See 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 åèåç[1] called "æååå" which translate roughly to 'Numerical Domain Name". They call it ADDA (All Digital Domain Address) and then later IPv9. (Okay, I laughed back then too so don't hold back yourself ;-)
The technology as I understand can be summarise as follows: The 10 digits they refer to are phone numbers (China uses 10 digit local phone number). The idea is that you can navigate the web by using phone numbers in the browser. The technology is basically a modified 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
Tony Hain wrote:
Sitting here in Seoul, Janet Sun (BII) said this is self-promotion of a single researcher looking to improve his funding. There is technical content, but no business content and the service providers are ignoring it as a waste of time. Think of it as E-164 on steroids.
Tony
-----Original Message----- From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Manning Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 6:10 PM To: jordi.palet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Chinese IPv9
% Complete compilation of news at http://www.ist- ipv6.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=622 % % But I guess is an hoax ? %
the site seems to be missing some of the chinese language reports... :) and based on (imho) more informed sources, this is not a hoax but a real effort.
--bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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