Presentation by Dr. Govind at APRICOT 2019 on Thursday, 28 February 2019.

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Cooperation SIG Report
APNIC Annual Member Meeting
Thursday, 28 February 2019
Chair: Dr Govind
Co-Chair: Bikram Shrestha

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Chair Election
• Four nominations were received by the Secretariat.
• Dr Rajesh R, Dr Govind , Joy Chan, Venkatraman
• APNIC Secretariat conducted Coop SIG Chair election
• Joy Chan was elected by higher no of count of votes
• New Chair will serve a 2-year term beginning next APNIC
meeting
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Agenda- Speakers
• Internet Content Blocking and Filtering – Challenges
and Way Forward
• Welcoming Remarks – Dr Govind
• Bikram Shrestha - Status in Nepal
• Akinori Maemura – Case Study, Japan
• Sumon Ahmed Sabir – Technical approach
• Rajnesh Singh – Wider consultation and educating the Government
• Satish Babu- End user perspective
• Open MIC – Q&A
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Internet Content Blocking and Filtering-
Challenges and way Forward
• Enormous amount of content creation in all facets of human
activities viz social , political, economic ,entertainment etc.
• Triggered fake news, hate speeches, malicious and abusive
content.
• Internet an open, globally connected and needs no permission to
communicate and create innovative applications and content.
• What kind of content needs to flow in platforms, which type
needs to be blocked/ filtered and what norms/ policies to
followed.
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Bikram Shrestha
• ISPs and NSPs have different types of Challenges like No judicial authorization,
Overarching order from the Ministry in Nepal.
• No data protection laws or transparent mechanism for blocking or filtering.
Provision of notice and take down in the law.
• Need for effective policy in consultation with individual from all stakeholder of society
including the private sector and relevant government Ministry.
• Is blocking and filtering is an answer when most of the thing is accessible through VPN/
IPFS/ Google translate ?
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Akinori Maemura –Japanese case study
• Rise of Manga-Mura the piracy site of Manga (2017)
• Cabinet decided to have anti-piracy measures (2018)
• Task-Force formed to take countermeasures
• Members divided –pro and against the blocking-no report
• Secrecy of Communication be not violated-Article 21
• Longer term measures to contain the piracy like DRM,
moral education , enforcement of good content etc..
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Sumon Ahmed Sabir – Technical approach
• Child Online Protection , Religious Believe , Cultural Taste ,
Political Motivation , Fake News
• Happens at National, ISP, Local and End user
• Prefix Filtering URL/URI Filtering , DPI , Starvation of
Bandwidth , Destination IP , DNS based Filtering ,
Shutdown / Denial of Access
• Technologies evolving every moment. Can we solve these
issues by filtering or Blocking?
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Rajnesh Singh
• Power shift from political class to Internet
• Root cause comes attempting to controlling Internet
• Dialogue needs to happen with governments and need to
educate them continuously why it doesn't actually work.
• ISOC has done a Child Online policies , mapping and
report –Wide variation in AP region-age, definition etc.
• Need for transparency & consultation process for any
blocking and filtering
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Satish Babu – End user perspective
• What basically is content blocking, filtering and censoring? Limiting access
to the content but not its physical removal
• May be based on Illegal content, pornography, hate speech, copyright etc –
highly variable and subjective
• Most of the technical solutions ultimately undermine the security and
stability of the internet because of unintended consequences and side
effects. End user is impacted badly.
• solutions exist to bypass or to sidestep, but there are implications of cost,
performance, conflict with law enforcement agencies.
• There's a need for consultative processes by the Government to take the
citizens and civil society organisations into confidence.
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Summary
• Internet content blocking & filtering is a reality now.
• There is a wide variation in type and variety of the content
depending upon the context and how we define it.
• Need to work with conflicting requirements of users, service
providers, technical, network community, policymakers from the
point of view of compliance, Specially with the Governments.
• Manila principles are quite relevant in this context.
• Way forward may be to have a education ,dialogue,
collaboration, cooperation within the multi stakeholder
environment.
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Thank You

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