Re: [ga] China confirms alternate root for TLDs

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 20:02 07/03/2006, George Kirikos wrote:
> Hello,
> The following pages might be of interest for Chinese IDN TLDs:
>
> http://www.cnnic.cn/en/index/0L/index.htm
>
> http://www.cnnic.cn/html/Dir/2005/10/11/3218.htm
> (in particular questions
> Q. What kind of Chinese Domain Name can be registered?
> Q. What kind of Chinese Domain Name does "Official Client-end CDN
> Software" support? )
>
> Sincerely,

George,
I suppose that even after that, nobody will accept this as real.

The reason why is that they think DNS instead of thinking externets 
(external network look-alike). NTIA published its Statement of 
principle and Congress voted an appropriation of the Internet by the 
USG. Since the Internet is made of every computer interoperable via 
packet switch network this was an annexion of the entire world 
digital ecosystem by the USA (same as RFC 3935 which submits it to 
the influence of the IETF). This was not acceptable as such, but we 
had to respect the US position.

Hence the Tunis deal:
- the USG keeps control of the IANA (with the concerns now risen by 
the IAB) and of the Internationalised US Internet (documented by the 
RFC 3066 Bis adopted by the IESG a few hours later on).
- the rest of the world and the USA created the IGF to discuss of the 
rest. This includes the regalian issues (what is of interest to 
States, and to civil society, economy and technosciences, as a 
consequence of the accepted four power poles in the Information 
Society), i.e. national, corporate, civil and private appropriations 
of the digital ecosystem.

This is what China has published - they do it for several years. Many 
will do it too. It has nothing primarily to do with the root. There 
is an Internationalised US system you know. There is a Chinese system 
which is different. There is a Jefsey's system which is also different. etc.

China does not created an alternate root. China does not do like 
New.net. China has embodied an externet and has carried an ICANN 
ICP-3 conformant testing, the same as I carried one through the 
dot-root project. This has proven throughout 3 years that it did not 
create any problem to the operations of the US and others Internet 
global and externets. This has completed the positive test ICANN 
expected: the end of the single authoritative file concept. 
Technically wise, there are several _parallel_ solutions which are 
used (and which can change overtime): the focus is no more on the 
root but on each resgistrant. Where ever the registrant is: he must 
access the hosts.

The boss is the registrant, the service is the TLD. ICANN is only the 
International US Internet externet TLD regulation authority (? or 
syndicate). Its organisation is to the NTIA's decision until it 
probably transfers to the FCC as in the 70/80's.
jfc