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Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

2000-12-03 15:00:04

----- Original Message -----
From: "R . P . Aditya" <lists(_at_)lists(_dot_)grot(_dot_)org>
To: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 16:20
Subject: Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?


<snip>
You can't address a letter to someone in Berkeley, USA in nagari or
amharic
characters and expect it to reach. However you can address a letter to
someone
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in ASCII characters with a poor-phonetic
approximation and expect it to reach (choice of locales based on
experience).

<snip>

Adi

But don't packets get routed using IP addresses  (i.e. numbers) ?

Kimon

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