A LOBBY group set up by internet auction house eBay and other online merchants in the US and Europe plans to open a chapter in Australia as the Federal Government is poised to reveal details of its contentious cyber safety plan.

Labor promised before last year's election to protect children from objectionable content on the internet and set aside $128.5 million in the May budget to deal with cyber safety and law enforcement.

A spokesman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the Government would soon invite the internet industry to participate in a live trial of a content filtering plan.

A small-scale test has been held within the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Government has hired Melbourne company Enex TestLab to design a live pilot test on a real network.

Enex Testlab is a private laboratory spun out of RMIT IT Testlab three years ago. It has international clients in business and government sectors and consults in Asia, Europe and North America.