RAD Asia Pacific Conference, Macau, China

Last month, I had the oppurtunity to attend and present a case study at RAD's Asia Pacific Conference in Macau China.

Macau is one of the largest gambling places in Asia. Its a beautiful city with a population of about 500,000. It was a portugese colony before Chinese got control of it. The immigration forms and the road signs have Portugese in addition to English and chinese.

To us Pakistanis, every single place outside Pakistan seems neater, tidier, more disciplined and very much 'out of Pakistan' :-).

PTA Orders all ISPs to implement URL filtering within Three Months

In a meeting at PTA today, which I attended as well, it was decided that all Service Providers would implement URL filtering solution individually. PTCL representative told the Member PTA that PTCL would bring the URL filtering service in production within a three month time period. TWA1 already has this ability.

The smaller Internet Service Providers would also have to implement the URL filtering solution since PTA doesn't want any finger-pointing at itself in case a URL is blocked.

Also, PTA has decided that in the future it will not issue orders for blocking an IP address. It will only order to block a specific URL.