Tehran, YJC. As disagreements continue regarding the ‘indigenous’ VPN, indications of its realization are not few.
Maybe it was the Chief of Police
of the Organization for Passive Defense who first brought up the issue of
indigenous VPNs, in the wake of which the Minister of Telecommunications said
that there is no indigenous/non-indigenous VPN.
As time went by, however, things
got more serious and the Supreme Council for Cyber Space was appointed
responsible for taking the affair in hand.
The council then appointed a time
for organizations to apply for VPN via a website it had launched. But after
around 45 days no news has been issued as whether individuals could also apply.
Last year VPNs were down in the
country for some time with no prior notice. In the wake of the downtime Mehdi
Akhavan Behabadi, Secretary of the Supreme Council of Cyber Space announced
that issuing legal VPN is something that depends on the abilities of the
Telecommunication Infrastructure Company which is the agent for VPN services.
He stated, though, that the Telecommunication
Infrastructure Company faces technical problems and that they hope as abilities
are boosted, grounds will be laid for issuing VPN to individuals as well.