On Jul 16, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote:

US makes about-turn on Internet directories

We all need to keep an eye on this:


http://www.itnetcentral.com/pcworld/article.asp?id=14731&info=PC +World&leveli=0


If ICAAN adds or changes our addresses as the proposal for
changing to hexadeciaml to replace the dot decimal now
used.

I think you've garbled something in translation. There is nothing in that article about changing any notation; this is an issue of who controls the root DNS servers.

Currently the US does, this does make much of the rest of the world uneasy.

Besides, the dot notation is merely a convenience; the computers don't use it anyway.


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