[At-Large] R: China is going to divide the DNS

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Dear Roberto,

proposals for alternate/split roots are commonplace. However, it is the
first time that an apparently State-sponsored organization is proposing
such a draft.
The general mood in IETF is that this proposal has very little chance of
passing the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). The question
then lies into "why was this proposed", and my personal take on this,
already shared on ISOC discussion lists, is that the author is looking
at ticking the box: "Tried submitting changes through IETF. Did not
work. Replace IETF with another organization."

Kind regards,

Olivier


On 30/06/2012 18:59, Roberto Gaetano wrote :
> Sorry for the late reply, I have a new computer and need to set my filters
> better, as this message ended up in the spam folder.
> I am not a technical guru, so I am asking the question to the ones who know.
> Isn't this what China is already doing for the IDNs under .cn? The only
> difference is that they are now trying to give an "official" status to the
> solution, methinks. If I get it correctly, now in China you can use
> [idn].[idn] because the ISPs point to a different tree, while from outside
> China you need to use [idn].[idn].cn. Do I get it right?
> Moreover, what are the chances that this draft gets any support in the IETF?
> Personally, I have serious doubts. But it would be good to be kept informed
> of the developments.
> Cheers,
> Roberto
>
>
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> Oggetto: [At-Large] China is going to divide the DNS
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns
>
> Each ISP - large enough to obtain a TLD from IANA for this purpose - should
> be allowed to create it's own DNS hierachy.
>
> This Chinese proposal is justified by the fact that the (U.S.) centrally
> managed name space represents a risk for the stable operation of the
> Internet. Following this draft different name spaces are spanned, each of
> them operated autonomously. Which domain names are allowed, added, or
> removed; how a domain name is resolved, is soley in the hand of the
> operators.
>
> Using the typical definition, that "the Internet is the transitive closure
> of all systems communicating bidirectional via Internet Protocol, which
> contains the DNS root servers", the Internet is splitted by this proposal.
>
> There is no reason to believe the rumours, that this proposal is a direct
> consequence of the ICANN desaster with new gTLDs.
>
> On the other hand, DNSSEC root keys at the end user systems define which
> root have to be used in the first place. This can be used to establish and
> protect the new name spaces.
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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