web to be truly worldwide at last

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Published at: news.bbc.co.uk

WWW to be truly global ?

November 1, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

As per a recent meeting in Seoul,S.Korea and ICANN's (Internet Corp. for Assigned Numbers and Names ) decision to allow users to choose full web and e-mail addresses using non-Latin character sets means the end of a TRULY world wide web and not the beginning!!It will most certainly lead to further defragmentation of the WWW and all that implies in terms of globally accepted standards and policies re content,security,best practices industrywide as well as interoperability of products/devices.