Board Decision Establishing Regulatory Framework
8.3 Children without photo-ID cards should be accompanied by an adult.
8.4 Every authorized Internet Café is required to maintain a log of users to be filled in by
the user itself as stated in the Appendix 1.
ARTICLE 9: PHYSICAL LAYOUT
9.1 Internet Café should not have fully enclosed cubicles which will isolate a Computer
user from other Computer users.
9.2 Partition if any installed or built inside the Internet Café shall not exceed four and
half feet in height from the ground level.
9.3 A board viewing “Pornography is not allowed” shall be prominently displayed in the
Internet Café.
9.4 Internet Café that have cubicles or partitions shall be required to ensure that minors
are not allowed to use machines in cubicles or behind partitions.
ARTICLE 10: MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ON BANDWIDTH
10.1The bandwidth depends on number of Computers but should not be less than
128kbps for less than 10 computes.
10.2Between 10 and 19 computers the bandwidth should be 256 kbps.
10.3 For 20 Computers and above the bandwidth should be 512 kbps.
ARTICLE 11: INTERNET PROTOCOL ALLOCATION/ACCESS LOGS
11.1Internet Café must maintain a list showing which Internet Protocol (I.P.) address is
allocated to which machine when a block of Internet Protocol (I.P.) addresses are
used directly on different machines.
11.2Internet Café that is using single or multiple Internet Protocol (I.P.) addresses
which is shared amongst different machines must maintain an electronic log which
shall enable the owners of the Internet Café to tell the authorities, on demand,
which machine was allocated with which internal LAN Internet Protocol (I.P.)
address at any specified time.
11.3 Log records of the users must be maintained by Internet Café for at least one year
and shall be produced before Regulatory Authority or before the Police for
investigation purpose on demand.
ARTICLE 12: NETWORK SAFETY AND SECURITY:
12.1An Internet Café Service Provider and its customers are prohibited from engaging
in activities that are detrimental to information network safety, for such as
intentional production and dissemination of a computer virus or other destructive
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