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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Forwarding for your kind information, the little news and the grand plans of Government of Pakistan to build Great Firewall. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>We believe that it coincides well with the UN’s Experts Panel on 29th February<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>and the panelists may like to raise this? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>RFP is attached and here is the link: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://ictrdf.org.pk/RFP-%20URL%20Filtering%20&%20Blocking.pdf">http://ictrdf.org.pk/RFP-%20URL%20Filtering%20&%20Blocking.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>An excerpt from the RFP:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>“</span><i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Each box should be able to handle a block list of up to <b>50 million URLs</b> (concurrent unidirectional filtering capacity) with processing delay of <b>not more than 1 milliseconds</b>."</span></i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Bytes for All, Pakistan have been expecting that there will be major crackdown on the Internet towards elections… and this probably is the start of things to come in the near future. We are going to issue a public statement on this and will share the updates. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Best wishes and regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Shahzad Ahmad<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.bytesforall.pk">www.bytesforall.pk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>