Hello On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Eduardo A. Suárez < esuarez@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar> wrote:

Hi,

I can reach

http://北京大学.cn/

The URL looks strange, it doesn't work.

and

http://www.pku.edu.cn/

The correct Punycode is xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn so the URL will be http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn/

These URL's work. The issue is not whether Peking University's website is accessible, the issue is that of China maintaining its own national root, and its cabability to shut down access of the domain names under its control for the rest of the world. Whether or not this issue concerning the URL of the Peking University is accurately reported or not, the underlying issue is valid. (As an update of the message in the at-Large list, now cross posted at the Internet Governace Caucus mailing list, Joe Baptista actually has made some anti-ICANN statements, and makes a bizarre suggestion that each nation should maintain its own root away from ICANN. He says that it is also his comment to NTIA.. He is receiving fitting responses that are interesting) IDN policy development, in this context, may have to pay attention to the importance of preserving the root server infrastructure as globally accessible and not give any room for any possibility of alternate root or restricted or restrictable DNS infrastructure that could make it possible for a whole script or region being shut down for the rest of the world. Sivasubramanian M.

Cheers, Eduardo.-

Quoting Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn@gmail.com>:

Hello,

...

Posting this here as this is pertinent to IDN policy and needs to be followed.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy ALAC IDN Liaison.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Baptista <baptista@publicroot.org> Date: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:23 PM Subject: [At-Large] Can anyone surf to peking university? To: governance@lists.cpsr.org, At-Large Worldwide < at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org>

This is the official URL for Peking University - it's in IDN

http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.xn--fiqs8s/

how many people here can surf to that URL? I can see it. but any one on the ICANN root can't. Chinese domains can only be seen in china or to those outside china who see the chinese root system.

cheers joe baptista

p.s. where is icann in this equation?

-- Joe Baptista

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