[Chapter-delegates] China proposes Internet fragmentation via DNS alternate roots

[Imran Anwar]

Hi Joly, thank you for posting this.

From my quick reading of this, it is a blatant attempt to take away the truly globally connected almost perfectly democratic nature of the Internet. 

Whatever the pseudo-rationale being proposed herein, it is an obvious attempt to break what works for a free society/planet and instead build a system that allows states, in particular a state not famous for its human rights or freedom of speech records, to be able to shut down parts of accessibility it does not like itself. 

I also see potential for them to control what other countries people could see if they were unfortunate enough to have their governments, pseudo-democratic or despotic, rely on this alternate Internet. If this is replicated by other nation states, it would basically not fragment but shatter the Internet.

I am sure far smarter people will have a lot more to say about this. I am happy to be educated/corrected if I am wrong in my reading of this, as I said, dangerous and disingenuous proposal.

Regards

Imran Anwar
Co-Founder .PK Pakistan Internet/Email
http://blog.imran.com




On Jun 16, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:

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> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns-00
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> Abstract
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>    With the reality of Internet, Autonomous Internet technology
>    in this article constructs independent autonomous extensible domain
>    name architecture and domain name hierarchy through current domain
>    name architecture, provides independent root DNS server, inner/outer
>    DNS resolution mechanism for each autonomous internet network system,
>    and provides reformation and transition solution from current
>    Internet to realize autonomy even in unilateral action.
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