Urgent help required on possible Internet law in Bulgaria
Yuri Demchenko demch at cad.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua
Fri Feb 27 17:51:42 CET 1998
Veni Markovski wrote: > > > area. Domain registry has not been involved, and would not wish to > > be. > > it's not a problem here, too. The registry is a subject to other > discussion (recent views are published at > http://www.ibm.com/OtherVoices/Levine/February1398155624.phtml > > > I am afraid I haven't made it clear or you have misunderstood. The > Bulgarian government wants to licens the Internet usage and services. > They also intend to regulate the content of the information being placed > in the web. > I can tell you a story about situation in Ukraine. Internet and all possible data communication services were subject for license in Ukraine. And surely all major ISPs in Ukraine were forced to obtain/pay for such license. The same situation was expected with Internet telephony. But good news came from Europe and from Ukrainian Government at the same time. The European Commission defined that Internet telephony is not a subject for licensing. Begining this year in Ukraine licensing for all communication services (including data communication, Satellite, etc.) except voice telephony was canceled. I haven't time to investigate the reason for such positive shift but think that it's not even forthcoming Parlamentary election in March. But it was principal demand for Ukraine's entering into EC in liberalisation and harminisation of regulatory basis in Telecommunications. Next steps are expected in canceling State monopoly in Communications area. >> LEGISLATION AND POLICIES >> The European Commission has adopted a notice defining its policy >> on voice telephony in respect of telephony over the Internet. >> The notice considers that Internet telephony is not subject to >> the regulation applying to voice telephony until certain >> conditions are met. The provision of Internet telephony may >> therefore not be subject to European Union Member States >> individual licensing procedures but at the most to declaration >> procedures >> (http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg04/lawliber/en/voice.htm) > > At the end of the day, your legislators are in charge in your > > country. You have to recognise this, and restrict your own efforts > > to area where you can make a difference. > > it's a question of legislature, yes, but the government wants to regulate > it through the local Committee for post and telecommunications, and not > through the law. That's the dangerous part of it. The question of the > domain registry is not an issue here. > In European experience and documents you can find arguments why it is wrong but in countries' like Ukraine experience you can find why it's senseless and definetely will be canceled in the future. Regard, Yuri Demchenko. > regards, > veni -------- Logged at Fri Feb 27 18:48:32 MET 1998 ---------
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