[At-Large] [governance] Can anyone surf to peking university?

[Joe Baptista]

see comments below:

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:00 AM, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> Karl - I have no idea what your going on about - as usual.  In fact the
>> site
>> you are a looking at is the English default site for Peking University.
>>  The
>> site seen at http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.xn--fiqs8s/ is the same as
>>
>
> It's the same site as http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn which you can resolve
> perfectly well from the real root.


Real root?  What's that?  Are you implying the China root is any less real
then the IANA root.

Sorry John - but when 300 million people can resolve TLDs not found in the
IANA (real ??? root) using the China root I think thats as real as it gets -
don't you.


> I agree that ICANN needs to get its IDN act together,


It's too late for China.  In fact I doubt China will even apply to ICANN for
TLDs they have been operating now for over 6 years.  Their very REAL root
experiment has proven to them they don't need the added baggage ICANN brings
to the table.


> but the nonsense about "alternative" roots is really tired.


It never gets tiresome.  It is however very inconvenient to the ICANN
propaganda machine.  I agree with that.

cheers
joe baptista


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