[governance] Kremlin eyes internet control ...

[Veni Markovski]

This article continues to be quoted, see this one: 
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=12115

Luckily, the Russians have enough specialists to be able to respond 
here: http://telnews.ru/event/16133, but the harm from such quotes is 
bigger than the benefits.

What I wanted to find out is if Wolfgang has been authorized by Nitin 
Desai to speak as his special adviser, as he is quoted as such. 
Because that means, Wolfgang, that you are not saying just your 
opinion, but also Nitin's, and the IGF. I also wonder what you had in 
mind here:
"The proposal for 'Russian internet' would look at how they can 
communicate better inside the country. The internationalised domain 
name gives them an opportunity to do things which are now being 
tested in China, where they are currently using Chinese characters 
for three top-level domains: .net, .com and .cn."

As the .rf (in Cyrillic) is actually aiming not for internal usage, 
but to have it for all users. As for China - they have that no on the 
top-level domain level, but on the second and third level. I hope you 
were misquoted, as the article sounded full with misquotes?

best,
veni

At 17:44 03.01.2008   -0800, you 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

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