[governance] Russia plans to create independent web / internet

[veni markovski]

Just quickly, more - tomorrow.

Don't worry about reading such "bombastic" articles in the Russian 
media, inspired by "sources in military uniforms", as the original 
articles said in the summer. I've done some research on that issue, 
and have read the Russian Strategy for development of Information 
Society; of course there's nothing like that there.

veni

At 17:50 10/11/2007  +0200, Ralf Bendrath wrote:
>Not sure what this means:
>1) separate root server for the Russian / CIS DNS?
>2) introduction of cyrillic IDNs?
>3) a CIS-wide WAN / TCP-IP network that is not connected to the internet?
>4) all three of the above?
>5) just bluffing?
>
>Does anybody know more about this?
>The text also mentions China's gated internet, but also refers to a
>similar thing "in development in the Arab countries". Any info on the latter?

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