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

[Kleinwächter, Wolfgang]

Veni
 
I am also disappointed from the article. The author promised me to send quotations to me before the publication. He did not. He misunderstood a lot of details and mixed different things to a muddy soup to justify his main argument: The Kremlin wants to censor the Internet. I urged him to be very precise and to make a clear difference between real facts, current politics and speculations by some groups in the Russian government and elsewhere around "options". I asked him also to quote ms as university of aarhus and not as IGF. 
 
Unfortunately it is obviously risky to acept telephone interviews. 
 
Sorry
 
Wolfgang  

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Von: Veni Markovski [mailto:veni at veni.com]
Gesendet: Do 10.01.2008 12:28
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Betreff: Re: [governance] Kremlin eyes internet control ...



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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