[governance] Pakistan: National URL Filtering & Blocking System.

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Thanks for this Shahzad. Very relevant for next week's panel. The
transparency of putting out a public call for bids for filtering and
blocking systems is quite remarkable :)

It shows confidence, it sends a strong public message, and it will also
encourage competition and innovation in the internet industry to come up
with 'smarter' ways of filtering.  All very disturbing.

Anriette


On 23/02/12 06:14, Shahzad Ahmad wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>  
> 
> Forwarding for your kind information, the little news and the grand
> plans of Government of Pakistan to build Great Firewall.
> 
>  
> 
> We believe that it coincides well with the UN’s Experts Panel on 29th
> Februaryand the panelists may like to raise this?
> 
>  
> 
> RFP is attached and here is the link:
> 
>  
> 
> http://ictrdf.org.pk/RFP-%20URL%20Filtering%20&%20Blocking.pdf
> <http://ictrdf.org.pk/RFP-%20URL%20Filtering%20&%20Blocking.pdf>
> 
>  
> 
> *An excerpt from the RFP: *
> 
> “/Each box should be able to handle a block list of up to *50 million
> URLs* (concurrent unidirectional filtering capacity) with processing
> delay of *not more than 1 milliseconds*."/
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> Best wishes and regards
> 
>  
> 
> Shahzad Ahmad
> 
> www.bytesforall.pk <http://www.bytesforall.pk>
> 
>  
> 

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