Since signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute for Information Security Issues (IISI) last year, the relationship between ICANN and Russia continues to strengthen. At a meeting in Garmisch, Germany, Russian high-level officials dedicated a whole day to relations with ICANN. The Third International Partnership Among State, Business Community and Civil Society in Ensuring [...]

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Press release in Russian about the continuous cooperation between ICANN and the .ru ccTLD Coordination Center (in Russian):

ICANN и Координационный центр домена RU (Администратор национального домена верхнего уровня .RU), начиная с 2007 года, проводят совместную работу, направленную на расширение представления российских интернет-пользователей о развитии Интернета и обеспечение возможностей для участия в этом процессе.

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ICANN опубликовала официальное заключение, касающееся Промежуточного обзора (Midterm Review). В этом документе содержатся итоги разработки соглашения JPA (Joint Partner Agreement), которое должно быть заключено между корпорацией и Министерством торговли США.

В опубликованном заключении (pdf) говорится о том, что окончательная версия JPA станет очередным шагом на пути к независимости ICANN и выводу системы доменных имен (DNS) из-под контроля Правительства США.

There have been some reports in the past few days about possible “division” of the Internet in Russia, tied in with speculation that the forthcoming Cyrillic domain names will be used to grant the Russian government more control over its citizens. The source of this speculation appears to be an article published in UK newspaper The Guardian. That article was then reproduced in a number of Russian news articles, most of them quoting a direct translation published by SecurityLab.

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Some of the Russian media reported in July 2007 that the Russian government plans to build its own Internet, independent of the World Wide Web, which will service Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries, such as Armenia, Moldova and the Ukraine. A number of articles from DP.ru (“Russia to build its own [...]

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On 25 September, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey and myself (as the regional manager) visited Moscow at the invitation of the Russian Minister of Information Technologies and Communications. While over there we were also scheduled to meet some of the .ru Board members, the .su administrators from the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN), the Institute [...]

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In a little over a month (September 10-12), IT professionals from around the world will meet at the Vatutinki residence near Moscow, Russia. Among them will be, from ICANN, Theresa Swinehart, Tina Dam and Veni Markovski, as well as Fred Baker and Patrik Faltstrom (CISCO/IETF), Jaap Akkerhuis (DNSsec/NLnet Labs), Timothy Lowe (RIPE), and Lynn St. [...]

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There’s a new law on data protection in Russia, and under its provisions, information for web site owners should not be accessible online. The .ru WHOIS database has almost three years to fulfill the law requirements (until January 1, 2010), but Ru-Center, (largest registrar for .ru), says they have discussed the issue with RIPN (the [...]

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On April 5-6 several of us were in Moscow, at the international conference on security and trust. The conference was organized by RANS – The Russian Association for Networks and Services.

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