From Southern Weekend, translated by ESWN:
Several tens of millions of Chinese bloggers are concerned about the fate of their blogs. On October 31, this reporter learned that the real-name blogger registration system is about to enter on the agenda list of the Ministry of Information Industry. This means that there is a chance that test trials of the real-name blogger registration system will be held soon.
This piece of news came from the second research team meeting of the Chinese Internet Society held on October 31.
According to what the reporter learned, the opinions of the Internet research team members have been synthesized and the Internet administrators will accept the advice of the experts to test how to register information for one trial group of users and then develop the operational protocol gradually. There is no specific schedule and no website has volunteered to become the test site. [Full Text]
The original Chinese text is here.
