http://www.circleid.com/ Latest Multilinguism related postings on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-12-04T12:22:00-08:00 130 45 http://www.circleid.com/images/logo_rss.gif http://www.circleid.com/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/igf_next_billion_internet_multilingual_support/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/igf_next_billion_internet_multilingual_support/ More...]]> 2008-12-03T13:10:00-08:00 internetinternet_governancemultilinguism http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_governance_forum_india/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_governance_forum_india/ More...]]> 2008-12-03T12:47:00-08:00 internetinternet_governancemultilinguism http://www.circleid.com/posts/governments_concerned_new_geographical_tld/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/governments_concerned_new_geographical_tld/ report delivered by the Latvian diplomat Janis Karklins, chairman of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) at the meeting in Cairo. More...]]> 2008-11-07T12:31:00-08:00 internetdomain_namesinternet_governancemultilinguismtop_level_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081024_russian_minister_cyrillic_domain_names/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081024_russian_minister_cyrillic_domain_names/ Russian Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications spoke at the opening of the InfoCom 2008 exhibition in Moscow. Among other things, which made news (for example, that the Russian government will be implementing a free and open source based operating system on all computers in the Russian schools), he also made the following remarks - translated by me in English. More...]]> 2008-10-24T15:29:00-08:00 internetdnsdomain_namesmultilinguismtop_level_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/link_to_eternity/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/link_to_eternity/ More...]]> 2008-09-27T09:19:00-08:00 internetmultilinguismweb http://www.circleid.com/posts/89228_japan_domain_name_market/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/89228_japan_domain_name_market/ More...]]> 2008-09-22T08:42:01-08:00 internetdomain_namesdomain_registriesmultilinguismtop_level_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/89192_mapping_google_world/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/89192_mapping_google_world/ Cuba — "I doubt many Americans are aware of that."... More...]]> 2008-09-19T15:38:00-08:00 internetdomain_namesmultilinguismtop_level_domainsweb http://www.circleid.com/posts/89810_internationalized_email_addresses/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/89810_internationalized_email_addresses/ EAI working group of the IETF has finished (part of) its work on the interationalization of email addresses. This, together with Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) will make it possible to send email messages to non-7 bit ASCII addresses... There are 3 RFCs, covering changes to the SMTP protocol, e-mail message format and delivery Status Notifications. More...]]> 2008-09-08T10:15:00-08:00 internetmultilinguism http://www.circleid.com/posts/88267_nationalism_internationalized_domain_names/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/88267_nationalism_internationalized_domain_names/ The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a California based independent, nonprofit research group with 40 years of experience in identifying emerging trends that will transform global society... Turns out they are quite concerned about the fragmentation and control of the Internet as well. But will it be an inevitability? More...]]> 2008-08-26T07:07:00-08:00 internetcensorshipdomain_namesinternet_governancemultilinguismpolicy_regulationtop_level_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/idn_org_did_we_miss_icann_reply/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/idn_org_did_we_miss_icann_reply/ ICANN asking it to consider the interests of the end-users as core to its policies in Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) implementation... As of today's date, August 21, 2008, we have yet to receive even an acknowledgement of receipt of our letter... More...]]> 2008-08-21T12:56:00-08:00 internetdomain_namesinternet_governancemultilinguismtop_level_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/88710_org_ncuc_internationalized_domain_names/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/88710_org_ncuc_internationalized_domain_names/ More...]]> 2008-08-07T10:00:00-08:00 internetdomain_namesdomain_registriesmultilinguismpolicy_regulationtop_level_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/87111_gartner_new_top_level_domains/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/87111_gartner_new_top_level_domains/ Gartner, the well known IT consulting company, has published a report on the new top level domains that will appear some time next year. The report totally misses the mark. In a pure US centric vision, it focuses on ".com" as the must-have TLD, totally overlooking the fact that a ".com" is mostly worthless e.g. in Germany, where ".de" is the TLD one must have to succeed locally... More...]]> 2008-07-11T12:22:00-08:00 internetdnsdomain_namesmultilinguismtop_level_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/internationalization_of_malware_challenge/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/internationalization_of_malware_challenge/ malware. He writes: "In the past, an anti-malware company could focus on English-targeted samples. But an increasing percentage of malware samples are international in origin and targeting international machines. I saw numerous cases of Chinese malware targeting Chinese software or hosts. This was quite a challenge to determine if it was malware or not for several reasons." Brown further explains: "One of the most fascinating facets of the increasing internationalization of malware is the cultural assumptions around such software. What is considered malware in the US may be commonly accepted in China or Japan, and this is largely due to the society that it exists in." 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