[governance] Russia plans to create independent web / internet

Fri Oct 12 14:29:32 EDT 2007

Here's another reference to subject:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101002
642.html?referrer=emailarticle 

Carlton Samuels

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:14 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Ralf Bendrath
Subject: Re: [governance] Russia plans to create independent web / internet

Re:  Any info on the latter?

Might be referring to the Arabic Domain Names Pilot
Project -- see
ttp://www.icann.org/announcements/adnpp-v02-12dec05.pdf

--- Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Not sure what this means:
> 1) separate root server for the Russian / CIS DNS?
> 2) introduction of cyrillic IDNs?
> 3) a CIS-wide WAN / TCP-IP network that is not
> connected to the internet?
> 4) all three of the above?
> 5) just bluffing?
> 
> Does anybody know more about this?
> The text also mentions China's gated internet, but
> also refers to a
> similar thing "in development in the Arab
> countries". Any info on the latter?
> 
> Best, Ralf
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> From: gov-bounces at wsis-gov.org
> [mailto:gov-bounces at wsis-gov.org] On Behalf
> Of Louis Pouzin
> Sent: October 11, 2007 4:07 AM
> To: linguistk at googlegroups.com; gov at wsis-gov.org
> Subject: [Gov 93] internet cyrillique en gestation -
> internet localisation
> marching on
> 
> Picked on the grapevine.
> 
> *Russia will create independent Cyrillic WEB.
> 
> Translated from the original Russian article
> authored by Konstantin
> Getmansky at Russias premier newspaper web-site at
> <http://dp.ru/msk/news/hitech/2007/07/26/229939/
> 
> /(Note: A few days after the announcement below by
> President Putin at
> the Security Council meeting of the Russian
> Federation, further
> Russian language press reports appeared stating that
> the Security
> committee within the Russian Duma (parliament) had
> publicly enodorsed
> Putin's initiative)
> 
> /*Vladimir Putin
> At the latest session of Security Council of the
> Russian Federation
> its been declared that by 2015 Russia will become
> one of the leaders
> of the global information space. This matter
> includes the creation in
> Russia of its own web.
> 
> Russian analogue of the Internet* will be completely
> independent from
> the traditional World Wide Web (www) and at first
> stage of the project
> is going to include the CIS countries. This
> information was received
> from a governmental source.
> 
> *There are several reasons for creation* of an
> independent network in
> Russia.
> 
> *Firstly*, there are reasons related to information
> safety and
> security. Today it is a matter of fact that Russian
> users are
> accessing the Internet via channels which are in the
> control of the US
> government. Experts say there is the potential for
> the US to block
> these channels in the hypothetical scenario of an
> adverse development
> in the bilateral relationship between Russia and
> USA.
> 
> *Secondly, at present only the US *is engaged in the
> process of making
> decisions relating to the distribution of domain
> names amongst all the
> countries. Thus in essence the US is operating and
> supervising all
> global Internet traffic.
> 
> *Two years ago *in Tunis at the United Nations World
> Summit of the
> Information Society (WSIS) the rights for making
> decisions relating to
> the distribution of domain names between the
> countries was reviewed
> for change but ultimately remained under the
> US-controlled
> organization - Internet Corporation for Assigned
> Names and Numbers
> (ICANN). This occurred against the will of the other
> countries such as
> Russia, India and China.
> 
> *At the same *Tunis *summit* the US senator -
> Republican Norm Kohlman
> - declared, that only the US can have a supervisory
> role over the
> Internet. He strongly rejected any idea for
> transferring any Internet
> authority to the United Nations. Further he labeled
> the United Nations
> as absolutely incompetent and corrupt.
> 
> *Thirdly, domain names* in the proposed independent
> Russian network
> will use a Cyrillic script. Those proposing this
> project say it will
> help to strengthen the influence of Russia in the
> CIS countries. They
> further say that it will also increase the status of
> the Russian
> language in the countries of Commonwealth
> territories.
> 
> It is not determined yet* what organizations will
> undertake* the
> creation of the Russian web and how much it will
> cost. Also it is not
> clear yet, how the Russian network will interact
> with the traditional
> World Wide Web.
> 
> *By the way, *a similar project of an independent
> computer network
> already exists in China and is in development in the
> Arabic countries.
> They have the same motives: safety, creation of an
> independent cyber
> space for their own language communities and the
> convenience of using
> of the Internet for their native language speakers.
> 
> Konstantin Getmansky
> The address/link of the article:
> <http://dp.ru/msk/news/hitech/2007/07/26/229939/>
> 
> 
> Reçu de la voix du réseau:
> - - -
> La Russie va créer une toile cyrillique indépendante
> Traduit de l'article original signé par Konstantin
> Getmansky dans le site
> d'un journal important, à:
> <http://dp.ru/msk/news/hitech/2007/07/26/229939/
> 
> /(Note: Quelques jours après l'annonce ci-dessous
> par le président Poutine à
> la réunion du Conseil de Sécurité de la Fédération
> de Russie, d'autres
> communiqués de presse ont indiqué que le comité de
> Sécurité de la Douma
> (parlement) de Russie a approuvé publiquement
> l'initiative de Poutine.)
> 
> /*Vladimir Putin
> Lors de la dernière session du Conseil de Sécurité
> de la Fédération de
> Russie il a été déclaré qu'en 2015 la Russie sera un
> des grands de l'espace
> global de l'information. Cette affaire inclut la
> création en Russie de sa
> propre Toile.
> 
> La version russe de l'Internet sera complètement
> indépendante du
> traditionnel  World Wide Web (www) et pour commencer
> le projet va inclure
> les pays de la CIS. Cette information provient d'une
> source gouvernementale.
> 
> Il y a plusieurs raisons pour créer un réseau
> indépendant en Russie.
> 
> * Tout d'abord, il y a des raisons relevant de la
> sûreté et de la sécurité
> de l'information. Aujourd'hui c'est un fait que les
> usagers russes accèdent
> à l'internet via des canaux qui sont sous le
> contrôle du gouvernement
> américain. Les experts disent qu'il est possible
> pour les US de bloquer ces
> canaux dans l'hypothèse d'un scénario d'une
> évolution hostile des relations
> bilatérales entre Russie et USA.
> 
> * Ensuite, actuellement les US sont engagés dans un
> processus de prise de
> décisions relatives à la distribution des noms de
> domaines entre tous les
> pays. Ainsi en fait les US effectuent et supervisent
> tout le trafic global
> de l'internet.
> 
> 
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