US run ICANN complains
THE US backed outfit that runs the Internet, ICANN, said that if all these foreigners keep mistyping their nasty non-latin letters into browsers the internet could break.
In a statement issued at a UN organised conference into the future of the interweb, in Athenoi, the cradle of democracy, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey said a more multi-lingual internet was too hard at the moment and the rest of the world would damn well have to speak American English proper.
ICANN is currently testing ways of implementing a more multi-lingual interweb, but it is all proving a tad tricky.
Twomey said that if ICANN got it all wrong, we could very easily and permanently break the Internet.
Although technology for Internet addresses which can also contain non-Latin portions is slated, the technology for full addresses is still being developed. A spokesman for Cisco said that with 6,000 languages in the world it would mean that the name of countries, like Greece, would need to be registered in all of them.
The main fear is that if different languages are used, the so-called usefulness of the web could be diminished. So says the
Sydney Morning Herald,
here.
The INQuirer