[ga] Chinese Internet

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

On Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:27 AM (AEST)
Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca> wrote:
Subject: Re: [ga] Re: iCANN's protection

> Kristy McKee wrote:
> > China, among others has no interest in using the legacy root services.
>
> Have you any evidence for this? It seems to me .cn is in the root zone, and
> I fairly often see Chinese sending to various mailing lists I'm on. All of
> them are (surprise!) hosted on real domains whose TLDs are in the ICANN root.
> The Chinese I see there seem to have no problem finding those domains.

CHINESE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM LAUNCHES ON ALTERNATIVE ROOT SERVER

New York, NY February 7, 2001 (ICB TOLL FREE NEWS) People's Daily reports that
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has launched its Chinese
Domain Name System.

Internet surfers can also access other websites that do not end with ".cn" by
entering Chinese characters, so long as they have installed client software
provided by CNNIC, states the report.

Significantly, the "client software" referenced above means that CNNIC's Chinese
Domain Name System is using an alternate root server - an inclusive name space
root that operates in the same manner, but independently of the U.S./DoC root
system.

Users of ISPs that have installed the Chinese domain name resolving software
need not resort to installing the client software of their own. Many ISPs regard
the resolve function as a kind of value-added service, so they are actively
cooperating with CNNIC to promote and popularize this service.

CNNIC will provide three kinds of code formats for each domain name including
GBK, BIG5, UTF8 which are respectively used by Chinese mainland, Hong Kong &
Taiwan and Win2K users. Internet users can use their local code format
conveniently and there is no need to convert characters. This will undoubtedly
help lay a good foundation for interchanges between the motherland, Hong Kong
and Taiwan.

Regards
Patrick Corliss


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