The Federation Council suggested Minzifra to reconsider the activities of hosting providers

The Federation Council suggested that the mincifers revise a number of aspects in the activities of the hosting providers. It is about separating the owners of server equipment from secondary suppliers and thus save them from excessive regulation. However, representatives of the industry, on the contrary, are afraid that the business of reseller companies can suffer from such changes, since large customers will lose interest in them.

“Kommersant” got acquainted with the appeal of the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction Artyom Sheikin to the deputy head of the Ministry of Council Ivan Lebedev about the activities of hosting providers from March 26. In his letter, the senator draws attention to the two provisions of the current Information on informationnamely work List of hosting providersused in the work of state and municipal information systems (GIS), subordinate to Roskomnadzor, as well as IT systems of state enterprises.

As Mr. Sheikin notes, in the process of providing services to customers, not only the organization that provides hosting services (primary supplier), but also organizations renting server capacities and reserves them (secondary supplier) can be involved. As a result, both organizations are subject to registration in the register of Roskomnadzor and are obliged to comply with the requirements provided for by law (for example, to provide only power in the Russian Federation). “Since both organizations function on the same infrastructure, there is a duplication, and possibly repeatedly repetition of information in the list, which leads to excessive administrative burden for business and complicates the monitoring and regulation of this market segment,” Artem Shekin notes in his letter.

Another feature of the established regulation is the situation when the cloud service provider that provides the infrastructure for placing GIS is obliged to include the information that the HIS owner itself owns in the corresponding list, and the provider does not have access to this information, for example, the IP address, the senator indicates. The proposals were the result of the appeals of market participants to the senator about the availability of law enforcement issues, Mr. Sheikin told Kommersant. “I ask the mincifers to clarify whether law enforcement issues about the activities of hosting providers were considered, as well as clarify the position regarding the need to make changes to the law on information,” he added.

The press service of the Ministry of Cyphra confirmed the receipt of a letter and noted that a consolidated position on this issue is being formed together with interested departments. Separately, the mincifers added that on their part in November 2024, a draft government decree on the list of information in the register of hosting providers was developed. In accordance with it, provide data (technical information about computing power, addresses and names of user legal entities, etc.) The provider will only be at the request of Roskomnadzor in case of suspicious activity.

“There is no speech about the transfer of personal data, innovations do not affect ordinary users,” the mincifers added.

As specified in Roskomnadzor, today the regulator does not need to provide information about server equipment.

The possibility of getting the same server infrastructure into the register two or more times, due to reseller companies, is confirmed by the general director of the Ruvds hosting provider Nikita Tsaplin. At the same time, according to him, if you exclude such resellers from the registry, their work will “lose meaning”: “This will reorient the flows of customers towards companies in the register with confirmed equipment, which will actually destroy the reselling market,” explains Mr. Tsaplin.

However, the RTK-Tsod (included in Rostelecom) believe that the exclusion of the seller of services from the registry is useful clarification in the law. According to the director of the company for interaction with state authorities Dmitry Panyshev, they encountered the RTK-tsyu with the conflict designated by the senator in working with GIS. “Therefore, we support the introduction of improvements,” he said.

Philip Krupanin