Institute for Internet Policy & Law @ Beijing Normal University

With only 10% of the Internet penetration in the whole population, China is now developing the broadband network to bridge the digital divide. One interesting characteristic of the Chinese broadband traffic is that peer-to-peer transmission occupies almost a half. The Chinese peer-to-peer traffic has become several times of American broadband traffic. These features means, on one hand, China has a great potential for Web 2.0 services; on the other, Internet piracy has become extremely serious.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-06/00401547188.shtml

The MII officials have announced that P2P transmission will not be blocked but should be utilized reasonably.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-07/04131549559.shtml

A Compulsory Standard for Digital TVs are supposed to be implemented on August 1, 2007. However, the Standard that actually merged two existing standards developed by Tsinghua and Jiaotong University respectively is still not supported by any chip or equipment. Without the hardware support, the implementation is going to be empty. This is going to be another compulsory standard after WAPI for wireless network connection.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2007-06-05/04111544962.shtml

This is the slogan on the board held high by a protesters when Bill Gates delivered his speech at Beijing University. The protester claims to be the chief representative of Linux Professional Institute (LPI). To strive for open source software, he changed his name from Wang Yang into Wang OpenSource. Microsoft responded that they respect every one’s right of speech.

This is tenth visit of Mr. Gates to China. He just received a honorary PhD from Tsinghua University.

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/p/2007-04-20/110312826613.shtml;

http://tech.sina.com.cn/gates_china/index.html

Early discovery of the suspected backdoor in Windows XP Professional version reveals the urgency of implementation of open source and regulation of governmental procurement.

http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/200706/news-gb2312-415397.html

MII is going to publish another ICT technical standard, which is on the searching technology of text messages via mobile phones. On the basis of domain name system, the new technology moves the Internet naming and locating technology onto the mobile network. It is not clear whether the new governmental standard is exactly the one developed by the MobNIC, the associate of mobile operators (Unicom and China Mobile).

http://msn.ynet.com/view.jsp?oid=19644081

Chinese domain names market has always been active. Ten of thousands of “corn worms” are registering and selling domain names every days. The Chinese translation for domain names sounds like “corns”, so the traders of domain names are called “corn worms”.

Recently, the CNNIC launched a “One RMB Yuan per CN Domain Name” campaign to compete with the domain names registered under gTLDs, particularly “.com”. The campaign seems effective for registration volume of CN domain leaps to 1.8 million. Comparing with 1.94 million “.com” domain names, CN domain names are catching up very quickly.

However, individuals are still not eligible to register CN domain names under the Registration Policy. As a result, individuals have to use the registrars as their proxies. Many disputes are caused by such unclear and undefined agency relationship.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-03-17/01321420915.shtml;

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-03-17/01311420913.shtml