[TriLUG] Connectivity to china

[Greg Brown]

Um.. most of my links and documentation from that project were retained 
by Agere.  Here's a little information on some of the recent changes:

There was once a great wall between China Telecommunications and 
competition. But in hopes of improving telecom service, the Chinese 
government has created a rival to the state-owned incumbent 
local-exchange carrier and broken up its monopoly. China 
Telecommunications, known as China Telecom Group, once the nation's 
only provider of fixed-line local and long-distance phone services, has 
been split into two companies. The surviving China Telecom, through its 
subsidiary China Telecom Corporation , operates networks in provinces 
in the south and west of China. Its newly created competitor, China 
Netcom Group , operates in provinces in the north

So depending on where in China the company is I would contact China 
Telecom or China Netcom.  They should be able to fill you in on all the 
details.

Other links that may be of some use are:
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/
The Chinese Embassy in the United States

and

http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/default.htm
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

I'd still start with the telecom companies.

<shameless plug>
Your company wouldn't need an US/Asian consultant or company rep, would 
you?  Granted I only speak about three words of Chinese, two of 
Japanese, and enough Korea to get by but I'm a fast study on foreign 
languages.  And spending some quality professional time in Asia would 
be fantastic. ;)  If needed I could provide some Korean references.
</shameless plug>

Greg

On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 10:49 US/Eastern, Marvin Blackburn wrote:

> Greg,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  Do you know where I might find some more 
> information
> on this?
>
> ------------------
> Marvin Blackburn
> Systems Administrator
> Glen Raven
> "He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org
>> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Greg Brown
>> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 10:42 AM
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Connectivity to china
>>
>> I've been down that path..  basically what the Chinese
>> officials are worried about is the ability of someone in
>> China to use a "private"
>> network to then gain access to "inappropriate materials" like
>> why one economic theory or system might be better than
>> another.  Whatever.  So China has created what is fondly know
>> of as "The Great Firewall of China" to filter out such bad things.
>>
>> So you can do one of two things:
>>
>> 1. place a govt. approved filtering firewall behind whatever
>> mechanism you choose to interconnect your offices (leased
>> line, VPN over Internet, whatever) 2. sign a waiver saying
>> that you have such filters in place.. but be warned, the
>> chinese can be a bit harsh if they think you have signed a
>> waiver saying you are filtering and it turns out you are not.
>>
>> That's what I recall about the entire process.  Granted this
>> was in 1999, so things may have changed a bit.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 09:53 US/Eastern, Marvin Blackburn wrote:
>>
>>> My boss has asked me to look into any "legal" issues with
>> having some
>>> customers in china Connecting to our servers.
>>>
>>> Not really sure how to start, but would appreciate some pointers if
>>> anyone has any.
>>> We use hpux (with ssh) and standard redhat linux servers.
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------
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>>> Systems Administrator
>>> Glen Raven
>>> "He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
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