towards the development of tunixp in a new challenging internet governance environment in tunisia
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TunIXP workshop, Session 3, Tunis 30-04-2013 Towards the Development of TunIXP in a New Challenging Internet Governance Environment in TunisiaTRANSCRIPT
Towards the Development of TunIXP in a New Challenging Internet Governance Environment in TunisiaMoez Chakchouk, CEO of ATI
22nd European Internet Exchange Association Forum 14 – 16 April 2013, Hamburg, Germany,
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Key events: Regulatory environment evolution Before 1995: Telecom totally controlled by the
Government/Administration.
1995: Creation of Tunisie Telecom as a government establishment.
April 1996: Creation of ATI, the Tunisian Internet Agency. Company owned partially by Tunisie Telecom but totally controlled by the
Government,
Central Internet Authority: Everything related to internet is within the framework of ATI,
1997 & 2000: Internet market opening to competition: starting with 5 private ISPs.
2001: Telecom. Act (law n°2001—1) and creation of INT as Regulation Authority.
2002 – 2012 : Telecom Market Liberalization : 3 operators with fixed and mobile 2G/3G Licenses and 5 ISPs
Jan. – Feb. 2013: Launch of TunIXP and Affiliation to Euro-IX as a remote member.
April 2013: Amendment of the Telecom. Act and introduction of IXP related language.
........ 2013: An underway reform to restructure ATI.
The 22nd Euro-IX Forum, April 14 – 16, 2013
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Before the revolution #14Jan
The 22nd Euro-IX Forum, April 14 – 16, 2013
#Ammar404 #Censorship
#Surveillance#CyberPolice#...
ENEMY of internet despite the huge work done by high skilled engineer operating an IP transit network available for all ISPs in TN.
UNCLEAR role and a lot of tensions with the civil society.
LACK of Transparency and openness to civil society.
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After the revolution #14Jan: A lot of Change
The 22nd Euro-IX Forum, April 14 – 16, 2013
#Netfreedom
#TunIXP
#Privacy
#Mirror.tn
#Innovation
Clarify the role of ATI and its relation with the government.
Stop net censorship and encourage online freedom.
Support of the multi-stakeholder IG. Promote e-content hosting and the
build of private datacenters. Foster partnership for innovation. Create TunIXP: The 1st IXP in the
Maghreb Arab. Encourage Tunisian cctld .tn and .تونس Promote the 1st Tunisian open source
mirror.
Contribute to the internet regulatory reform.
Modify the economic model for the provision of IP transit services.
#Openness
#transparency
#TunIGF
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Existing IXP/IP Transit infrastructure
The 22nd Euro-IX Forum, April 14 – 16, 2013
Until Sept. 2012: All internet traffic is routed via ATI router and via a unique ASN (AS 2609) operated by TT.
Oct. 2012: Orange started routing its internet traffic via its own IP transit gateway (AS37492)
Jan. 2013: Launch of TunIXP as there is no regulatory obligations in the license to route internet trafic via ATI infrastructure.
Feb. 2013: Host of a L-root DNS Server, the 1st in the Maghreb Arab Region.
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Reshaping the ATI infrastructure
The 22nd Euro-IX Forum, April 14 – 16, 2013
Creating a cost-based Layer 2 platform for TunIXP operated by ATI but governed by a group of members (operators, ISPs, DataCenters, etc.),
Transforming the Layer 3 infrastructure in order to provide IP Transit Services for?TT
AS 2609
OTAS 37492
MeninxAS 37492
ATIAS 37551
TT Topnet OT Tunet GNetHexaby
te CNI CCK CIMSP CNTE
Tunisiana
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