[Kictanet] ICANN Outlines Plan for Testing Non-English Domain Names

[alice at apc.org]

ICANN Outlines Plan for Testing Non-English Domain Names
>     The Internet's key oversight agency has outlined a plan for testing
> domain names entirely in non-English characters, bringing closer to
> reality a change highly sought by Asian and Arabic Internet users. The
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced a tentative
> timetable that calls for tests to begin in the second half of the year.
> The tests would help ensure that introducing non-English suffixes wouldn't
> wreck a global addressing system that millions of Internet users rely upon
> every day.
>     Read more:
> http://www.gigalaw.com/newsarchives/2006_03_16_index2.html#114254389387608868