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November 1, 2006
English Is Good Enough
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on November 1, 2006 at 2:52:01 PM
The UN is doing their best to screw over a working system. English has 26 letters and 10 numbers. How many chars do these other crazy languages have?
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A November 1983 specification proposed that domain names would have "only letters, digits and hyphen"--which meant that alphabets in Cyrillic, Arabic, Kanji, or Chinese sinographs could not be used in domains. Not even diacritical marks employed in German, French and Spanish were permitted. On Wednesday, delegates to a United Nations summit here complained that the ASCII-only choice was representative of an Internet culture that was far too English-centric and failed to respect other languages.
October 30, 2006
UN Wants Control Over Internet
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 30, 2006 at 3:12:22 PM
Sorry UN, you suck. The US will remain in 'control' over the DNS system. As you may not be aware, the root servers are located in other countries besides the USA.
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The official purpose of the Internet Governance Forum, which was created at a similar U.N. event last year in Tunisia and is scheduled to convene annually for five years, is to discuss everything from domain names to spam and security. But many critics of the United States hope that the forum will contain the seeds to an organization to supplant ICANN, perhaps organized under the auspices of the United Nations. Even though the U.S. has the most sophisticated Internet infrastructure, last year's meeting was held in Tunisia and this year's in Greece. Not one meeting is scheduled to be held in North America, though Brazil, India, and Egypt have announced their plans to host future ones. In addition, no U.S. government representative spoke during opening ceremonies.
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