Warning over 'broken up' internet

[Rubber Duck]

And its not just the Duck who is saying it!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6037345.stm

The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned.

Nitin Desai, chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), set up by the UN, warned that concerns over the net's future could lead to separation.....


"If I look at the internet in five years from now there are going to be very, very, very more internet users in Asia than Europe or America.

"There will be more Chinese web pages than English pages....

"A large proportion of the internet users in China do not know the Latin alphabet.

"There are concerns about internationalised domain names in some countries who feel the debate is not moving fast enough."

He warned: "I think this is one of the key issues and if we don't address it with sufficient vigour we will get a Balkanisation of the net." ......

 

[Tia Wood]

It might be a good thing. Then again, will there be restrictions on who can access what?

 

[Ridge]

wouldn't this bring up issues of who owns what domain and under what network?

 

[RazorNF]

There was also some press some time ago about the Chinese thinking about going it on their own, over ongoing concerns of US control over the Internet's infrastructure. In theory if it were to go that route, it could open the way to sites using the same domain name, but on different countries' networks, which you'd have to access through some national gateway...

 

[Irish31]

I can see this being a very good thing, or a very bad thing. No grey area folks.



Jay

 

[DomainEngineer]

IDNs will cause major security issues all over the internet and may become a major liability for the internet. Just my opinion.

 

[RazorNF]

IDNs will cause major security issues all over the internet and may become a major liability for the internet. Just my opinion.

True... and IDN's may not have been a very good fix for incorporating Chinese language names anyways. If I'm not mistaken, not all Chinese words can be created because there is overlap in characters with japanese, traditional, simplified chinese, etc.

 

[DomainEngineer]

True... and IDN's may not have been a very good fix for incorporating Chinese language names anyways. If I'm not mistaken, not all Chinese words can be created because there is overlap in characters with japanese, traditional, simplified chinese, etc.

IDN = Internationalized Dangerous Names :censored:

Banks and major financial institutions will dread the IDNs and individual people will be at great risk of getty robbed by sites that just look like their own bank.

May be thats what is causing problems with IDN adoption imo

 

[JuniperPark]

Yes, this is all very interesting, but what are we going to do about the Canadians? Put them on their own internet? "The Eh? Network"?

LOL

 

[Olney]

Japanese & Chinese does have characters & terms that overlap
But for ASCII domains doesn't French, English, Spanish & Itialian do too?

True... and IDN's may not have been a very good fix for incorporating Chinese language names anyways. If I'm not mistaken, not all Chinese words can be created because there is overlap in characters with japanese, traditional, simplified chinese, etc.