Something like this probably thinks most of the participants in yesterday's rally "against the isolation of the Internet."
All these 6.15 or 30 thousand participants probably imagine that one morning they will find themselves in Cheburnet and will not be able to go to Google and Meduza. Oh oh oh! How so! We urgently need to go to the rally, otherwise the content for social networks has run out.
Do you at least know the essence of this law, as opposed to stupid hipsters and liberals?
The essence of the bill
One of the main provisions of the adopted draft law "On the Sovereign Internet" is the creation of a national system for obtaining information on domain names and network addresses. An ordinary Internet user, when working with the Internet, usually does not even suspect how this or that domain name is formed and how it actually looks.
A DNS request of the highest, zero level, is sent to a specialized domain name server, on which all country zones are registered, including the ru segment.
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Subsequently, the DNS request gets to one of the Russian servers: it processes the domains of the “ru zone” corresponding to Russia, where the location of the riafan domain is determined. Finally, the server that stores the internal information of our site processes the complex name of a particular news page and uses the web data transfer protocol - in the considered HTTPS address.
It is easy to understand that without the highest-level DNS server that is responsible for the ill-fated invisible "point", the request to the global network will not work - your computer simply will not know where to look for the "ru zone" itself. Of course, no one will prevent you from typing the direct IP address of the site you are requesting in the address bar - but the entire system of convenient web search, tied to alphabetic domain names, will stop working.
At the same time, the technical ability to "take the zero point from Russia" is recognized even by ICANN - this is an international corporation that is responsible for the formation of a domain name in accordance with an IP address on a global scale. The fact is that ICANN is registered as a corporation in the United States, and therefore its entry-level servers, although they may be located outside the United States, nevertheless obey all the requirements of American legislators.
Until now, however, such global "zero-level outages" have not happened - the organization has not taken domain zones from any states, and the US authorities have not applied prohibitive measures against domain broadcasting.
However, you should not delude yourself about this: as recently as December 2018, Monotype Imaging, the copyright holder of the popular fonts (typefaces) Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New, which are included in the "free" set of popular operating systems, such as Windows, banned them use in Russian government agencies. As the reason, the company indicated the sanctions imposed by the United States against Russia, although, of course, no specific restrictions on fonts in the sanctions were formally spelled out.
How can Russia protect its segment of the Web?
The adopted bill provides for the creation of a national system for obtaining information on domain names or network addresses. It means "a set of interconnected software and hardware designed to store and receive information about network addresses in relation to domain names, including those included in the Russian national domain zone, as well as authorization when resolving domain names." In such a florid way, the law formulates the creation and support of its "zero point" for Russia, which will be able to provide the initial binding of DNS names if any unwanted changes occur to ICANN's servers.
At the same time, of course, the State Duma is not going to "disconnect" Russia from the Internet - China followed exactly the same path in its time. He duplicated on his national territory all the critical systems of the World Wide Web, but, nevertheless, retained all the necessary contacts with the outside world.
Those. like a fool understands that these are logical actions of the state in response to sanctions from the United States. The regulator is trying to stop the threat to national security.
But not everything is so good here. There is, of course, a negative side.
There are big risks of deterioration in the quality of access to the Internet, its slowdown due to the fact that the signal will not travel by optimal routes. The equipment itself for filtering traffic will also slow down the work, all this will affect the quality of the signal for end users and for all companies located inside the Russian Internet.
Do not forget about the economic component - it is not clear where the money will eventually come from: either from the budget, or from a telecom operator, or from everyone at once. The total costs of telecom operators and Internet providers are already estimated at more than 100 billion with an annual increase in this amount, since both the volume of traffic and the number of new Internet services are growing.
Ultimately, this financial burden will fall on the shoulders of users and may be reflected in an increase in the cost of services, artificial limitation of the volume of consumed traffic or a decrease in the speed of signal transmission to the subscriber.
However, we are not talking about any isolation of the Internet at all. Or do you disagree?