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

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@corliss.net>]

Non-member submission from ["Milton Mueller" <mueller@syr.edu>]

Harald:

I was amused by the CN-NIC response. It is IDENTICAL to the way New.net
describes what they are doing. The only possible difference is that CN-NIC
describes it as an "experiment" that is limited to a smaller population,
whereas New.net is clearly aiming at a mass market.

But note: Verisign also describes their current internationalized domain
name system as a "testbed." Do you believe them? (Yes, if it doesn't work
out it was an "experiment;" if it becomes a new international de facto
standard, well...who can argue with success in the marketplace?)

I draw one important conclusion from this:

Any discussion of "alternative" or "competitive" roots needs to start with a
technically precise definition of what an alternate root is and is not. Do
you think the involved community can put aside their ideological axes long
enough to come up with one?

>   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 ad 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
>



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