p2pnet.net News:- ICANN warns that creating more web addresses using non-Latin letters could, “permanently break the Internet”.

Short for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, which oversees global Net functions, issued the alert at a UN-organized conference on the future of the Internet, says the Associated Press, continuing:

“Many believe ICANN should move faster in creating non-English domain name suffixes. Unwilling to wait, China already has set up its own ‘.com’ in Chinese within its borders, while an Arabic consortium is testing suffixes in Arabic.”

Final tests and discussions should, “reach a resolution by the end of 2007,” AP has ICAAN ceo Paul Twomey saying, adding:

“But this is no simple task. If we get this wrong we could very easily and permanently break the Internet.”

Also See:
Associated Press – ICANN warns mistake on non-English Web addresses could ‘permanently break Internet’, November 1, 2006

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