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China Deploys IPv9 Network
jeber writes "At the New Generation Internet Ten-Digit Network Industrialization & Development Seminar held on June 25th at Zhejiang University, it was announced that China's Internet technology, IPv9, had been formally adapted and popularized into the civil and commercial sectors.
Based on a ten-digit computing method, IPv9 has its own address protocol, nameplate protocol, transitional protocol, and digital domain name regulations and standards as stated by Mr. Xie Jianping, founder of the IPv9 protocol and leader of the Ten-Digit Network Technology Standard Team. Along with being compatible with IPv4 and IPv6, IPv9 can also realize logistic separations between them and safely control them. On small-scale trials in Shanghai's Changing and Jinshan Districts, IPv9 technology has proven stable and safe."
There is a 1994 RFC here: http://rfc.net/rfc1606.html. Everything else Google came up with was in Chinese and, thus, just as unusable!
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...that goes to eleven!
Where can you go from 9? I want one that's at least one louder.
The only reason I can see is that the chinese
want to make the computers available to their population incompatible with the rest of the world on the Internet. Then they can filter/look into/controll al traffic at the gateways.
For the masses this may actually work. Competent indiciduals will still get through, but it weill require some effort.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
The full text of this article from The Economist follows. The original content is subscriber-only; it is reproduced here in the hope and expectation that you will find it useful.
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Technology in China
The allure of low technology
Dec 18th 2003 | BEIJING AND HONG KONG
From The Economist print edition
China's misguided attempts to become a high-tech economy
THE country's success in putting a man into space this October, only the third nation to do so, was more than just a boost to national pride. It signalled the Chinese government's intention to turn the world's workshop into a technological powerhouse. With an abundance of cheap engineers, growing research spending and plenty of useful foreign intellectual property on hand (and not terribly well protected), many of the necessary building blocks would appear to be in place. To the consternation of many firms in the rich world, China has already become a big exporter of electronic components, DVD players and digital cameras. Chinese manufacturers, such as Legend in personal computers and Ningbo Bird in mobile-phone handsets, have seized leading positions in China's domestic market. A few--such as TCL, a TV manufacturer; Huawei, which makes telecoms switching gear; and Haier, a white-goods group--are building a global presence.
This is threatening to inflame already raw trade relations with the rest of the world. The prime minister, Wen Jiabao, recently called on America to open its high-tech sector to China in return for trade concessions. Meanwhile, in a bald display of protectionism, foreign computer- and chip-makers have been banned (since December 1st) from selling some wireless products in China unless they incorporate Chinese encryption standards sourced from 11 named Chinese firms. If the rule is enforced, Dell, Intel, Sony and others may have to choose between sharing technology or curtailing shipments to China.
A handful
So will China become the next technology superpower? Actually, probably not--at least, not anytime soon. Its successes so far are restricted to a handful of firms, most are either protected or exceptional, rising through cracks in China's planned economy. On December 10th, at a seminar in Beijing on Chinese technology organised by China Economic Quarterly, a research publication, Ming Zeng, a professor at Insead, near Paris, and Beijing's Cheung Kong Business School (and a noted optimist on Chinese firms) admitted: "I spent five years hunting for examples of successful high-tech companies in China. After all that work, I can only find three or four."
Overall, China's technology base remains limited and the capital infrastructure needed to produce advanced, high-tech goods largely absent. And while more and more high-tech goods are made in China, almost all the value is being captured by foreign companies (see chart). Writing in the quarterly, Daniel Rosen, a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, argues that, on close inspection, "China's high-tech exports turn out not to be so very high-tech--nor, indeed, very Chinese."
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Of $325 billion of exports in 2002, China's Ministry of Commerce rated only 20% as genuinely high-tech. And those were mostly mature commodities, such as DVD players and laser printers. The brains of these machines, namely their semiconductor chips, were almost all imported--reflected in China's high-tech trade deficit of around $15 billion. What's more, 85% of its high-tech exports between January and August 2003 were accounted for by foreign enterprises in China.
It is the same story with semiconductors, an industry China has explicitly targeted for development. The country is a voracious consumer of chips and an increasingly important location for silicon-wafer plants,