IPv9: China's Internet Technology → It's about politics and control

Talk about thought control...

The design of IPv9 accomplishes for internet what CALEA put into place for US voice networks: an method of gov't monitoring with essentially no third party controls or safeguards against abuse, only the word of the gov't itself.

Of course, China is not the US. Government control and monitoring of the Internet and telephone system is a fact of existence there. Nonetheless, some users manage to hide their identities using the weaknesses of IPv4.

China will no longer have any form of anonymous internet access or website access using IPv9. Its design and architecture will enable the government to exercise strict regulatory control over all nameservers, webservers, and IP addresses in the country. Traffic and content monitoring are enabled by the very design of the network. The gov't would have ready control and monitoring over gateways to the outside world as well.

(Of course, the Chinese gov't would then have no excuse to allow spamming.. if they really cared. They'd be just as likely to say "it doesn't hurt us and we like the money it brings in". They might even split the profits with the spammers by taxing the access.)

IPv9 is just what FBI and other three letter agencies would propose for the US so as to allow their complete VoIP, email and traffic monitoring in the US. Now they just have to get it past the politicians, the press and the public. Which could happen... we do need homeland security above all else, you know. Just like China.

So where are you getting this info from? www.chinatechnews.com seems to be completely bogged down right now (probably due to getting Slashdotted).

THANK YOU!!!! I can't believe nobody realizes this is a pre-emptive strike by China to ensure strict censorship of all information getting to the Chinese people. In the Tianamen Square demonstrations, the Chinese students were able to get a lot of information in and out to the globe using email and fax -- and think about how primitive technology was then. This is a move by the same guys who enslaved Tibet to make sure there are no more Tianamen Squares. I'm assuming this would break the software coming out of the Freenet Project »freenet.sourceforge.net/ which the Chinese government has gone on record as opposing.