From an associate of mine on a different Linux UG site (used with
permission):
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Several sites have reported on the fact that as of tomorrow China will
begin offering
3 TLD's from their own DNS root servers, one of the better writeups is here
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/de83199b341886d0753140c37093a98e/index.html
worth noting, they are basically creating a chinese language internet
addressing scheme, they aren't yet "splitting the internet" any worse
than it already is.
the TLD's are the chinese character equivalents of .com, .net and .cn
which means that major chinese sites will probably be available from both
addressing schemes.
I am mildly curious about which character encoding they will be using,
and the technical standards that will apply to their new DNS system,
whether PunyCode
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3492.html
or something else (a constrained unicode encoding, or one of the
extant chinese language character encodings)
What I'm curious about is will other major language groups begin
splitting the DNS for similar reasons, Russia might, EU will at least
talk about it, and most of south america would probably like to be
able to use accents and diacritical marks in their domain names.
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