November 22-23, the 20th HostObzor Conference took place in St. Petersburg. The conference is the major Russian event on hosting that has been held twice a year since 2002. A meeting of the Commission of the Hosting Providers and Domain Name Registrars of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) was held during the event. At the meeting Matvey Alekseev, FAITID CEO and the Commission Chairman, presented a short summary on the first results of the implementation of the Russian block lists of the websites containing offensive information.

"In order to make the lists more efficient, it is necessary to develop a transparent and reliable cooperation mechanism between the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (ROSKOMNADZOR) that is responsible for support of the lists and hosting, telecom providers and domain name registrars. Rapid exchange of the information on the websites included to the lists and the early warning of their owners will help to avoid website blocking by mistake," Matvey Alekseev said.

At the HostObzor Conference the representatives of the Coordination Center for TLDs .RU and .РФ, the Technical Center for the Internet met the Russian Internet industry experts in order to discuss the Federal Law #139 “On the Protection of Children From the Information Harmful to Their Health and Development”.

During the conference much attention was also paid to the recent initiatives in the information security area, IPv6 introduction, DNSSEC and cloud technologies.