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Introductions
Review of filter reporting
Introductions to new members
04 Overview of how previous
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methods of reporting to the IRG
and proposed changes
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Overview of the implementation
05 Digital Safety Structure
Overview of the new Digital
Overview of the filter, procurement
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Safety team structure
process and the new provider
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Review of filter governance
Overview of governance required
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1.
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Introductions
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Jared Mullen – Director Digital Safety
Kathleen L
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Lisa Wilkin-Krug - Manager Digital
Messaging & System
David Shanks – Classification Office
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John Michael (JP) – Deputy Director
Digital Safety
Geoff Thorn – NZ Telecommunications Forum
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Tim Houston–Manager Digital Child
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Leela Gantman – SPARK
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Josh Mitchell
Mark Harris
– Operational Policy Analyst
– Technology Research & Consulting
David Stone – Telecommunications Specialist
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2. Overview of the
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The Digital Child Exploitation Filter
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About the filter
• The DCEF is made up of websites that are known to
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contain child exploitation material.
• These websites are identified through complaints
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• Websites found to be hosting child sexual abuse
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material are placed on the filter block list once they
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Our Timeline
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Comms to IRG
Notification from NetClean
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29 June 2020
Technical
28 Feb 2020
Public Tender
Notification of
Implementation
NetClean advise DIA they
22 May 2020
Procurement of new DCEF
July 2020
are suspending the service
The public tender was
Provider
The new filter is
as of 30 April 2020
advertised
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Implementation
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Last IRG
Arising issues
Meeting
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Contract with Allot Signed
NetClean Extension
Comms to IRG & the
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30 June 2020
Date 25 May 2020
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4 Providers
Contract signed for an
DIA secure extension from
5 Aug 2020
responded to us
initial period of 3yrs, with
NetClean until 31 July 2020
DIA announce Al ot
quotes
up to two extensions, each
Ltd. as new provider
for 2yrs (7yrs total)
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Allot Ltd
Provide a range of services to
international teleco’s including filter
Information ing,
security and traffic management. They
have a positive international reputation
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with branches in locations such as NZ,
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Aus, India & across Europe
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Why Allot Ltd.
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Each supplier had to meet the following pre-conditions for their bid to be considered:
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1. The system can be hosted in New Zealand
2. The system supports Border Gateway Protocol filtering
3. The system enables DIA to manage the block list.
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Evaluation Criteria:
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Price
Service Quality
Experience
Solution
Harm
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• Undertook price
• Understood
• Proposal was
• Provided
• Allot have the
• Offer robust
sensitivity
DIA’s needs &
thought out, well
confidence that
ability to
support including
analysis
requirements
prepared and
their solution
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• Allot was ranked
• Understood how
comprehensive
was fit for
volumes and
account
the best public
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• Established and
purpose
scale up
manager
value
Gateway
work with other
• System was
• Global
• System is a ‘turn
Protocol solution
Teleco’s
demonstrated as
organisation with
key’ out of the
would work
stable
locations in
box solution
multiple
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Operation of the DCEF1982
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How the filter works:
• All internet traffic is passed by ISPs to the filter.
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• The filter compares the URL address requested to
the list of known child exploitation sites.
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• The requested site is not on the filter →
user is passed to requested website.
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the user is passed to the DIA landing page
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3. Review of filter
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Filter Governance 1982
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We now need to focus on reviewing the governance around the filter
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▪ Code of Practice
▪ Frequency of IRG meetings
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▪ Review IRG membership
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▪ Process to review URLs
▪ Review previous IRG meeting actions
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4. Review of
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Reporting
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Proposed Reporting
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For our report going forward, some of the
improvements we’d like to make are:
• Automating the reporting – it’s quite manual
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• Peak times of users trying to access sites
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• Each month/period
• Number of sites removed
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• Number of sites added
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Structure of Digital Safety
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