China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Huawei and Chinese operators China Unicom and China Telecom have jointly proposed changes to the state of the Internet. As reported the newspaper Financial Times, the International Telecommunication Union (International Telecommunication Union, ITU) received a proposal to replace the TCP / IP protocol on the new - New IP.
According to the developers, New IP "better matches the current state of the Internet" and ideas about its development than the TCP / IP stack, which was developed almost half a century ago. In particular, New IP addresses will allow devices on different networks to communicate directly with each other, which should increase speed and reliability, better meeting the needs of such growing areas as self-driving cars and the Internet of things.
According to CNews, New IP implements a special "disconnect" algorithm (killswitch), which allows blocking all data coming from the network to a specific address or from it to the network. This can be done at any time, and this means that Internet regulators will not only be able to instantly turn off unwanted resources, but also block access to the Internet for specific people, literally calculating them by their IP address.
The move to New IP may also require authorization and authentication of both new Internet addresses and the people associated with them, according to Financial Times sources.
In other words, New IP implies a complete lack of anonymity and privacy on the Internet and resembles the global version of the Great Firewall of China, which blocks access to many international resources for Chinese residents.
ITU will consider PRC's proposal for New IP standardization at a conference tentatively scheduled for November 2020, unless the spread of coronavirus interferes with plans. There is a possibility that the majority of the conference participants will vote against the standardization of the Chinese protocol, and in this case, other representatives of all ITU member countries, whose number exceeded 190 at the time of publication of the material, will discuss the issue outside the conference.
New IP has already met with disapproval from one of the members of the Dutch delegation. In his opinion, the modern Internet owes its success to its "open nature" based on TCP / IP.
According to a Huawei spokesman, the new technology is “open to scientists and engineers around the world” and is intended solely to meet the technical requirements of an evolving digital landscape, not to provide control.
According to the developers, New IP "better matches the current state of the Internet" and ideas about its development than the TCP / IP stack, which was developed almost half a century ago. In particular, New IP addresses will allow devices on different networks to communicate directly with each other, which should increase speed and reliability, better meeting the needs of such growing areas as self-driving cars and the Internet of things.
According to CNews, New IP implements a special "disconnect" algorithm (killswitch), which allows blocking all data coming from the network to a specific address or from it to the network. This can be done at any time, and this means that Internet regulators will not only be able to instantly turn off unwanted resources, but also block access to the Internet for specific people, literally calculating them by their IP address.
The move to New IP may also require authorization and authentication of both new Internet addresses and the people associated with them, according to Financial Times sources.
In other words, New IP implies a complete lack of anonymity and privacy on the Internet and resembles the global version of the Great Firewall of China, which blocks access to many international resources for Chinese residents.
ITU will consider PRC's proposal for New IP standardization at a conference tentatively scheduled for November 2020, unless the spread of coronavirus interferes with plans. There is a possibility that the majority of the conference participants will vote against the standardization of the Chinese protocol, and in this case, other representatives of all ITU member countries, whose number exceeded 190 at the time of publication of the material, will discuss the issue outside the conference.
New IP has already met with disapproval from one of the members of the Dutch delegation. In his opinion, the modern Internet owes its success to its "open nature" based on TCP / IP.
According to a Huawei spokesman, the new technology is “open to scientists and engineers around the world” and is intended solely to meet the technical requirements of an evolving digital landscape, not to provide control.
