Big change on the way for the internet.Summary: A new era is is on the way for the internet which is being described as the "biggest technical change" since its creation 40 years ago. A new era is is on the way for the internet which is being described as the "biggest technical change" since its creation 40 years ago. Web addresses using non-Latin characters have formally been approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system (ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number ). It means Hebrew, Hindi and Korean will be available by the middle of next year. Nations and territories will be able to apply for internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. endings reflecting their name and using their national language from November 16, when ICANN's Internationalised Domain Name (IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) A .com or .net domain name that is represented in non-English characters and symbols, with .com and .net appended at the end in English letters. ) fast track process begins. More than half the world's internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f do not use English or a Latin-based language as their first language and this move will see around 100,000 new characters available for use in IDNs. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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