TunIXP workshop, Session 3, Tunis 30-04-2013 Towards the Development of TunIXP in a New Challenging Internet Governance Environment in Tunisia

1. Towards the Development of TunIXP in a New
Challenging Internet Governance Environment
in Tunisia
Moez Chakchouk, CEO of ATI
22ndEuropean Internet Exchange
Association Forum
14 – 16 April 2013, Hamburg, Germany,

2. Key events: Regulatory environment
evolution
 Before 1995: Telecom totally controlled by the Government/Administration.
 1995: Creation of Tunisie Telecom as a government establishment.
 April 1996: Creation of ATI, the Tunisian Internet Agency.
 Company owned partially by Tunisie Telecom but totally controlled by the Government,
 Central Internet Authority: Everything related to internet is within the framework of ATI,
 1997 & 2000: Internet market opening to competition: starting with 5 private
ISPs.
 2001: Telecom. Act (law n°2001—1) and creation of INT as Regulation
Authority.
 2002 – 2012 : Telecom Market Liberalization : 3 operators with fixed and
mobile 2G/3G Licenses and 5 ISPs
 Jan. – Feb. 2013: Launch of TunIXP and Affiliation to Euro-IX as a remote
member.
 April 2013: Amendment of the Telecom. Act and introduction of IXP related
language.
 ........ 2013: An underway reform to restructure ATI.
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3. Before the revolution #14Jan
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#Ammar404
#Censorship
#Surveillance
#CyberPolice
#...
 ENEMY of internet despite the huge work done by
high skilled engineer operating an IP transit network
available for all ISPs in TN.
 UNCLEAR role and a lot of tensions with the civil
society.
 LACK of Transparency and openness to civil
society.

4. After the revolution #14Jan: A lot of Change
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#Netfreedom
#TunIXP
#Privacy
#Mirror.tn
#Innovation
 Clarify the role of ATI and its relation with the
government.
 Stop net censorship and encourage online
freedom.
 Support of the multi-stakeholder IG.
 Promote e-content hosting and the build of
private datacenters.
 Foster partnership for innovation.
 Create TunIXP: The 1st IXP in the Maghreb
Arab.
 Encourage Tunisian cctld .tn and .
 Promote the 1st Tunisian open source mirror.
 Contribute to the internet regulatory reform.
 Modify the economic model for the provision
of IP transit services.
#Openness
#transparency
#TunIGF

5. Existing IXP/IP Transit infrastructure
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 Until Sept. 2012: All internet
traffic is routed via ATI router and
via a unique ASN (AS 2609)
operated by TT.
 Oct. 2012: Orange started
routing its internet traffic via its
own IP transit gateway
(AS37492)
 Jan. 2013: Launch of TunIXP as
there is no regulatory obligations
in the license to route internet
trafic via ATI infrastructure.
 Feb. 2013: Host of a L-root DNS
Server, the 1st in the Maghreb
Arab Region.
 …

6. Reshaping the ATI infrastructure
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 Creating a cost-based Layer 2 platform for TunIXP operated by ATI but
governed by a group of members (operators, ISPs, DataCenters, etc.),
 Transforming the Layer 3 infrastructure in order to provide IP Transit
Services for?
TT
AS 2609
OT
AS 37492
Meninx
AS 37492
ATI
AS 37551
TT Topnet OT Tunet GNet
Hexabyt
e
CNI CCK CIMSP CNTE
Tunisian
a
ICANN
AS 20144

7. Thanks …
moez.chakchouk@ati.tn − @mchakchouk
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