U.N. delegates: English isn't good enough

[alphamale]

ATHENS, Greece--When the pioneering engineers who invented the Internet began crafting the modern domain name system, they came up with a rule that was reasonable at the time: Domains must use only English-language characters.

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On Wednesday, delegates to a United Nations summit here complained that the ASCII-only choice was representative of an Internet culture that is far too English-centric and that fails to respect other languages.

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"Regarding the technical implementation for the World Wide Web, we are done, except for maybe some corner cases," said Patrik Fältström, a senior engineer with Cisco Systems who is the co-author of an internationalized domain name specification inside the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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full story: http://news.com.com/U.N.+delegates+E...tag=nefd.pulse

[thefabfive]

On Wednesday, delegates to a United Nations summit here complained that the ASCII-only choice was representative of an Internet culture that is far too English-centric and that fails to respect other languages.

These delegates need to get with the times. This hasn't been true for years.

With all of this complaining about an English-centric internet, you'd think people would've embraced IDN quicker instead of taking a 'wait and see' approach.