Here's a pithy response from Milton Mueller to the previous post. Carlton Samuels The University of the West Indies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> Date: 2009/6/16 Subject: RE: [governance] 300 million people have spoken with one voice "WE To: "governance@lists.cpsr.org" <governance@lists.cpsr.org> ________________________________ From: publicroot.info@gmail.com [mailto:publicroot.info@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Joe Baptista So - who here can see the Chinese National TLD system? Who can surf to Peking University at its official web site address used extensively in china http://北京大学.中国/ The above URL works for me. It doesn't work for me. NATIONALIZE YOUR ROOT. One of the virtues of the Internet was that it broke communication out of the boxes national governments created for it. One of the reasons we should favor de-nationalization of ICANN is to keep it out of that box. Create your own TLD infrastructure that owes no allegiance to ICANN or the U.S. government. And fragment the world. Great. ____________________________________________________________