They want to gather information to make changes to a proposed law in the Russian Parliament in December 2018, which authorizes the project that Russia's Internet service providers must guarantee the independence of the Russian Internet in case of foreign interference, allowing the country to be separated from the global Internet.
They point out that telecom companies must be able to redirect all Russian Internet traffic to exchange points approved or managed by the Russian communications control agency Roskomnazor, so that everything within their borders.
This body will be responsible for checking traffic to prevent prohibited content and ensuring that no information is sent to servers outside the country where it can be intercepted.
At the moment they did not say how long they would take the tests, but believed that before April 1. The experiment was already approved at a working session of the Information Security Working Group at the end of January, and it seems that all ISPs were in agreement with the objectives of this law.
In 2017, it was said that one of Russia's goals was to direct 95% of all Internet traffic locally by 2020, and this experiment is part of this goal. To achieve this, they have a local backup of the DNS, which was first tested in 2014 and again in 2018.
At the moment they did not say how long they would take the tests, but believed that before April 1. The experiment was already approved at a working session of the Information Security Working Group at the end of January, and it seems that all ISPs were in agreement with the objectives of this law.
In 2017, it was said that one of Russia's goals was to direct 95% of all Internet traffic locally by 2020, and this experiment is part of this goal. To achieve this, they have a local backup of the DNS, which was first tested in 2014 and again in 2018.
