Tehran, YJC. Cyberspace Council says that an identification process is going to be required for users to connect to the internet in order to decide how their connections will be filtered.
Secretary of the Cyberspace Supreme Council said that a plan
has been proposed to further organize the way users in Iran connect to the
internet.
Mehdi Akhavan Behabadi said in a news conference on Wednesday
that with the new plan, users will need to identify themselves in order to be
able to connect to the internet "so that the filtering services could be offered
in a more classified way.”
The classifications will consider age and occupational
characteristics, he stated.
"For example,” he added "the access level for a researcher
or a businessman must be different from that of an adolescent or a student. The
executive aspects of the plan are currently under investigation in the National
Center for the Cyberspace.”
Akhavan also pointed to various projects mentioned by
officials and said "Projects such as ‘The Clean Internet’ and ‘The Islamic Google
Earth’ have not been considered in the Supreme Council on Cyberspace. The Islamic
Google Earth was mentioned by the Minister of Communications, but so far no
plan has been offered for it. Naturally we could talk about the issue only
after official correspondences are being made.
He also pointed out that the first operator for "cyber
health” is going to be operational and said that further certificates will be
issued for similar services.