2. Provide services for users strictly according to registered and announced standards.
3. Report to the State management agencies on their service quality and submit to examination
and inspection by the latter under law provisions.
Article 27.- The Internet connection is effected on the following principles:
1. The establishment and use of telecommunications transmission lines connecting equipment
systems of Internet service providing units and/or enterprises with one another and with the
public telecommunications network must comply with the regulations on telecommunications.
2. The IXPs may connect with one another and with international Internet.
3. The ISPs may connect with one another and with the IXPs.
4. The private-use ISPs may connect with the ISPs and IXPs but must not connect directly with
one another.
5. The OSPs and ICPs may connect with the ISPs and IXPs.
6. The Internet agents may connect with Internet service-providing enterprises that have
concluded the agency contracts with them.
Chapter III
STATE MANAGEMENT OVER INTERNET
Article 28.- The contents of State management over Internet include:
1. Elaborating policies, strategies and plannings for Internet development.
2. Elaborating and promulgating legal documents on the management and establishment of
equipment systems, the provision and use of Internet services.
3. Managing the granting of permits in Internet activities.
4. Managing technical standards and quality of Internet services.
5. Managing Internet service prices and charges.
6. Managing sciences and technologies in Internet activities.
7. Managing information on Internet.
8. Managing safety and security in Internet activities.
9. Managing the encoding and decoding of information on Internet.
10. Managing Internet resources.
11. Examining, inspecting, settling disputes and handling violations in Internet activities.
12. Effecting international cooperation in Internet activities.
Article 29.1. The Government shall exercise the unified State management over Internet throughout the
country. The ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies attached to the Government and the
People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall perform the task of State
management over Internet according to the Government’s assignment prescribed in this Decree.