RE: [ga] Re: China?[Re: Additional Mailing Lists]

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

This may be my last post today.

> From: Sotiris [mailto:sotiris@hermesnetwork.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 5:58 PM
> 
> Whether China launches its own root or not, the question is: 
> will I be able to
> access the Chinese rootzone and its TLDs from a WWW cybercafe 
> in Peru, or perhaps
> in Finland?  China may have its own "root" for purposes of a 
> country-specific
> WAN, but how does it affect the global DNS if the Chinese 
> domains do not
> automatically resolve worldwide?

Access from outside of China to interior hosts;
Some of their hosts may not, intentionally. However, if they hook into their
existing zone entries then there should be no problem. Thier point is to
control acess to China. The then run a cross-over registry that is a listing
of publically available zone servers, which is a sub-set of their actual
registry fo internal chinese hosts. That they are ALSO setting up their own
COM, NET, ORG, et alia zone servers, with edited zone files, won't make any
differences, from an external view, unless one happens to be using their
zone resolvers, which gets us to ...

Access to the Internet from inside China;
Certainly, one of their reasons for doing this is to control the access, of
their own people, to the rest of the Internet. China has stated this before,
much to the consternation of many.
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