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The tests are a step towards the formal use of non-English character sets such
as Chinese and Arabic in domain names.
Internationalised domain names will make the net easier to use for the majority
of net users who do not have English as their first language.
The work to introduce these character sets should be finished by 2008.
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The tests were carried out by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (Icann) that oversees the running of the net's addressing system.
Currently net domains, such as bbc.co.uk, can only be written with 37 characters
from the Roman alphabet which includes the letters A-Z, numbers 0-9 and the
hyphen.
This can cause problems in nations such as China where many new net users have
scant knowledge of that character set.
The tests carried out by Icann involved up-to-date versions of the live master
address books, or root servers, that direct users' computers to the actual
location of an internet domain.
In October 2006, Vint Cerf - widely known as one of the creators of the internet
- warned that the creation of internationalised domain names was "risky".
Early work on the technical feasibility of using non-English character sets
suggested that the address system would cope with the introduction of
international characters tests were called for to ensure this was the case.
"All answers were consistent with expected behaviour, and no unexpected delays
were discovered," wrote Lars-Johan Liman from Swedish company Autonomica AB, in
a report about the tests.
The actual tests of the international character sets were carried out in October
2006 but the results are only now being made available.
Further tests are now being scheduled to see how the system fares when actual
web users try it out with the live root servers.
Also needed are policy decisions by Icann on how the internationalised domain
names fit in and work with the existing rules governing the running of the
address books.
Icann is under pressure to get the international domain names working because
some nations, in particular China, are working on their own technology to
support their own character sets.
In March 2006 the Chinese government started rolling out a software add-on for
web browsing programs that helped them display Mandarin characters.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4455727.stm
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