Bill on the autonomous operation of Runet was submitted to the State Duma on December 14, 2018, and in February . Authors: Senator Lyudmila Bokova, Senator Andrei Klishas and Deputy Andrei Lugovoy.
A number of amendments were prepared for the document for the second reading, including one very important one. Telecom operators' costs for the purchase and maintenance of equipment will be compensated from the budget. About it one of the authors of the bill, Senator Lyudmila Bokova.
As you know, the bill imposes new obligations on telecom operators and owners of traffic exchange points and gives additional powers to Roskomnadzor.
In particular, telecom operators are obliged to:
- Follow the routing rules established by Roskomnadzor.
- Adjust routing as required by Roskomnadzor.
- When resolving domain names, use software and hardware approved by Roskomnadzor, as well as the national domain name system.
- Use only IXPs from the IXP registry.
- Promptly report to Roskomnadzor information about your network addresses, routes of telecommunication messages, the software and hardware used, necessary for resolving domain names and the infrastructure of communication networks.
It is proposed to supplement Article 66.1 of the Law "On Communications", including the following paragraph:
“In cases of threats to the integrity, stability and security of operation on the territory of the Russian Federation of the Internet network and the public communications network may be carried out centralized management of a public communications network federal executive body exercising control and supervision functions in the field of media, mass communications, information technology and communications, in the manner determined by the Government of the Russian Federation, including, inter alia, measures to eliminate threats to the integrity, stability and security of operation on the territory of the Russian Federation Federation of the Internet and public communication networks.
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Centralized management of a public communication network is carried out by managing technical means of countering threats and (or) by transmitting mandatory instructions to telecom operators, owners or holders of technological communication networks, as well as other persons having an autonomous system number.”
As stated in the explanatory note, “the draft federal law was prepared taking into account the aggressive nature of the US National Cyber Security Strategy adopted in September 2018.”
In December, the “Communications and IT” working group of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation on the text of the bill. According to experts, one-time costs alone could reach 25 billion rubles. for research and development work, creating and maintaining a register of traffic exchange points, expanding the staff of structures subordinate to Roskomnadzor and conducting exercises. In addition, compensation to telecom operators will be required in case of network disruptions, the risk of which is assessed by industry participants as high. They should be provided for in the federal budget at a level of up to 10% of the market volume, that is, 134 billion rubles. in year.
It was initially assumed that the implementation of the law would not require budgetary funds. But it soon became clear that this was not so. This year, the Russian government published a review of the bill criticizing the financial and economic justification, which is given in the accompanying note to it. The criticism is due to the fact that the financial and economic justification “does not define the sources and procedure for fulfilling a new type of expenditure obligations.”
“We know one thing for now - that such [budget] funds will be required, and the costs are currently being assessed. Clearly, we need to imagine them in dynamics as well. Because any control systems, protection systems are tied, among other things, to the load - and to the dynamics of the load and network throughput, and it is now growing almost explosively, and every year there is a very significant increase in traffic and power needs,” - February 5, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Maxim Akimov.
And now we see how the authors solve the problem. If they had initially declared that the bill would require significant budget expenditures, then the document could have been deployed in the economic committee (theoretically) - it would not have reached the State Duma at all. But they said that isolating the Runet would not require any budget expenditures. The bill was adopted in the first reading. And now the authors are amending that this initiative will still be financed from the budget.
Compensation from the budget is “the only option,” explained Senator Bokova. Otherwise, telecom operators will have to bear additional costs. “Since the technical equipment that is planned for installation will be purchased from the budget, the maintenance of these devices should also be reimbursed from the budget,” she said.
Exemption from liability
Another amendment concerns the release of providers from liability to customers if network failures occur due to the operation of “special means of countering threats.”
Exemption from liability was provided for in the bill from the very beginning. But it was unclear who would compensate users for possible losses in this case. Senator Bokova proposes to charge these expenses to the state budget. In her opinion, if the possibility of compensation for losses at the expense of the state is provided, then “officials will think twice before deciding to intervene in the network.”
“Before you turn on the switch, think ten times about how this will affect networks, whether sensitive services will be affected - telemedicine, payments, data transfer, where this happens via the Internet,” the senator said.
Based on the last words of the senator (about the switch), one can make the assumption that the system is being introduced not for protective, but for active actions on the part of the authorities.
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Source: habr.com