China has already added some Chinese-language top-level domains to their DNS namespace.
The underlying problem here is Zooko's triangle: nobody has demonstrated a global namespace that is, in Zooko's words, secure, decentralized, and human-meaningful. Centralized systems inherently have central points of failure. Approaches like dot-p2p and Telecomix do not tackle this problem and will therefore not improve the situation.
There are a number of projects trying to tackle the problem by means of petnames, using non-human-meaningful identifiers in the global namespace (so they can be secure and decentralized). Git is probably the most prominent, but others include Freenet and Tahoe-LAFS, and there are quite a number of similar projects that are not yet public. Unfortunately, none of them are currently a replacement for the World-Wide Web, a problem I wrote about at some length in this unfinished essay in 2006: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2006-Novembe...
The underlying problem here is Zooko's triangle: nobody has demonstrated a global namespace that is, in Zooko's words, secure, decentralized, and human-meaningful. Centralized systems inherently have central points of failure. Approaches like dot-p2p and Telecomix do not tackle this problem and will therefore not improve the situation.
There are a number of projects trying to tackle the problem by means of petnames, using non-human-meaningful identifiers in the global namespace (so they can be secure and decentralized). Git is probably the most prominent, but others include Freenet and Tahoe-LAFS, and there are quite a number of similar projects that are not yet public. Unfortunately, none of them are currently a replacement for the World-Wide Web, a problem I wrote about at some length in this unfinished essay in 2006: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2006-Novembe...