[governance] VS: [Fwd: China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains]

[Wolfgang Kleinwächter]

With regard to the China Root: 
 
This is not new news. New is that it is now officially announced and out into practical operation. But what you (or the US) can do? In its para 3 of the DNS Statement from June 2005 it signalled that it will respect the national sovereignty over the domain name space of a country. This is reflected in the Internet Governance part of the Tunis Agenda. Read para 63: "Countries should not be involved in decisions regarding another country's country-code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD). Their legitimate interests, as expressed and defined by each country, in diverse ways, regarding decisions affecting their ccTLDs, need to be respected, upheld and addressed via a flexible and improved framework and mechanisms". For China, to have its own root with chinese TLDs is the execution of the sovereignty over their domain name space. They certainly will not start a root with .com zone files in ASCII code. But what now VeriSign/IANA/DOC is doing with iDN TLD root zone files? Will they create their own version of .com in chinese characters and than put it into the Hidden Server? 
 
US Principle 3 was the price, the US government offered to get its principle 1 through: Continuation of its own oversight role with regard to ICANN and the DNS. And China accepted this in July 2006. It was not accepted (or understood) by the EU. That is why you saw the struggle in September and the letter from Madame Rice to Mr. Strw. Now you have two unilateral controlled root server systems, one based on ASCII, the other one on Chinese characters. And what will happen with Arab, Cyrillic and Persian?
 
Not a big deal, if you have password to leave the Chinese Internet and to go to the ASCII Internet. And Only a small group of people living in the ASCII world will knock at the door of the Chinese Internet. Big news, but no revolution. We are moving, as Mr. Hegel has said, confirmed later by Mr. Marx, nearly 200 years ago, from simple to complex structures. The remaining question is, is there a need to coordinate the different language based roots? ITU is waiting for new business ...((((.
 
Best
 
wolfgang
 
  

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Lähettäjä: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org puolesta: David Allen
Lähetetty: ti 28.2.2006 16:59
Vastaanottaja: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Aihe: Re: [governance] [Fwd: China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains]



So the facts are clear:  China (and not just China ...) has had
so-called alternate multilingual roots for some time - to the point
where _currently_ there are 70 million native Chinese character
users, and growing.  This is not something that is just happening.
It has been underway for quite awhile.  The Western press
environment, likely influenced by ICANN and US Gov positions, has
failed to bring it to light (for us) - that does not change the
reality.

David
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