HI Stefano, Thanks your reply!
I understand your concerns! Anyway I would like to keep the ownership unchanged, as I take it as kind of glory (this explains why I had spent 2+ yrs on brokering it). some day I would donate this domain to the Community, but it's not now. I'll get in touch with DD China, and ask for them for updates. With respect, -Joseph.c On 20 May 2012 00:11, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:13:20PM +0800, Joseph Chen wrote: > > To Whom it may concern, > > > > I recently acquired the domain name Debian.cn and am planing to develop > it > > as Debian China Community. > > Hi Joseph, many thanks for having done that and for interest in using > "debian.cn" for the Debian community in China. > > As Debian Project Leader I had to deal with various aspects of debian.* > 2nd level domain ownership. Out of those experiences, I recommend > handing over the domain ownership to a Debian Trusted Organization. > We're happy to trust individuals who care about Debian with domain > ownership, but experience tells us that people might lose interest in > the long run (e.g. years from now). If/when that happens, having an > independent organization trusted by Debian as domain owner would make > things much simpler for us. > > Note that I'm talking solely about domain ownership here, not about what > gets done with the domain (see below for that). We can easily arrange > for Debian to own the domain and let you and the local Chinese community > decide what to do with it. > > However, I haven't checked the rules for .cn domain ownership myself and > I've no idea if, for instance, a non-Chinese organization can own a .cn > domain. If you, or anyone else, could look into that, I'd be very > grateful. > > > My current plan is to launch a forum initially, then have some > > documents translated to Chinese. Wondering do you have any suggestion > > please? If we can make any arrangements, I would be very pleased to > > help around to make a wonderful website. > > We don't have a standard procedure to decide what to do with debian.* > 2nd level domains, but in several occasions we have left the choice to > the local Debian community in the country. It is generally preferred if > local Debian Developers are part of the decision, as that guarantees > some link between what gets done with the domain and the Debian Project. > > So, what I'd recommend is to contact Chinese Debian Developers and > discuss with them what would be the best use for debian.cn to pursue > Debian interests in China. There seems to be no debian-devel-chinese > mailing list, unfortunately, but you can look up Debian Developers in > China starting from http://db.debian.org/ > > Hope this helps, > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . > Maître de conférences ...... http://upsilon.cc/zack ...... . . o > Debian Project Leader ....... @zack on identi.ca ....... o o o > « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » > -- joseph chen Admon Project - http://www.Admon.org
