[LINK] Chinese address dispute threatens to split internet

[Tony Barry]

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Source: Ken Rutkowski's Daily Tech News Clicks Wednesday January 3, 2001

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<http://www.economictimes.com/today/03tech12.htm>Chinese address 
dispute threatens to split internet India's Economic Times Cyberspace 
has long been a seamless world, where data packets' only allegiance 
is to the imperative of quick transmission. A centrally administered 
addressing system has kept it so. Now, however, a tug-of-war is 
threatening to disrupt that system and snarl efforts to make the 
internet universal. The struggle pits Verisign the US company that 
keeps track of addresses with those well-known endings like ".Com" 
and ".Org" -- against China's government.
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