Expert: Control over internet traffic is regress - Armenia unlikely to resort to IT

YEREVAN, February 12. /ARKA/. Control over Internet traffic is regress, and Armenia is unlikely to resort to it, Bagrat Yengibaryan, the head of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, told ARKA News Agency. 

Russia’s Vedomosti media resource reported Thursday referring to its sources that the Russian communications ministry has prepared a bill to set governmental control over Internet traffic in Russia’s territory to shield Runet from outside attacks. 

The bill proposes to create a state system for monitoring the usage of Internet global resource addressing and global identifiers (DNS and IP addresses).

This system is also designed to track the work of critical elements of Runet infrastructure.
“Control over Internet traffic is not desirable at all, since it hinders free reception of information,” Yengibaryan said. “It is acceptable only if it solves security problems.”

He said that Iran, Saudi Arabia and some other countries filter Internet traffic.  

Yengibaryan also said that the Russia-set control over Internet traffic will have absolutely no impacts on Armenia, since the latter is a part of the world, not Russian Internet network.. -0----

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16:28 02/12/2016