ITU has just approved a Deep Packet Inspection

On Monday, the introductory speech by Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Dubai began a two-week world communication top WCIT-12. G. Touré is the crowd more than 1000 government representatives from 130 different countries again explained that "the conference will not be talking about ITU's download its control over the Internet, but only on the strengthening of cooperation between governments and the Internet community, temeljujoči the common consensus and taking into account the desire of developing countries ". Similar words last week we heard from the mouth of our Minister Turk (it is not advisable to repair something that works).



It is therefore all the more surprising, well, worrying that ITU is the day after, of course, behind closed doors and quietly, approved international standard for deep packet inspection (DPI). On the basis of all future telecommunications equipment, if not, support filtering traffic based on the content, in particular type of traffic (as defined in the header). This will be odbrati web mail, skype telephone conversation or play poker, and they record, or block. them to do something useful otherwise. Moreover, the standard even mentions the possibility of a breakthrough encryption (https, ssl, IMAPS, etc..) In cases where the telecom operator "possessed keys". How exactly this will look like (Mandatory key escrow? SSL MITM proxies?) Is not yet clear, but it is clear that the ITU not their parent organization, despite the UN declaration to release what you do not have a lot of respect for the privacy of telecommunications. DPI without question looks at the contents of the conversation, not just "in some way less important" situation type who communicates with whom, and when (traffic data).

The procedure is standard: Y.2770 standard content remains closed to members of the ITU, working version (draft) are not available. Get a three year old initial report ITU-HP Study Group no. 13 for future internet networks, namely the author of the standard when it is just beginning to his work, and when the standard is still called Y.dpireq (DPI Requirements). From it are also included images that describe the functional specification for network devices. All this is so wonderfully consistent with the democratic deficit that this year is finally buried July acto, by the fact that stakeholders are again hidden in a warm place in Dubai, far from the reach of a larger number of protesters. And to control the internet are certainly concerns, regardless of its suitability for the organization or another disorder.