representation and management control
in the Internet governance domain.</p>
<p class="body" style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New
Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: left;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">India is also concerned
about the proximity of the U.S., Russia and China while deciding
on issue of Internet governance. “There was a possibility that the
U.S., Russia and China may work out an arrangement that met their
concerns and this arrangement was thereafter forced upon other
countries. We need to guard against this possibility and ensure
that India’s concerns were also accommodated in whatever
international regime for Internet governance that ultimately
emerged,” the note adds. Notably, today India has third largest
Internet users in the world at over 15 crore, only after China (56
crore) and the U.S. (25 crore).</p>
<p class="body" style="outline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
20px; color: rgb(59, 58, 57); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New
Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: left;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Similarly, India has also
decided to favour a pre-dominantly multilateral approach on issues
related to Internet governance rather than multi-stakeholder
approach which is mainly being advocated by the West. “India feels
that the very term multi-stakeholder was something of a
‘misnomer’. A small unrepresentative group of certain individuals,
supported by vested interests, appear to have arrogated themselves
the right to present certain views in discussions relating to
Internet governance. It was not clear as to who they represent and
whether who they claimed to represent had in fact nominated them.
These persons undermine the positions of the government and were
really spokespersons of certain Western interests,” the note says.</p>
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