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There are moves afoot to globalise the way the web works, allowing
the creation of website addresses in languages like Chinese, Arabic and
Russian, rather than just the Roman alphabet.
Plans by Icann, the organisation which oversees internet addresses, had
been opposed by some who argued that it could create a splintering of
information and allow some repressive governments to exercise greater
levels of control over its citizens. However, the proposals passed and
the organisation plans to start liberalising web addresses in 2009 . . . .
<more:>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/08/internet-usa
Search-engine design just became a little more complicated at base, with
WWW domain-names now going to be available in all alphabets, and *** only
knows what'll happen if the Chinese try to implement an ideographic WWW
domain-name system (wide characters indeed) . . . .
The same article also talks about the decentralization of the Net away
from the US, which is expectable and laudable and helps stabilize the Net
(there is no Internet, really, it's just all the networks on Earth
connected together).
And also claims that Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet, which puts
Al Gore in his place (and might be expected from a Brit paper) (TBL
invented the WWW/DNS system, allowing the use of domain-names, like
yalibnan.com, as opposed to "dotted-quad" IP addresses, like 127.0.0.1,
but which means any time you access a site by domain-name you're actually
doing two accesses, one to a name-server-- .com, .net, wotever-- to
translate the name into the IP address, and then to the server you want to
access).
--
tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
You want a job and a lizard to ride?
< _The Einstein Intersection_
the creation of website addresses in languages like Chinese, Arabic and
Russian, rather than just the Roman alphabet.
Plans by Icann, the organisation which oversees internet addresses, had
been opposed by some who argued that it could create a splintering of
information and allow some repressive governments to exercise greater
levels of control over its citizens. However, the proposals passed and
the organisation plans to start liberalising web addresses in 2009 . . . .
<more:>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/08/internet-usa
Search-engine design just became a little more complicated at base, with
WWW domain-names now going to be available in all alphabets, and *** only
knows what'll happen if the Chinese try to implement an ideographic WWW
domain-name system (wide characters indeed) . . . .
The same article also talks about the decentralization of the Net away
from the US, which is expectable and laudable and helps stabilize the Net
(there is no Internet, really, it's just all the networks on Earth
connected together).
And also claims that Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet, which puts
Al Gore in his place (and might be expected from a Brit paper) (TBL
invented the WWW/DNS system, allowing the use of domain-names, like
yalibnan.com, as opposed to "dotted-quad" IP addresses, like 127.0.0.1,
but which means any time you access a site by domain-name you're actually
doing two accesses, one to a name-server-- .com, .net, wotever-- to
translate the name into the IP address, and then to the server you want to
access).
--
tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
You want a job and a lizard to ride?
< _The Einstein Intersection_
