[ga-roots] CNNIC root (Re: Criminalization of alt roots)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

At 00:31 04.05.2001 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
>At 06:16 PM 5/3/01 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>Thursday, May 03, 2001, 5:09:03 PM, Simon Higgs wrote:
>> > And China's root is already in play.
>>
>>Evidence please?
>
>CNNIC is running their own alt.root for .gongsi. Do your own homework.

I asked CNNIC about this.
Their reply, dated April 30:

>   Chinese domain name system include chinesedomainname.cn(cdn.cn) and
>chinesedomainname.chinesedomainname(cdn.cdn) .
>
>   cdn.cn can be used easily,so we provide the testbed service for users.
>We load our chinese data to our ".CN" name server, so this kind of
>service is within the current global DNS architecture.
>
>    cdn.cdn is only a test in the very limited scope, it is not a 
> "alternate root" system.
>we adopt CDNS-Client to direct the cdn.cdn request to CNNIC testing name 
>server,
>the Client can  know whether the request is a cdn.cdn request or not,
>if it is not the cdn.cdn, then Client will do nothing with the request,
>just pass by. If it is a cdn.cdn, then the Client direct the request to 
>the right name server.
>So people who want to make test, he should use our Client to help us to 
>make test.
>why we use the Client method? because we just want to make test and do not
>make any effect on the current DNS architecture and have more flexibility 
>to adjust our testbed.
>
>  If you have any things about us, please contact us freely.
>
>your regards
>
>Deng xiang

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