Internet Address Change 互联网网址更新
[audio]http://file.24en.com/bbc/tae/assets_2143837/tae_237_internet_address_change_au_bb.mp3[/audio][color=#3f3f3f][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=12px][p=21, 2, left]The internet is often described as the [b]World Wide Web[/b] but how truly global is it when millions of users have no choice but to use a[b]Latin-based alphabet[/b] to name websites and email addresses?[/p][p=21, 2, left]All of that is set to change following the decision taken by the [b]internet regulator[/b] organisation to allow [b]domain names[/b] to be in non-Latin [b]scripts[/b].[/p][p=21, 2, left]The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) announced the historic change at its [b]board meeting [/b]in Seoul, Korea this week.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The new [b]naming system[/b] means that websites will no longer have to include [b]suffixes [/b]such as .com, .co.uk or .cn written in English.[/p][float=right][img=226,170]http://www.24en.com/d/file/bbc/bbc2/2009-11-05/91ea8e4c340f2b2cb0e9f296a0631595.jpg[/img][p=30, 2, left]Will this be our website address one day?[/p][/float]
[p=21, 2, left]Instead complete web addresses will be possible in languages such as Chinese, Arabic or Korean for the first time.[/p][p=21, 2, left]These new [b]Internationalised Domain Names[/b] (IDNs) will come online next year, and may prove very popular since more than half of the 1.6 billion people who use the internet speak languages that do not use the alphabet.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The president of Icann, Rod Beckstrom, said that the new IDNs would represent the "biggest change" to the [b]coding[/b] behind the internet since it was invented forty years ago.[/p][p=21, 2, left]He also said the move was necessary and the [b]morally correct[/b] thing to do.[/p][p=21, 2, left]"Not only is it an issue of [b]convenience[/b], but it's an issue of what's right, the right to express their names in their own cultural language," said Mr Beckstrom.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The change to the naming system is not without its [b]critics[/b] however.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Some have said that the new approach could lead to the [b]ghettoisation[/b] of the internet with some [b]online communities[/b] operating only within their languages, [b]isolated[/b] from the rest of the web.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Others have claimed that it will make [b]protection[/b] of [b]intellectual property rights [/b]even harder than it already is.[/p][/size][/font][/color]
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