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Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domainname?

  • From: Brad Knowles
  • Date: Mon Jul 04 08:08:02 2005 
At 11:26 AM +0100 2005-07-04, [email protected] wrote:


 I think that the marketing people are going to win
 this one. There is no marketable benefit to the ICANN
 root zone but there are clear advantages for countries
 using non-Latin alphabets to switch to a root zone that
 allows for their own language to be used in domain names.
That works, up until the point where India decides to use a different alternative root solution than China does. That works, up until the point where the inexperienced alternative root operators screw something up and their entire "expanded" Internet goes down, while the real root servers continue normal operations.

The balkanization of the 'net is something to be avoided at all possible costs.

 Turkey was recently mentioned and that is also a country
 that uses a non-Latin alphabet.
It doesn't matter how many non-Latin alphabets you introduce. What matters is that there can be only one root.

--
Brad Knowles, <[email protected]>

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