Mirsulzhan Namazaliev on the proposal to have URLs in alphabets other than Latin: “Attack of the alphabets: will Cyber-Cyrillic threaten global online unity?“
Personal website and weblog of the libertarian Cato academic.
Personal website and weblog of the libertarian Cato academic.
Mirsulzhan Namazaliev on the proposal to have URLs in alphabets other than Latin: “Attack of the alphabets: will Cyber-Cyrillic threaten global online unity?“
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Thank you, Tom!
Here is the translation in russian: http://www.neweurasia.net/ru/m.....р-кир/
Rothbard argued that Mises’ plebescite argument leads to the conclusion that every individual has the right to secede from any political union. May I add the corollary that every individual should have the right to secede from established linguistic groups and develop her/his own characters for domain names, etc.? The ultimate in individual self-expression!
(I’m joking, but OTOH, there are something like 50 alphabets, plus numerous written languages that do not use alphabets — e.g. Chinese dialects, Japanese, Korean, etc. And then there are non-written languages with no characters at all. No doubt each one deserves equal treatment by ICANN. For non-written languages some sort of speech recognition software should work so we can have spoken domain names. So just where does all this end?)