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Iran designing its own version of the Internet

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Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet

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World is trying to get connected in every possible manner and here are some, want to isolate and have their own world.

Such is the history of authoritarian regimes. If North Korea weren't so backwards, I imagine they'd be trying to do much the same thing.

Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet

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World is trying to get connected in every possible manner and here are some, want to isolate and have their own world.

Such is the history of authoritarian regimes. If North Korea weren't so backwards, I imagine they'd be trying to do much the same thing.

North Korea has their own Country Intranet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)

Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet

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How much of this is them "isolating" themselves and how much is it simply in response to the fact that they're cut off from doing commerce with much of the U.S. (and other countries?) due to trade sanctions, etc? serious question I would like to know the answer to

What will likely happen is that Government entities/businesses and other large business organizations will apply for licenses to access the Internet for commercial use. This is purely an information control/censoring move.

Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet

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I'm not a network engineer but is this all that difficult to do? I imagine if you control the AS (autonomous system) then you can control all routes into and out of the country, so they can easily block anything out of the country unless it comes from some known IP (like the computers of the elite class).
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