Internet Set for Change with Non-English Addresses

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is getting ready to allow non-English addresses for the first time. The changes will start sometime next year, supposedly ICANN has been testing this for "a couple years" already.

"This is the biggest change technically to the Internet since it was invented 40 years ago," Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the ICANN board, told reporters, calling it a "fantastically complicated technical feature." He said he expects the board to grant approval on Friday, the conference's final day.

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