[governance] Re: Kremlin eyes internet control ...

[Veni Markovski]

Surely there is a good reason for .ru as well as for .rf in Cyrillic.
The fact that we may not understand sometimes the reasons, or find
different solutions to the problems does not mean the reasons don't
exist, or the solutions will not be turned down in a different culture
than the NorthWest.

This list becomes more and more representing the NW culture, and it
has been like that for a while. This surely worries me.

Best wishes for the New Year to all of you. More detailed wishes are
at my blog http://blog.veni.com


Veni



On 1/4/08, Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't for the heck of me think why Russia would want to go to all that
> trouble and then stick to ".ru" in Cyrillic, when "Russia" in Russian is
> Rossiya (Росси́я) - and ".po" is not taken, nor is ".pc" so Paraguay need
> not fear a war over ".py". And if it about asserting cyrillicness, then,
> there is nothing more patently Cyrillic than "я". So, new ccTLD, ".pя"
>
> Regards,
>
> Rui
>
> On 04/01/2008, David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > For those who haven't seen the report, The Guardian reported in the last
> > couple of days of Russia's desire "for greater control over the
> > Russian-language part of the net - and its
> > aim seems to be to create a web that operates in Cyrillic, completely
> > independent from the wider web." See:
> >
> > Kremlin eyes internet control ...
> > The growing cold war with Russia has a new front besides oil fields and
> > undersea territorial claims: the internet. Russia's government is pushing
> > for greater control over the Russian-language part of the net - and its
> aim
> > seems to be to create a web that operates in Cyrillic, completely
> > independent from the wider web.
> >
> > The problem for Russia is that its top-level domain - with the ASCII
> > suffix .ru - translates into Cyrillic as .py, the domain name of Paraguay.
> > That could pose security problems for Russian users. Kim Davies, who
> > controls the domain names at the international domain naming agency Icann
> > told the Guardian: "Russia has a second top level domain name of .ru in
> > Ascii code, but is pushing for .rf in Cyrillic."
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/03/internet.censorship
> >
> > Of course, those who check out my website will have already seen the link
> > (shameless self promotion I know!). See http://technewsreview.com.au/
> >
> > Cheers
> > David
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