Adding IDNs so that other nations and regions can use their own language will do nothing to interrupt the flow of w/e to your desktop. You can still search for your favorite puppy pictures in English, and you can still search for your favorite non-Roman character sites, too.

IDNs will ADD to the internet, not take away. It will add accessibility for billions of people who are currently excluded, who, yes, WILL build their own networks, and then - guess what? Add them to the internet. That's exactly what the internet is, an amalgamation of individual networks.

Nobody is going to force *you* to go search through the networks you have no interest in, so calm yourself.

Things change over time. Deal with it.

I for one think that this change is long overdue, and that it will have a fantastic and positive effect on the internet and the world as a whole in terms of opening vast new areas of open communication.

Honestly, ever since Internet got to non-western countries, it has needed expansion of characters. The whole point in DNS is to give easily remembered & descriptive names to servers.

1. Buy a Chinese keybaord if you are going to chinese sites that frequently.

2. Add the stupid Language Bar to Windows, and set up the Chinese Input Language via Regional and Language Options.

Don't freak out people, you've been able to input chinese characters all along.

"Twomey also addressed the issue of ensuring ICANN's mechanisms would work "from Norway to New Zealand," stressing the importance of a "single global technology"."

A Single Global Mission would be AIGreat Game Beta for All Creative Support Technology ...... and Present a Virtually Transparent Open CyberIntelAIgents Channel with Remote PseudoBinary/ParadDigital Control GUI .... and NINJA PlugIn with EMPhaSIS for a QuITe Sterling Semantic CNXXXXion.

Spooky West to East Quantum Intellectual Property Transfer for IT Use and ITs Use against Abuse with Self Administered Personified Destruction .... Surge Purge BetaTesting...... ESPecial Forces in Training and Cover Cloud Operations....... which sounds very much like a Military Defence Shift and Intelligence Coup Delivery Call Facility/Question of Westernised Intelligence Serving Officers.

Rewriting the Past is no Way to Spend Time in the Future which Really One Only Requires Simple Great Imagination Shared, to Present IT Realised, Virtually, in Advancing Cloning Circuit IntelAIGent Loops....... SunNI HotShot Source Spot Markets.

Oh great, now we'll have a deluge of malicious URLs with untypable special characters and other ridiculous crap in them (right-to-left URLS?). The end result is going to be a huge security mess. I know I'm going to categorically block all URLs with these oddball characters in them.

I don't care about "international fairness" either. These regions can create their own networks that support these languages in URLs. Hell, they're the only ones who will be using them (legitimately) anyway.

If it's good enough for aviation...

That might be really good for those locals, but will inevitably harm international search, as only sites who keeps roman characters URLs will be accesibles to everyone. Sometimes I like to browse chinese sites with google translator, but if the URL is in chinese, how can I type it?

...would work "from Norway to New Zealand,"

Oh, the irony, such a quote in an article about multilingual web and more Asians getting online!

Well this stinks. Can't English and its European pals rule like kings for a few more years? I LIKE English.