On Wednesday 01 March 2006 10:12 am, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > From: Chris Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >If I understand correctly, China will create new TLDs which > >can lead to a type of forking of the DNS system. > > > >Couldn't the EU do the same thing if they wanted to at any time? > > > >Is this a problem and the beginning of the end of the Internet > >as we know it? > > I could do the same thing at any time if I wanted. It only matters if I > can talk people into using my DNS system.
Yeh but you are not China. As best I can tell you are a population of one and China has over 1 Billion people. I think China is more important then Gabe. > I don't think adding a new tld is a big deal. I'm more worried about them > redefining existing tlds to extend their censorship. Europe doesn't bother > me at all- for this to work, you have to convince the people to use your > DNS servers. China can mandate this, Europe can't. Yep. China probably won't pull it off but there is nothing the guys at the top would like more then all China in its own firewalled compound with one portal, which they controlled, to the outside world. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
