ICANN: Net Not Ready for 'Foreign' Languages
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board is urging
domain name registries not to rush into systems for assigning
non-English Web addresses, until common standards can be laid down.

The board took up the issue Monday, on the final day of ICANN's
quarterly meeting in Stockholm. Earlier, ICANN's Names Council voted to
recommend that registries hold off on their plans until a meeting of the
board's IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) Internal Working Group in
August.
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