Internet addresses set for change
BBC / BBC
30-Oct-2009 (one comment)

The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world.

The board of Icann voted at its annual meeting in Seoul to allow domain names in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts.

More than half of the 1.6 billion people who use the internet speak languages with non-Latin scripts.

It is being described as the biggest change to the way the internet works since it was created 40 years ago.

The first Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) could be in use next year.

Plans for IDNs were first approved at a meeting in June 2008, but testing of the system has been going on for two years.

Technical upheaval

The move paves the way for the internet's Domain Name System (DNS) to be changed so it can recognise and translate non-Latin characters.

>>>
recommended by Shah Ghollam

Balatarin
Share/Save/Bookmark

 
Farhad Kashani

Shah Gholam, Wait a

by Farhad Kashani on Fri Oct 30, 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Shah Gholam,

Wait a minute..so you’re saying that “Zionists” who control everything in the world, and “imperialist capitalist America” who “hates everything about Iran”, is letting this go through? So their “plot against working class” and “Iranian nation!!” did not work? Wow, what a defeat, right Shah Gholam?

Please explain how your beloved IRI defeated the “Zionist plot”. Cause there is always a “Zionist plot”, right?


  •