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

[Paul Wilson]

FYI, the two root servers which have been deployed in Beijing (these are 
anycast copies of the F and I root servers) are each showing normal query 
rates of well over 1000 queries per second.

This would certainly seem to indicate that the Internet's root server 
system is not being bypassed, but is in active use by local ISPs and 
Internet users.

Paul Wilson
APNIC.



--On Tuesday, 28 February 2006 5:25 PM +0100 Wolfgang Kleinwächter 
<wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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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Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC                      <dg at apnic.net>
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