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Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

After years of complaints, ICANN fast tracks non-Latin web addresses

ZDNet ZDNet Nov 15, 07 3:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Soon, Chinese domain names can at long last be in Chinese. Addressing one of international critics’ longest-standing complaints, ICANN, the independent non-profit that regulates the Internet, is putting internationalized domain names on the fast track, ZDNet reports. Studies are already underway on how to integrate domains with non-Latin characters into the net’s framework, and what technical impact that would have. More »

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ICANN Appoints New Zealander to Replace Cerf

Will be first non- American to head the Internet regulatory body

PC World PC World Nov 3, 07 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - ICANN, the independent organization managing the Internet, filled its leadership void today by appointing New Zealand’s Peter Dengate Thrush as chairman. He will be the first non-American to head the group, which took over regulation from the US government, and has often come under international fire. Dengate Thrush downplayed his nationality, according to PC World , focusing instead on the organization’s maturity. More »

More about:  ICANN • Vint Cerf • DNS

Internet Running Out of
IP Addresses

Service providers need to get onboard with IPv6

BBC BBC Oct 31, 07 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - By 2010, new computers won’t be able to get online, warns Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf, unless ISPs adopt IPv6, a new system of assigning IP addresses. IP addresses are unique number strings devices need to get online, but most of the 4 billion numbers possible under the current system are taken. Routing devices are ready for IPv6, but providers are balking at the expensive switch. More »

More about:  Internet • ICANN • IP address • Vint Cerf • IPv6

Net Co-Inventor Leaving Domain Name Agency

Cerf navigated oversight board through WWW's early days

Associated Press Associated Press Oct 29, 07 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vint Cerf, who helped develop the technological underpinnings of the Internet, is stepping down as head of its oversight board, the AP reports. Many predicted the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers was doomed when Cerf took over in 1999, but he steered it through international criticism for 7 years. “My sentence is up,” Cerf joked, having hit his term limit. More »

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