[89003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI - China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Tue Feb 28 19:34:21 2006
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:33:37 -0500
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4404E2A0.9080906@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 06:54 PM 2/28/2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
>william(at)elan.net wrote:
>>
>>----
> > From: Michael Geist <mgeist@pobox.com>
> > Date: February 28, 2006 9:24:09 AM EST
> > To: dave@farber.net
> > Subject: China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > China is preparing to launch what appears to be an alternate root.
>
>China is creating an alternate root, which it can control while
>using the Chinese language.
>
>I doubt I need to tell any of you about ICANN, VeriSign, Internet
>Governance, alternate roots or the history of these issues.
>Everyone else will.
It may not be so clear cut. Check out Mark Jeftovic, a trusted source
on DNS information, and a director of CIRA:
http://blog.easydns.org/archives/60-China-Top-Level-Domain-news-possibly-not-news..html
-M<
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Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574
Member of Technical Staff Network Operations
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