ICANN has agreed to allow the use of non-Latin scripts to be used as web addresses, bringing the biggest overhaul of the internet since its inception, according to experts. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which approved the change at a meeting in Seoul, claims the move could lead to a dramatic rise in the number of broadband connection users. It's estimated that over half of the 1.6 billion people who use the internet speak languages with non-Latin scripts"This is only the first step, but it is an incredibly big one and an historic move toward the internationalisation of the internet," says ICANN's chief executive Rod Beckstrom. "We have just made the Internet much more accessible to millions of people and IT companies in regions such as Asia, the Middle East and Russia."
