Sunday, November 26, 2006

"Human beings can deal with ambiguity, but computers can't."

At Icon smh.com.au we read Domain name games
Domain names now can use combinations from a possible 37 characters; if non-English letters are allowed, this would rise to 50,000 or more, Paul Twomey, who lives in the United States but also has a home in Sydney, is the chief executive of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit organisation whose tasks include managing the domain name system (DNS) says. This could create problems where, for example, a character in Urdu looks identical to one in Arabic, confusing the system and making it difficult to direct users to the correct website. "We live in multicultural Sydney ... and we all want a multicultural internet," Twomey says. "And yet, there's one big difference between human beings and computers. Human beings can deal with ambiguity, but computers can't."

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