Roskomnadzor plans to change the approach to blocking sites

The Russian regulator is going to change its own approach to blocking banned sites, according to Izvestia . Thus, the department plans to determine how to lock the resource, depending on the specific situation.

The reason for the revision of its own policy Roskomnadzor calls the problem in which during the blocking law-abiding Internet resources, which turned out to be the offender at the same IP address, suffer. For the legalization of new methods of work, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has already developed amendments to the law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”.

According to the official representative of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelyonsky, the prepared amendments to the draft law are aimed at unifying and defining uniform requirements for telecom operators to block access to prohibited Internet resources. Also, the document will contain the form of an information message on access restriction.
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“Now telecom operators choose their own ways to restrict access. In some cases, there is a “by-pass blocking” of resources that do not contain prohibited information. Ways to restrict access are not always optimal in terms of the stability of communication networks, ensuring the rights of users, do not always take into account new technologies used to disseminate information on the Internet, ”said Ampelonsky.

Alexey Korolyuk, the head of the hosting provider and registrar of Reg.ru domains, noted that now up to a thousand resources can be located on one IP address. As a result, blocking of one site by IP-address leads to the destruction of all the rest.

Such methods have already led to incidents in the past. So, in 2013, due to the blocking of the banned site by its IP address from Rostelecom, some of the services of Yandex were not available to the subscribers of the provider for 23 minutes. At the same time, expectedly, Yandex did not receive any preliminary notifications from Rostelecom, about which representatives of the Internet giant told in a company blog on Habré.

Earlier, some telecom operators have already refused such a blocking mechanism. Back in May 2014, the Vedomosti edition reported that Rostelecom refuses the practice of blocking banned sites by IP address. Then the operator introduced a system of restricting access to the site by URL. The implication was that this would avoid accidental blocking or provide an opportunity to restrict access only to individual pages with prohibited information. This system works correctly only if the HTTP protocol is used. In total, according to Roskomsvoboda , almost 1.3 million sites are blocked in Russia.