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CNNIC Milestones
On June 3, 1997, entrusted by the Office of Informatization
Promotion Leading Group of State Council, CAS set up China
Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which takes the
liability of China's national Internet information center.
On October 12, 1998, CNNIC hosted the first "Internet
Address Resources Administration Symposium".
On October 18, 1999, CNNIC hosted "the Symposium on the
Internet Administration and Y2K Problems".
On January 18, 2000, CNNIC officially launched the trial system
of Chinese domain name.
On May 19, 2000, Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC) was
jointly established by CNNIC, TWNIC, HKNIC (now HKIRC) and
MONIC in Beijing.
On June 3, 2000, CNNIC obtained the authentication of ISO9002
quality certification system.
On June 5, 2000, CNNIC built up its call center. The 800 toll
free consultation hotline service was available to domestic
registrants thereafter.
On July 18, 2000, Qian Hualin, the vice chair of CNNIC steering
committee was elected the chair of Asia-Pacific Top Level
Domains (APTLD).
In July 2000, CNNIC, JPNIC, TWNIC, KRNIC (now NIDA) jointly
founded Joint Engineering Team (JET), and held the first organization
meeting in Beijing.
On November 1, 2000, CNNIC entrusted China International Economic
and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) with the mission
of establish Chinese Domain Name Dispute Resolution Institution.
On October 7, 2000, The Ministry of Information Industry (MII)
started to normalize the service and administration of domestic
Chinese Domain Name registration, and accredited CNNIC as
the sole registry of Chinese domain name.
On March 2, Professor Qian Hualin, the CNNIC recommended senior
Internet expert, was elected as one of the Executive Committee
members of Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC).
On November 2001, CNNIC launched the Internet Keyword service.
On January 7, CNNIC's requisition of conducting ENUM application
test was approved by MII. The implementation was led by the
Telecom Administration Bureau of MII.
In January 2002, CNNIC established IPv6 trial network which
connected with many oversea ISPs.
In April 2002, CNNIC established the test bed of DNS root
server that is compatible with IPv6 and IPv4 addresses.
On May 21, 2002, CNNIC submitted "Chinese Name String
in Search-based access Model for the DNS" to IETF.
On June 11, 2002, the Internet Policy and Resource Committee
of the Internet Society of China (ISC) was funded in Beijing.
CNNIC run the secretariat.
On September 25, CNNIC published "CNNIC Implementing
Rules of Domain Name Registration", "Rules for CNNIC
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy" and "CNNIC
Registrar Accreditation Policy".
From October 27 to 31, CNNIC and ISC jointly hosted ICANN
Shanghai Meetings.
On March 17, 2003, the second level of .CN naming space opened
to the public. The registrant may register their names directly
under .CN ccTLD.
On June 26, 2003, Professor Qian Hualin, the vice Chair of
CNNIC steering committee was appointed as a member of ICANN
Board of Directors with tree years' term.
From September 26 to 27, 2003, CNNIC hosted "the Asia
pacific Symposium on the Internet Statistical Technology"
in Beijing. During the meeting, CNNIC proposed and led to
form the Asia-Pacific Internet Research Alliance (APIRA).
The initiate member organizations also included KRNIC (Now
NIDA - National Internet Development Agency of Korea), City
University of Hong Kong, University of Macao and Taiwan Network
Information Center (TWNIC).
In April 2004, IETF formally issued its RFC 3743 with the
tile of "Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Registration and Administration
for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean". This document was
jointly drafted by CNNIC, TWNIC, JPNIC and KRNIC (now NIDA).
On June 22, 2004, CNNIC's research base on IPv6 domain name
root server, which is also a key task of "Knowledge Innovation
Project" of Chinese Academy of Sciences, was successfully
certified and accepted by the expert group in Changing.
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