I've read the public announcement of Chinese Ministry of Information Industry. It just state that: there will be another sub-domain mil.cn created besides another six english lettter sub domain in .cn And, it also states: three Chinese Character TLD is establish which is "China"/"Cooperation"/"Network". In fact, these top level chinese character TLD exist for years; and these TLD is supported by public-root.com for years. Could this be "NEWs"?
From viewpoint of computer science, domain name is just a database structure which is used to represent IP address. So, it should NOT be limited to 7-bit code and should allow 8-bit code scheme. Considering robustness of Internet, a distributed service system is surely better than a central one.
Joe --- Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com> wrote:
At 06:54 PM 2/28/2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
william(at)elan.net wrote:
---- From: Michael Geist <mgeist@pobox.com> Date: February 28, 2006 9:24:09 AM EST To: dave@farber.net Subject: China To Launch Alternate Country Code
Domains
Dave,
China is preparing to launch what appears to be
an alternate root.
China is creating an alternate root, which it can control while using the Chinese language.
I doubt I need to tell any of you about ICANN, VeriSign, Internet Governance, alternate roots or the history of these issues. Everyone else will.
It may not be so clear cut. Check out Mark Jeftovic, a trusted source on DNS information, and a director of CIRA:
http://blog.easydns.org/archives/60-China-Top-Level-Domain-news-possibly-not...
-M<
-- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operations
hannigan@renesys.com
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