Russia on the Internet begins the second "cold war"
“Russian authorities are considering a project to create an Internet in Cyrillic. Is this a regular bet on the control of Big Brother over fellow citizens?
The cold war with Russia is expanding, and it has a new front in addition to oil fields and territorial claims under water. This front is the internet. The Russian authorities are seeking to strengthen control over the Russian-speaking sector of the worldwide network. Apparently, their goal is to create an Internet that uses Cyrillic domain names and is completely autonomous from the “large” network.
True, there is one catch: the top-level domain assigned to Russia - .ru in ASCII - when transliterated into Cyrillic, turns into .py - the name of the domain that is occupied by Paraguay. This can create security problems for Russian users. Kim Davis, who tackles international domain names at Icann - an international organization that registers domain names, said in an interview with the Guardian: “Russia has a second-level top-level domain name - .su in ASCII code - but it seeks to register the name .rf in spelling in Cyrillic “.
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Wolfgant Kleinwachter, Special Advisor to the Chairperson of the UN Forum on Internet Governance, says: “The Russian Internet project will consider how they can better communicate within their own country. The internationalization of the domain name will give them the opportunity to do what is being tested in China, where they now use three top-level domain names written in Chinese characters: .net, .com and .cn. ""
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Our authorities have once again annealed. Instead of sorting out the Internet world in an amicable way and trying to improve the capabilities of the Russian Internet, to establish connections with other countries, at least online, we are again trying to show our “peculiarity” and unwillingness to cooperate. Such an attitude can lead to ignoring and blocking Russian users all over the Internet.
Friends habralyudi, I would like everyone to write their thoughts about this situation.
The cold war with Russia is expanding, and it has a new front in addition to oil fields and territorial claims under water. This front is the internet. The Russian authorities are seeking to strengthen control over the Russian-speaking sector of the worldwide network. Apparently, their goal is to create an Internet that uses Cyrillic domain names and is completely autonomous from the “large” network.
True, there is one catch: the top-level domain assigned to Russia - .ru in ASCII - when transliterated into Cyrillic, turns into .py - the name of the domain that is occupied by Paraguay. This can create security problems for Russian users. Kim Davis, who tackles international domain names at Icann - an international organization that registers domain names, said in an interview with the Guardian: “Russia has a second-level top-level domain name - .su in ASCII code - but it seeks to register the name .rf in spelling in Cyrillic “.
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Wolfgant Kleinwachter, Special Advisor to the Chairperson of the UN Forum on Internet Governance, says: “The Russian Internet project will consider how they can better communicate within their own country. The internationalization of the domain name will give them the opportunity to do what is being tested in China, where they now use three top-level domain names written in Chinese characters: .net, .com and .cn. ""
Article from itua.info/news/internet/12636.html
Our authorities have once again annealed. Instead of sorting out the Internet world in an amicable way and trying to improve the capabilities of the Russian Internet, to establish connections with other countries, at least online, we are again trying to show our “peculiarity” and unwillingness to cooperate. Such an attitude can lead to ignoring and blocking Russian users all over the Internet.
Friends habralyudi, I would like everyone to write their thoughts about this situation.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/18724/
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