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

[Shahzad Ahmad]

Thanks Anriette for the kind message. 

We think that this advertisement is just to complete the bidding and
documentary process as it is required now otherwise, competing parties end
up in the court. The system would have already been in place by now... who
knows?

Right now, we are working on our public statement against the proposed
system. Will post it here and send to you separately.

Best wishes
Shahzad


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[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Anriette
Esterhuysen
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:47 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Pakistan: National URL Filtering & Blocking
System.

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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