Non-Latin Web Addresses Coming Soon

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Fri Oct 30 13:45:50 EDT 2009


This could divide the web more than help it IMHO.

Also the 'World Wide Web' hasn't been around for 4 decades!


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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


2009/10/30 Michael Kann <mikekann at yahoo.com>

> >From the NY Times online this morning:
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> SEOUL — By the middle of next year, Internet surfers will be allowed to use
> Web addresses written completely in Chinese, Arabic, Korean and other
> non-Latin alphabets, the organization overseeing Internet domain names
> announced on Friday in a decision that could make the Web more accessible.
>
> In a move billed as one of the biggest changes in the Web’s four-decade
> history, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers — or ICANN — voted Friday to allow such scripts in Internet
> addresses during its annual meeting, held in Seoul.
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> This change only affects domain names — anything that comes after the dot,
> such as .com, .cn or .jp. Until now, they could only be in 37 characters —
> 26 Latin letters, 10 digits or a dash. But starting next year, domain names
> can be the characters of any language.
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> The decision, reached after years of testing and debate, clears the way for
> ICANN to begin accepting applications for non-Latin domain names on Nov. 16.
> People will start seeing them in use around mid-2010, particularly in
> Arabic, Chinese and other scripts in which demand for the new
> “internationalized” domain name system has been among the highest, ICANN
> officials say.
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> Initially, the new naming system will only affect Web addresses with
> “country codes,” the designators at the end of an address name, such as .kr
> (for Korea) or .ru (for Russia). But eventually, it will be expanded to all
> types of Internet address names, ICANN said.
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> Full article here:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/technology/31net.html?_r=1&hp
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> -- only a few more fluff paragraphs
> -- registration required
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> Michael Kann
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