> Definitely. Perhaps a Tucowsian could check out if the .CN legalese allows > that gov. to restrict registrations.
As Tom points out, this should be expected. I was quite surprised at the number of sites that and registrations that have been censored by the government. It wasn't really apparent until I got there for the recent ICANN meeting and discovered that a good number of sites on my favorites list were inaccessible in China, but worked perfectly elsewhere. One might tend to dismiss these incidents as technical glitches, but in each case, the network problems were limited to the People's Republic (Berkman has a neat censorship checker available through http://cyber.law.harvard.edu). It wouldn't have been a big deal for me, but given that my website was one of those censored :( The fact is that the government will impose restrictions, but that we should let that diminish the value of this new offering. In the vast majority of cases, things should go off without a hitch. I get the sense that CIRA has imposed stronger regulations for .CA than what the average user would see with CNNIC in .CN.... -rwr "There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot." - Steven Wright Got Blog? http://www.byte.org/blog ----- Original Message ----- From: "Swerve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [Fwd: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update - 11/11/02] > > >> Anyone know if the Chinese gov't. will be censoring or restricting > >> registrations? > > > > It *would* be interesting to get something like > > "boycottbeijingolympics.com.cn" and see if they complain... or > > "humanrightsnow.org.cn" or something like that ;-) > > Definitely. Perhaps a Tucowsian could check out if the .CN legalese allows > that gov. to restrict registrations. > > swerve > > > > D > > >
