Chinanews.com, Beijing, November 27. On November 26, a roundtable seminar on "Digital Resource Security in the Digital Era" was held in Beijing.

The event was hosted by the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and co-organized by China News Network.

The theme of the event is "International Internet Basic Resource Disputes and Internet Governance".

　　Lang Ping, researcher of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Wang Wei, researcher of the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former PTI director, and Tan Yaling, an engineer of the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, attended the scene.

Ma Yan, a professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, former APNIC (Asia Pacific Internet Network Information Center) executive committee member, and Lu Chuanying, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of International Studies, participated online.

On November 26, 2021, the "Digital Resource Security in the Digital Age" roundtable seminar was held in Beijing.

　　At present, the development of the digital economy has increasingly highlighted the importance of basic Internet resources.

The 16th United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held from December 6th to 10th.

In this seminar, experts conducted in-depth discussions on topics such as "Why basic Internet resources are related to the digital economy, what role Internet basic resources play in the digital economy, and how to protect my country's digital sovereignty".

　　Two incidents related to digital address resources occurred in the field of Internet governance this year.

The first is the case of Iranian news websites being hijacked by the United States, and the second is an IP address dispute that occurred in AFRINIC (African Internet Network Information Center).

These two incidents fully exposed the importance of basic Internet resources and the imperfect governance mechanism, especially the second incident, which has not attracted enough attention from the domestic academic circles.

One party to the dispute, AFRINIC, acted recklessly, over-interpreted the policy, and threatened to take back the IP address that was still in use, while the other party to the dispute, Cloud Innovation, overreacted and intended to suspend AFRINIC in court proceedings.

This IP address dispute fully exposed the governance loopholes in the current IP address allocation mechanism.

　　Tan Yaling, an engineer at the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out that Iran’s news website was shut down by the United States. From a technical perspective, the two registries, Verisgn and PIR, were ordered unilaterally by the U.S. Department of Justice but without the user’s consent. The modification of NS data and IP address caused related websites to disappear from the Internet world.

　　"From this incident, the IP address is very important. Except for DNS, there is no IP address. Your mobile phone cannot be connected to the Internet, Internet TV cannot be viewed, and WeChat cannot be played. Ordinary users think that it is natural to plug in the Internet cable. In fact, it’s not that simple. There are very complicated technical operations behind this.” Tan Yaling said, “In the second incident, IP disputes thousands of miles away, although the victims are the users of these IP addresses, the existing Internet governance The system will also be impacted, and the ultimate threat may be the stability and development of the Internet."

　　Ma Yan, a professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and former APNIC (Asia-Pacific Internet Network Information Center) executive committee member, said that everyone goes online, chats on WeChat, plays games, and conducts various transactions through the Internet. Now there is a new term called "Yuan "Universe", in any case, digitization is based on the Internet. Everyone has to interact with the Internet through devices when surfing the Internet. These devices, whether they are mobile phones or IoT sensor nodes, servers, etc., must be connected to the Internet and must be the only one on the Internet. Identified.

　　“In the past, everyone didn’t pay much attention. With the development of informatization in our country, the number of Internet users has increased, and industries, enterprises, etc. have to use the Internet. This way, the management of the network is very important. The number of network addresses determines the size of the network and the basic resources of the Internet. Status is becoming more and more important.” Ma Yan said.

　　Wang Wei, a researcher at the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a former director of PTI, also pointed out that the vigorous implementation of IPv6 in my country is to lower the threshold for the development of many upper-level applications. Otherwise, the problem of insufficient IP addresses will always be entangled, which will cause many systems. Barriers to globalization.

Wang Wei, researcher of the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former director of PTI, gave a speech at the roundtable seminar on "Digital Resource Security in the Digital Era".

　　Wang Wei said, “Although IPv6 is sufficient now, if one day IPv6 encounters resource shortages on certain occasions, we will encounter confusion and challenges caused by IP address disputes similar to AFRINIC. Although IPv6 is very Big, but there is no open application globally. First, a small section is given for the world to use. In short, there is still an upper limit on IP resources."

　　Lang Ping, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that from the perspective of governance and application, there is a tension between the governance of basic Internet resources and national interests: on the one hand, the basic Internet resources are limited, while the relationship between countries There is a competitive relationship in the distribution of global resources; on the other hand, the international top-level domain name is assigned by ICANN, and the companies and institutions engaged in domain name management are country-specific and country-specific, and the users of domain names are also country-specific. This means that activities related to domain names also have sovereign attributes.

　　From this, Lang Ping believes that in the future, under the trend of competition among major powers, how our domain name and IP address governance should be promoted at the level of global governance. Under the new situation, we need to seriously think about whether it can adapt to the new situation.

Lang Ping, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech at the roundtable seminar on "Digital Resource Security in the Digital Age".

　　Regarding the issue of the international digital divide, in the opinion of Lu Chuanying, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of International Studies, this is firstly caused by historical reasons. Developed countries have inherent advantages in possessing basic resources. For example, the website of the United States. It's over, and China will add a cn.

　　Lu Chuanying said that the same problem will also occur in the emerging digital field. Developed countries and rich countries will have greater investment. Many countries cannot afford such large investments on their own. The digital divide will naturally appear. .

　　How should China maintain its digital sovereignty?

　　"For the security of digital resources in the digital age, you must first know which resources of which institutions are used." Ma Yan cited as an example. If the domain name is registered with an overseas institution and the address is used by an overseas management institution, once something goes wrong, there is no way. The security of digital resources is completely out of control, "so we must plan and manage digital assets."

　　Lang Ping believes that when we propose Chinese solutions, such as how to safeguard national sovereignty in response to digital security, we must classify and implement policies based on the nature of security risks, security motives, and the importance of security, so as to better safeguard the country. Benefit.

　　Tan Yaling also agreed with this. He said, don’t talk about the Chinese plan and always think that it serves our national interests. In fact, from the perspective of building a “community with a shared future in cyberspace”, this Chinese plan is based on the perspective of all Internet users. What is proposed is a new plan for address resource management that originated or originated in China, or a revision of the old plan.

　　Wang Wei suggested that, in terms of usage rights, we can consider how to better help users claim their usage rights, or help them better use resources.

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