Results of the 11th InAU and UA-IX Conference (Part 2)
The 11th conference of the Internet Association of Ukraine (IAU) and the Ukrainian Internet Exchange Network (UA-IX) was held in Sudak. In addition to discussing the overall development of the ICT market, the conference also addressed the state of the .UA domain, cooperation between law enforcement agencies and internet market participants, and the prospects for the development of the Ukrainian Internet Exchange Network (UA-IX).
The general sponsors of the conference were Telco, which supplies Extreme Networks equipment to Ukraine, and Megatrade.
InAU Board Member Oleksandr Olshansky analyzed the development of the .UA domain zone. He noted that the .UA domain was delegated in the interests of the Ukrainian internet community, while public domains within the .UA domain are delegated to administrators in the interests of specific groups within the Ukrainian internet community.
Thus, the primary purpose of the .UA domain and its public zones is to serve the interests of the Ukrainian internet community, and the primary function of the relevant administrators should be to identify and promote these interests. Current practice, unfortunately, is quite the opposite.
"Let's analyze what the Ukrainian internet community has gained over the past 10 years, not counting the approximately $10 million that has flowed out of the internet market to register useless trademarks? We've got a registration system that complies with 1996 standards, .UA domain rules that haven't changed since 2000, the perpetual rivalry between Hostmaster and everyone else, and a number of public domain administrators, each of whom arbitrarily imposes their own rules and laws that are in no way consistent with the very interests for which these domains were created," said Alexander Olshansky.
He noted that some public domain administrators are establishing new terms and conditions for their zones without proper discussion or compelling justification. Mr. Olshansky proposed holding a meeting of Ukrainian registrars to develop a unified procedure for amending the rules of the .UA domain and public domains in the .UA domain, as well as determining the administrators of public domains in the .UA zone.
According to Mr. Olshansky, the introduction of uniform procedures will allow for the creation of a unified system of interaction between registrars and administrators of public domains in Ukraine, as well as making the rules of these public domains consistent with the rules of the .UA domain.
In his report, Georgy Karpov, a member of the InAU advisory board, noted that the fight against cybercrime is becoming increasingly urgent today, and that solving this problem requires close cooperation between operators and law enforcement agencies.
"Based on global experience with similar work, we can say that three lines of such cooperation are visible. First, the consolidation of key areas of cooperation in the legislative framework. The second, in my opinion, is quite important: the creation of self-regulatory documents in the online environment. So-called codes of conduct for the internet community are becoming increasingly widespread in various countries. Another interesting approach is the conclusion of agreements between law enforcement agencies and internet service providers, as well as the internet community, on the fundamentals of cooperation. Some CIS and European countries have already taken this approach," said Georgy Karpov.
He proposed considering the possibility of creating joint documents between the SBU and the InAU, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the InAU, which would define the main areas of joint activity to combat cybercrime.
Association Board members Alexander Olshansky and Ivan Petukhov supported this proposal. Mr. Olshansky also suggested creating a joint document signed by at least representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Institute of Anti-Corruption of Ukraine. Mr. Petukhov, in turn, noted the need to develop a methodology that would define what information an operator can provide at the request of law enforcement (without court approval), the timeframe within which, and which official can request such information.
Serhiy Polischuk, technical administrator of the Ukrainian Internet Exchange Network (UA-IX), discussed the development prospects. He noted that the UA-IX network will provide its participants with access ports at speeds of up to 100 Gbps as early as 2011. He predicts that Ukraine will soon become one of the top five countries with the largest volume of aggregated domestic traffic.
Sergey Polischuk called on UA-IX participants to actively participate in the implementation of the IPv6 protocol in connection with the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses in 2011, and also suggested that network participants use new UA-IX capabilities: multicast, Root DNS, etc.
