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Is China Preparing to Go its Own Way with its Own Internet Root?
China has made a fundamental breakthrough in its Internet development; and initial tests have been successful. China is set to be the birth place of decimal networking technology making China the only country able to unify domains, IP addresses and MAC addresses into the text of a metric system. The second, after the United States (US), in the world to have root servers and IP address hardware connectivity servers and its own domain name, IP address and MAC address resources; and enables our country to become the world’s second country (after the US) to possess and control scarce network resources such as network distribution, domain names and the web address. It puts a crack in the US’s monopoly over the Internet, based on hexadecimal technology; and is a major, independent technical development for the Internet in China.

