more on Intriguing Progress of China's IPv9 Network Technology

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: James Seng <james () seng cc>
Date: July 5, 2004 7:23:02 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Intriguing Progress of China's IPv9 Network 
Technology

dave, for IPer.

http://james.seng.cc/node/view/235

I receive some email from friends asking me if I know of the recent 
IPv9 news from China. I thought I should just blog about it and point 
them to this entry.

I heard of them first time back in 2001. The technology is developed by 
a company called 十进制网[1] called "数字域名" which translate roughly to 
'Numerical Domain Name". They decided to call it IPv9 in English 
however. (Okay, I laugh back then too so don't hold back yourself ;-)

The technology as I understand can be summarise as follows: The 10 
digit they refer to are phone numbers (China uses 10 digital local 
phone number). The idea is that you can navigate the web by using phone 
numbers in the browser. The 'technology' is basically a modify DNS and 
the business model is to get you to registered your phone numbers with 
them.

So it isn't really IP as you would think. But despite these, they seem 
pretty well connected in China and have support from Ministry of 
Information Industry (MII) among others. However, I have not seen any 
actual deployment anywhere. Lots of press release but thats about it.

ps: There is a article in Sina.com[2] explaining the technology pretty 
well but it is written in Chinese.

[1] http://www.em777.net/
[2] http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/w/2004-06-28/2331380918.shtml

-James Seng

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