ICANN: Russia will not have a "separate Internet"
ICANN Chairman of the Board and one of the “fathers of the Internet” Vint Cerf denies reports that ICANN is going to “split” the root servers, giving other countries the opportunity to build their own independent Internet.
Recall that the idea of a “separate Russian Internet” appeared in July after the Security Council approved the strategy for the development of the information society in Russia, and President Vladimir Putin promised to make Russia one of the leaders of the global information space right for the Olympics. Shortly thereafter, information appeared from a “source in uniform”, who claimed that “our analogue of the Internet should be completely independent of the traditional World Wide Web”.
Earlier, there were also reports that China and some Arab countries have already agreed with ICANN to create their own root servers in these countries, independent of ICANN. In particular, users in Arab countries, dialing the address of the site of the Red Cross, are redirected to the local site of the Red Crescent. Similar stories happen with users in China who are gaining access to Google services - and get to the local Baidu.
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Last week, the Washington Post added fuel to the fire. Together with already known stories about “buying up blogs by the Kremlin,” she quoted an interesting statement by Wolfgang Kleinwosher, adviser to the organization of the Internet Governance Forum (a special structure at the UN). This specialist claims that he was approached by representatives of the Russian authorities who are really going to build a “separate Cyrillic Internet” and are studying China’s experience in this area.
The day before yesterday at the next ICANN congress, The Register magazine asked Vint Cerf whether China really supports individual root servers and whether such splitting will continue. Here is what the ICANN Board Chairman said:
“Root servers are not split. There are some supporters of the idea of "alternative roots", but so far there are few of them and their attempts are ineffective. China does not have its own root servers, separate from the ICANN system, all Chinese domain names operate in the standard top-level domain .cn. Although the Chinese have a system by which .cn is automatically added to some special local domains, and this can lead to the fact that links to these addresses do not work from abroad. "
Vint Cerf also noted that advocates of the “alternative roots” idea ignore the danger that duplication of top-level domains can create: this will lead to a failure of universal addressing, when each domain name leads to one specific address.
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Recall that the idea of a “separate Russian Internet” appeared in July after the Security Council approved the strategy for the development of the information society in Russia, and President Vladimir Putin promised to make Russia one of the leaders of the global information space right for the Olympics. Shortly thereafter, information appeared from a “source in uniform”, who claimed that “our analogue of the Internet should be completely independent of the traditional World Wide Web”.
Earlier, there were also reports that China and some Arab countries have already agreed with ICANN to create their own root servers in these countries, independent of ICANN. In particular, users in Arab countries, dialing the address of the site of the Red Cross, are redirected to the local site of the Red Crescent. Similar stories happen with users in China who are gaining access to Google services - and get to the local Baidu.
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Last week, the Washington Post added fuel to the fire. Together with already known stories about “buying up blogs by the Kremlin,” she quoted an interesting statement by Wolfgang Kleinwosher, adviser to the organization of the Internet Governance Forum (a special structure at the UN). This specialist claims that he was approached by representatives of the Russian authorities who are really going to build a “separate Cyrillic Internet” and are studying China’s experience in this area.
The day before yesterday at the next ICANN congress, The Register magazine asked Vint Cerf whether China really supports individual root servers and whether such splitting will continue. Here is what the ICANN Board Chairman said:
“Root servers are not split. There are some supporters of the idea of "alternative roots", but so far there are few of them and their attempts are ineffective. China does not have its own root servers, separate from the ICANN system, all Chinese domain names operate in the standard top-level domain .cn. Although the Chinese have a system by which .cn is automatically added to some special local domains, and this can lead to the fact that links to these addresses do not work from abroad. "
Vint Cerf also noted that advocates of the “alternative roots” idea ignore the danger that duplication of top-level domains can create: this will lead to a failure of universal addressing, when each domain name leads to one specific address.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/15762/
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