The government is setting up an internet scanning agency which will seek to monitor all web traffic passing through internet service providers in the country. The scanning agency to be called National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC), will issue ‘actionable alerts’ to government departments in cases of perceived security threats. … According to the minutes of ameeting Read more…

Google and facebook were warned yesterday that their websites can be “blocked” like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages. As a further development, the Government of India granted sanction to prosecute 19 other social networking websites, apart from Facebook and Google. The Read more…

The Delhi High Court on Thursday warned social networking site Facebook India and search engine Google India that websites can be “blocked” like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages. “Like China, we will block all such websites,” Justice Suresh Kait said while Read more…

(This is as posted in the Isoc Chennai mailing list) The last date for filing an application for this fellowship is July 20. Those with an interest in Internet and Internet Governance are encouraged to apply. NIXI Fellowship Programme National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) invites applications from qualified young Internet professionals from Academia, Industry, Read more…

Basic information about Internationalized Domain Names, is at the earlier post on IDN Reproduced below is an interview with Rajesh Aggarwal, Additional CEO of Nixi, as published in the ICANN blog: NIXI (National Internet eXchange of India), is the registry for .in [Nixi which will handle the country code .IN domain names as also the Read more…