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Created by the Inter-ministerial Ordinance Nº 147, of May
31st 1995 and altered by the Presidential Decree Nº 4,829,
of September 3rd 2003, the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
is responsible for promoting the technical quality, innovation
and dissemination of offered services.
Since July of 2004, the representatives of the civil society
are chosen democratically to participate directly in the deliberations
and to debate priorities for Internet, along with the government.
Members of the CGI.br
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
has 21 members, as follows:
- Nine Federal Government representatives
- Ministry of Science and Technology;
- Ministry of Communications;
- Presidential Cabinet;
- Ministry of Defense;
- Ministry of Development, Industry
and Foreign Trade;
- Ministry of Planning, Budget and
Management;
- National Telecommunications Agency;
- National Council of Scientific
and Technological Development;
- National Forum of Estate Science
and Technology Secretaries.
- Four representatives of the corporate sector
- Internet services providers;
- Telecommunications infrastructure
providers;
- Hardware and software industries;
- General business sector users.
- Four representatives of the
civil society
- Three representatives of the scientific
and technological community
- One Internet expert
Attributions
Among the diverse responsibilities of the CGI.br, the main attributions
are:
- to propose policies and procedures related
to the regulation of Internet activities;
- to recommend standards for technical and
operational procedures for the Internet in
Brazil;
- to establish strategic directives related
to the use and development of Internet in
Brazil;
- to promote studies and technical standards
for the network and services' security in
the country;
- to coordinate the allocation of Internet
addresses (IPs) and the registration of domain
names using <.br>;
- to collect, organize and disseminate information
on Internet services, including indicators
and statistics.
Activities
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - CGI.br maintains
working groups and coordinates several projects in areas of
fundamental importance for the Internet operation and development
in the country. In order to execute its activities, the CGI.br
has created a non-profit civil organization named Brazilian
Network Information Center (NIC.br).
Since 1995, the Registro.br executes some of the Brazilian
Internet Steering Committee attributions, such as the activities
of domain names registration and the administration and publication
of DNS for the <.br> domain. In the beginning of July 2005,
there were 785,000 domains registered in the country. Registro.br also
provides the services of distribution and maintenance of Internet
addresses. For LACNIC - Latin American and Caribbean Internet
Addresses Register, Registro.br offers the services of engineering
and hosting.
The PTTMetro (PTT- Internet Exchange Point) is the project
of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee that provides the
necessary infrastructure for the direct interconnection between
the diverse networks that operate in a metropolitan region. PTT
is maintaining exchange points in regions of the country that
have big interest in exchanging Internet traffic, as São
Paulo, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, interconnecting commercial
and academic networks with a centralized management.
Internet security is one of the major concerns of the Brazilian
Internet Steering Committee, that maintains since 1997 the CERT.br -
Brazilian Computer Emergency Response Team. Besides incident
handling, CERT.br offers support to network administrators
and Internet users in Brazil, writes documents in Portuguese
about network security and produces statistics about security
incidents and spam. It also maintains an early warning project
with the goal of identifying new trends and alerting Brazilian
networks involved in malicious activities. CERT.br works
to increase the security awareness, acts in the correlation of
events in the Brazilian Internet and helps the establishment
of new Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) in
Brazil.
The Security Best Practices for Internet Users, developed by CERT.br, is a compendium of concepts, best practices and tips to the final user. In this document the users can find information about virus, worms, fraud, vulnerabilities and best practices for system configuration.
Antispam.br is
a website maintained by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee,
and constitutes a neutral and technically sound reference source
about spam. The most important commitment of this site is to
inform users and network administrators about spam, its consequences,
and which are the means to protect against and fight it.
The Center of Studies on Information and Communication Technologies (CETIC.br) is responsible for the collection, analysis and dissemination of data about the use and penetration of the Internet in the country.
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee's working groups -
the GTER - Network Engineering; the GTS - Computer Security;
and the GTRH - Training of Human Resources - have been created
to provide technical, administrative and operational input for
the decisions and recommendations made by CGI.br. Their members
meet in periodic events and through mailing lists.
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - CGI.br
E-mail: info@cgi.br
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