[89014] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI - China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shen)
Tue Feb 28 23:56:36 2006
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:54:42 +0800 (CST)
From: Joe Shen <joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060228192903.021a8230@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I've read the public announcement of Chinese Ministry
of Information Industry. It just state that: there
will be another sub-domain mil.cn created besides
another six english lettter sub domain in .cn
And, it also states: three Chinese Character TLD is
establish which is "China"/"Cooperation"/"Network".
In fact, these top level chinese character TLD exist
for years; and these TLD is supported by
public-root.com for years.
Could this be "NEWs"?
From viewpoint of computer science, domain name is
just a database structure which is used to represent
IP address. So, it should NOT be limited to 7-bit code
and should allow 8-bit code scheme. Considering
robustness of Internet, a distributed service system
is surely better than a central one.
Joe
--- Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> hannigan@renesys.com
>
>
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