Internet Society (ISOC)

ISOC - the independent international non-profit organization founded in 1992. Primary activity concentrates in three areas: development of technical standards, development of rules and politician of regulation of the Internet, educational projects.

Business in Russia

The ISOC Russia Chapter non-profit partnership is the Russian department of the International organization of Internet Society.

2018: Cooperation with Qrator Labs

On December 24, 2018 it became known that Qrator Labs, specializing in counteraction DDoS-to the attacks and ensuring availability internet- resources, announced signing of the Memorandum of cooperation with the international professional organization Internet Society promoting open development and evolution of the Internet. Increasing the level of security of global routing and monitoring of interceptions of traffic between telecom operators will become the purpose of cooperation of the organizations.

Internet Society works on development of an initiative of MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security) directed to reduction of number of failures of routing and the incidents connected with interception of traffic. Participants of the MANRS program are more than 100 telecom operators and points of exchange of traffic which undertook obligations for prevention of distribution of abnormal routes.

The system of collecting and data analysis is the cornerstone of the MANRS project. Within the Memorandum of cooperation of Qrator Labs will provide Internet Society data on interceptions of traffic and other anomalies using service of global monitoring of the Internet Qrator.Radar. On the basis of the data obtained from Qrator.Radar and also other services for monitoring of network security, Internet Society will be able to make the analytical reporting under the arising incidents and to inform operators on anomalies which affect quality of work of network services not only in their networks, but also on a global scale.

Interceptions of traffic and other anomalies of routing begin to create more and more problems both for telecom operators, and for end users. If earlier errors were the cause, then for the last year the hacker activity for the purpose of interception, the analysis of traffic gains steam. Therefore it is so important to level risks of BGP even before emergence of problems. We are glad to work on increasing the level of security of routing together with the international organization of Internet Society, providing data of our Qrator.Radar service for program implementation of MANRS and ensuring control of observance of regulations of safe routing by all participants of an initiative. Alexander Azimov, network architect of Qrator Labs

Within an initiative MANRS Internet Society works on the MANRS Observatory application. The purpose of Observatory is quantitative determination of degree of readiness of network operators for observance of requirements of MANRS and also level of "hygiene" of a system of global routing in general. It is the project which will provide a possibility of the analysis of long-term trends of development of security of a system of routing of the Internet, determinations of problematic regions, countries and networks and also will strengthen reputation of an initiative of MANRS, having enhanced its transparency. The observatory uses the existing projects on measurement and monitoring of network security on the Internet. Qrator is an important partner of this project, providing data of the Radar system on incidents and anomalies in the global system of routing. Andrey Robachevsky, manager of the technology Internet Society programs

2013: Confirmation of powers and registration of the Russian department

On April 8, 2013 ISOC confirmed officially powers of the Russian department, and on June 14 NP Internet Community was registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Among priority tasks of the Russian department of ISOC: development of infrastructure of the Internet, harmonization of the relations of the state, society and business in questions of regulation of the Internet, development of the Cyrillic network segment and system of Internet addressing in Russian.

In Russia ISOC combines efforts of many people not indifferent to the fate of the Internet, opens new opportunities for participation in global processes, allows to look in a new way at the most current problems in development of the Russian network segment.

The Russian ISOC is a link between developers of standards and technologies, the state, the commercial organizations and users of the Russian segment the Internet. A main objective of ISOC – the open Internet which is regulated for the benefit of users.

Among priority tasks of the Russian department of ISOC: development of infrastructure of the Internet, harmonization of the relations of the state, society and business in questions of regulation of the Internet, development of the Cyrillic network segment and system of Internet addressing in Russian. The Russian ISOC is going to support actively the scientific and educational projects focused on development of the Internet.

2012: Initiative of creation of the Russian department of ISOC

The initiative of creation of the Russian department of ISOC was offered on March 13, 2012 within the 43rd ICANN conference in Costa Rica by founders of Webnames.ru Sergey Sharikov and Alexey Sozonov and got support of many authoritative figures of Runet.

In April, 2012 the meeting of an initiative group of ISOC Russia with the manager on development of the European bureau ISOC Jacek Gajewski took place.

History

2019: Sale of registry of Public Interest Registry (PIR)

On November 14, 2019 it became known that the international professional organization Society of the Internet (Internet Society – ISOC) and Ethos Capital Investors investment company was announced the conclusion of the transaction within which the registry of Public Interest Registry (PIR) associated with ISOC will be purchased by Ethos Capital Investors. The amount which will be received by ISOC is not disclosed, is going to close the deal in 1 quarter 2020. Read more here.

2013: More than 90 departments of ISOC

For October, 2013 ISOC integrates 145 organizations and 65 thousand individual users. In the different countries more than 90 departments of ISOC work.