The Ministry of Information and Communication and its Austrailian counterpart agreed on May 9 to set up a VoIP guideline. The guideline is to protect both private users and businesses from the possible leaking of information they send while using VoIP services between the two countries. VoIP is a new internet voice phone service using internet protocol.

The agreement came out because the two countries shared the mutual understandings on the security weakness of VoIP even though VoIp service is to be vitalized.Austrailianhhad suggested its idea to make a guideline at APEC TEl 33rd Conference in April last year.The two countries worked together for a year to reach the agreement.

The agreement includes that the two sides will analyze security threats in VoIP services and open a website for three years to share their study results and products.