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<div>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: [Fwd: "Russia will create independent Cyrillic WEB"]<br>Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:41:42 +0800<br>From: Horacio T. Cadiz <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:hcadiz@ph.net" target="_blank">
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NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br> ><br> >> Subject: [ssac] "Russia will create independent Cyrillic WEB"<br> >><br> >> This is only partly about IDNs (and IDN TLDs). More centrally, it
<br> >> seems to be about an alternate root or network in not only Russia,<br> >> but also the other CIS states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,<br> >> Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and
<br> >> Uzbekistan).<br> >><br> >> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cawa.fr/rossiya-spletet-sobstvennuyu-v-ev-ev" target="_blank">http://www.cawa.fr/rossiya-spletet-sobstvennuyu-v-ev-ev
</a>-<br> >> e.pautina.rus-article001436.html<br> >><br> >> Translated from the original Russian article authored by<br> >> Konstantin Getmansky at Russia's premier newspaper web-site<br> >>
<br> >> (Note : A few days after the announcement below by President Putin<br> >> at the Security Council meeting of the Russian Federation, further<br> >> Russian language press reports appeared stating that the Security
<br> >> committee within the Russian Duma (parliament) had publicly<br> >> enodorsed Putin's initiative)<br> >>> At the latest session of Security Council of the Russian<br> >>> Federation it's been declared that by 2015 Russia will become one
<br> >>> of the leaders of the global information space. This matter<br> >>> includes the creation in Russia of its own web.<br> >><br> >> Russian analogue of the Internet will be completely independent
<br> >> from the traditional World Wide Web (www) and at first stage of<br> >> the project is going to include the CIS countries. This<br> >> information was received from a governmental source.<br> >>
<br> >> There are several reasons for creation of an independent network<br> >> in Russia.<br> >><br> >> Firstly, there are reasons related to information safety and<br> >> security. Today it is a matter of fact that Russian users are
<br> >> accessing the Internet via channels which are in the control of<br> >> the US government. Experts say there is the potential for the US<br> >> to block these channels in the hypothetical scenario of an adverse
<br> >> development in the bilateral relationship between Russia and USA.<br> >><br> >> Secondly, at present only the US is engaged in the process of<br> >> making decisions relating to the distribution of domain names
<br> >> amongst all the countries. Thus in essence the US is operating and<br> >> supervising all global Internet traffic.<br> >><br> >> Two years ago in Tunis at the United Nations World Summit of the
<br> >> Information Society (WSIS) the rights for making decisions<br> >> relating to the distribution of domain names between the countries<br> >> was reviewed for change but ultimately remained under the US-
<br> >> controlled organization - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names<br> >> and Numbers (ICANN). This occurred against the will of the other<br> >> countries such as Russia, India and China.<br> >>
<br> >> At the same Tunis summit the US senator - Republican Norm Kohlman<br> >> - declared, that only the US can have a supervisory role over the<br> >> Internet. He strongly rejected any idea for transferring any
<br> >> Internet authority to the United Nations. Further he labeled the<br> >> United Nations as absolutely incompetent and corrupt.<br> >><br> >> Thirdly, domain names in the proposed independent Russian network
<br> >> will use a Cyrillic script. Those proposing this project say it<br> >> will help to strengthen the influence of Russia in the CIS<br> >> countries. They further say that it will also increase the status
<br> >> of the Russian language in the countries of Commonwealth territories.<br> >><br> >> It is not determined yet what organizations will undertake the<br> >> creation of the Russian web and how much it will cost. Also it is
<br> >> not clear yet, how the Russian network will interact with the<br> >> traditional World Wide Web.<br> >><br> >> By the way, a similar project of an independent computer network<br> >> already exists in China and is in development in the Arabic
<br> >> countries. They have the same motives : safety, creation of an<br> >> independent cyber space for their own language communities and the<br> >> convenience of using of the Internet for their native language
<br> >> speakers.<br> >><br> >><br> ><br><br><br>--- Bombim Cadiz<br>*****************************************<br>* Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) -- *<br>* No windows. No gates. It is open. *
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