[UgaBYTES] Internet set to change

[NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul]

Hello Mutaasa,

This is really a good news for the expension of the Internet. Endeed, DNS
was writen at it's birth by engeneers with english and latin scripts
backgrounds.
It's clear that Internet is going to become really multi lingual now.
Attending Internet Governance debates some times ago, I felt that so many
entities claiming for a multi lingual internet.
I support the fact every language is an expression of a some particular
knowledge provided by a particular cultural values. Some of this hided
knowledge may be of great importance for solving some common global
problem for the whole humanity if it is shared online.
So, a multilingual Internet that has became a global knowledge network is
really a great revolution !

Sincerely
> Hello Comrades is this good news or bad news or you do not know?
>
> please read this:
>
> The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its
four-decade history with the expected approval this week of
international
> domain names — or addresses — that can be written in languages other
than English, an official said Monday.
> Â 
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN —
the
> non-profit group that oversees domain names — is holding a meeting
this
> week in Seoul. Domain names are the monikers behind every Web site,
e-mail
> address and Twitter post, such as ".com" and other suffixes.
> One of the key issues to be taken up by ICANN's board at this week's
gathering is whether to allow for the first time entire Internet
addresses
> to be in scripts that are not based on Latin letters. That could
potentially open up the Web to more people around the world as addresses
could be in characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek,
Hindi and Cyrillic — in which Russian is written.
> Â 
> "This is the biggest change technically to the Internet since it was
invented 40 years ago," Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the ICANN
board,
> told reporters, calling it a "fantastically complicated technical
feature." He said he expects the board to grant approval on Friday, the
conference's final day.
> The Internet's roots are traced to experiments at a U.S. university in
1969 but it wasn't until the early 1990s that its use began expanding
beyond academia and research institutions to the public.
> Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's new president and CEO, said that if the change is
approved, ICANN would begin accepting applications for non-English
domain
> names and that the first entries into the system would likely come
sometime in mid 2010.
> Â 
> Enabling the change, Thrush said, is the creation of a translation
system
> that allows multiple scripts to be converted to the right address.
"We're confident that it works because we've been testing it now for a
couple of years," he said. "And so we're really ready to start rolling
it
> out."
> Â 
> Of the 1.6 billion Internet users worldwide, Beckstrom — a former
chief
> of U.S. cybersecurity — said that more than half use languages that
have
> scripts based on alphabets other than Latin.
> "So this change is very much necessary for not only half the world's
Internet users today, but more than half of probably the future users as
the use of the Internet continues to spread," he said.
> Beckstrom, in earlier remarks to conference participants, recalled that
many people had said just three to five years ago that using non-Latin
scripts for domain names would be impossible to achieve.
> Â 
> "But you the community and the policy groups and staff and board have
worked through them, which is absolutely incredible," he said.
> ICANN is headquartered in the United States in Marina del Rey,
California.
>
> Â Mutaasa B.G. Humphrey
> P.o Box 9816 Kampala
> Uganda East Africa.
>
>
>
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