Re: [CGUYS] changing the rules of Web addresses

2009-10-28 Thread Stephen Brownfield
This was the kind of issue that I was really wondering about when I made the initial post on this. tjpa wrote: On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Stephen Brownfield wrote: According to the Daily Mail, the ICANN board will pass a resolution this Friday that will allow entire Web addresses to be wri

Re: [CGUYS] changing the rules of Web addresses

2009-10-28 Thread tjpa
On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Stephen Brownfield wrote: According to the Daily Mail, the ICANN board will pass a resolution this Friday that will allow entire Web addresses to be written in non-Latin alphabets. There were several false starts on this that created huge security holes. The bi

Re: [CGUYS] changing the rules of Web addresses

2009-10-27 Thread tjpa
On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Stephen Brownfield wrote: I read that ICANN is planning on changing the rules of Web addresses, by allowing non-Latin alphabet characters. Here's the link: Do we let foreigners use the web? How did that happen? *

Re: [CGUYS] changing the rules of Web addresses

2009-10-27 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 9:42 AM -0400 10/27/09, Stephen Brownfield wrote: I read that ICANN is planning on changing the rules of Web addresses, by allowing non-Latin alphabet characters. Here's the link: http://www.switched.com/2009/10/26/web-to-go-truly-world-wide-with-non-latin-urls/ "According to the Daily M

Re: [CGUYS] changing the rules of Web addresses

2009-10-27 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
It is both good and bad. Good in that you will now have more people making more web pages using foreign and native characters to create such web pages. (Did I say good?) Bad in that you have done away with standardization of any type. There is a reason that all airplane pilots must know Eng

[CGUYS] changing the rules of Web addresses

2009-10-27 Thread Stephen Brownfield
I read that ICANN is planning on changing the rules of Web addresses, by allowing non-Latin alphabet characters. Here's the link: http://www.switched.com/2009/10/26/web-to-go-truly-world-wide-with-non-latin-urls/ "According to the Daily Mail, the ICANN board will pass a resolution this Fri