Joe and all,
I also have to agree with both your potential scenario and Dave
Crockers comments here as well. But I somehow doubt that
China will in the end block all gTLD (DNS Entirely) and will
modify their tendency for pull business practices to some expectable
level, eventually or risk being segregated by their own hand.
Joe Baptista wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Milton Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Non-commercial TLDs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Nc-tlds] Opinion from China regarding new gTLD.
>
> I wonder what would happen - if the chiness were to block all dns service
> to china from the outside world (firewall the dns) only allow official
> queries to be done via authorized government dns services, then they would
> setup their own root servers - and say bye bye to the rest of the world
> and NSI and ICANN.
>
> Then they can setup their own registries and sell their own version of
> dot.com.
>
> Knowledge of the dns is power, is it not croker.
>
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> > Whatever the language used by the Chinese, their concern is about outflow
> > of money.
> >
> > Hence, ANY gTLD is likely to be a problem, unless the registry is run by a
> > Chinese organization. Yes. outflow of "dollars" might be a bigger concern
> > than outflow of Ringett, but the high-level issue is the same.
> >
> > That's an inherent concern with the globalization that the Internet
> > brings. Some groups want to deal with it by protectionism and others want
> > to deal with it by aggressively developing "pull" products and services.
>
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