ICANN: Russia has no ' separate Web '

Chairman of the Board of Directors of ICANN and one of the ' fathers of the Internet ' Vint Cerf denies reports that ICANN is going to ' break down ' root server, allowing other countries to build their own independent Internet.

Recall that the idea of ​​' separate Russian Internet ' has started in July, after the Security Council adopted a strategy of information society development in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has pledged to make Russia one of the leading global information space exactly to the Olympics. Soon after it was reported from ' a source in uniform ' who asserted that 'our analogue of the Internet should be completely independent of the traditional World Wide Web '.

Earlier also there were reports that China and some Arab countries have already agreed with ICANN on how to create in these countries own root server, independent from ICANN. In particular, users in the Arab world, picking up the site address ' Red Cross ', forwarded to the local site ' Red Crescent '. Similar stories happen with users in China are gaining service address allow Google - and get on the local Baidu.

Last week, the flames poured the Washington Post. Together with the already well-known stories about ' blogging buying the Kremlin ' she gave an interesting statement by Wolfgang Klyaynvoshera, Councillor ogranizatsii Internet Governance Forum ( special structure of the UN ). This person claims that he was asked by representatives of Russian authorities, who are really going to build a ...

The day before yesterday at the next congress of ICANN magazine The Register asked Vint Cerf, whether or not China has recently supported some root servers, and whether such a ' splitting ' to continue. That's what the chairman said, ICANN:.

' The root servers are not split. There are some proponents of the idea of ​​' alternate roots ', but there are few, and their attempts are ineffective. China has no its root servers, separate from the system of ICANN, all Chinese domain names work in a standard top-level domain. cn. Although the Chinese have a system that allows. cn is automatically added to some special local domains, and this can lead to the fact that references to these addresses do not work from abroad '.

Vint Cerf also said that the advocates of the idea of ​​' alternate roots ' ignore the danger that may create a duplicate top-level domains: this will lead to failure of the universal addressing, where each domain name leads to a specific address.