China Goes It Alone Again, This Time With DNS System
from the the-rest-of-the-world-can-suck-it dept
China certainly has a history of "going it alone" when it comes to technologies that are agree upon mostly throughout the world. It wants its own WiFi standard, its own 3G standard and its own DVD format. Is it really any surprise, then, that it's now going to use its own DNS system as well? This was pointed out by Broadband Reports, who notes the background of various countries being upset by ICANN's control over the DNS system. Others, surely, will suggest that this is yet another way for China to retain extra control over the internet -- which pretty likely has some part in this. However, it does seem clear, by this point, that China really just doesn't see much advantage in playing within international standards.
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China Standards
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Learn from Myanmar's Example
In Myanmar, the military regime had recently moved its capital from Yangon to the hick town of Pyinmana, based on the word of a fortune teller who predicted that US soldiers in ninja armor would come from the sky and take over Yangon. Now there is evidence that the high command is moving some of the government back to Yangon. The Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Than Shwe, is reported to have toured the hick town, where unpaved roads kick up vast dust clouds, government ministries cannot fit into the tiny buildings, and the buildings are far apart. He is quoted as saying "how the hell can anyone work here?"
The foreign ministry says that ministries that do international work have been moved back to Yangon, while the interior ministry and agriculture ministries are also preparing to move back.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20060301i201.htm
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shouldnt we be applauding this?
Also, as an American I feel a little hypocritical about chastizing China for going their own way, our country is founded on the principle of rugged individualism. I always think about how we still use US standard measurements and the rest of the world uses Metric (silly example, but makes you think).
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A country that has blocked any website discussing Taiwan, or anything political, creating a new DNS system is akin to Microsoft creating a new audio format. While it may be innovative and useful, its probable purpose should force us to condem it.
As far as I can tell, the only thing that has brought China to its current status is the cheap workforce and US outsourcing.
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Its a control thing
If their system was open like the current DNS standard there would be no problem. There is only ONE reason to keep things proprietary, to retain control, for reasons of self interest; most likely profit, or in the case or proprietary DNS, control of what you can "know".
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more convenient for hijack DNS
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The Two Grand Visions
b) it's not a scare tactic, they go for it, their Internet can't be used with the world's internet (domain conflicts etc.), companies stop outsourcing to China since they can't use the same Internet, world's innovation surpasses that of China's Internet, China sucks it, the world rests its case, China abandons their DNS by merging it in the global DNS and appending .cn to the domains or something like that, and we're done with it.
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for example Beijing's domain name is "BJ"
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naivete. You remind me of a small child that has
been caught with his hand in a cookie jar pointing
at a sibling and saying "he did it first".
No, we did it first. Envy is an ugly emotion.
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