Russian Security Council will discuss the disconnect from the Internet

The following week, several activities are planned with the participation of high-ranking Russian officials on the work of the Russian segment of the Internet in emergencies. In particular, this topic will be discussed on Monday, September 22 at a meeting of the Security Council with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Friday, September 19, the newspaper «Vedomosti».

Eventually it will take a few solutions that strengthen the sovereignty of the Russian segment of the global network. So, may be introduced a special procedure of Internet governance, providing the ability to disable Russia from the global network.

Testing conducted by the Ministry of Communications, showed that ðóíåò vulnerable, the newspaper said. Now discuss measures to minimize risks, including the possibility of temporarily disabling runeta from the outside world, confirmed the intelligence officer.





About permanent disabling of access to the international network of the question. However, the Russian operators will have to set up the equipment so that in the event of an emergency the Russian Internet can quickly disable the global.

Emergencies can be considered as acts of war, and, for example, serious protests in the country. One of the interlocutors "Vedomosti" recalled that in 2011, during the riots in Egypt, local authorities cut off the Internet and mobile communications throughout the country.

The second idea, which will discuss the officials - the transfer of functions to the State domain administrators, who now takes the public organization - Coordination Center for TLD RU (KC). This can take the Federal Communications Agency (Rossvyaz) subordinate the Ministry of Communications.

The council includes representatives of ministries of KC, but officials want to control the entire system of distribution of domain names in runet entirely, said one of the sources of the newspaper.

President's press secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Monday is scheduled operational meeting of members of the Security Council, but did not specify what issues will be discussed there.

lenta.ru

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