FUD: The story does not make sense (Score 1)

The first link (http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=10411& slug=INTERNET-POLICY-MII-DOMAIN%20NAME-DNS) says the new TLDs are in Chinese characters which translate to .com, .net and .china. Which is legal in IDNA architecture. If the root servers in US map the ASCII equivalents to correct IP addresses then there is no interoperability problem. The second link claims that China is building a new internet system. I think the author does not understand the internet architecture. Examples of .com in Chinese being converted to IDN http://www-950.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/ demo/domain?t=%E7%90%86%E5%AE%B9%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AB %E3%83%A0%E3%83%A9.%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD&x=20&y=18 You can input the other domain names and test for yourself. As I understand, in China the users input .com and the browsers (or the lookup mechanism.. not sure which) first try to map .co.cn to an IP address, if that fails they try .com. This was creating a problem, but a minor one.