“If Korean is used during the international communication, foreigners won’t be able to understand and won’t be able to read it well enough, so there could be some problems in communication,” said South Korean Internet user Chang Yong-woong. But others see the IDNs opening the Internet to a much broader population. “If they can make this technology work, and people can use their own language to enter in addresses, I think that that would really expand the practical applications of the Internet,” said Chinese Internet cafe owner Zhang Zhiming. “People from different walks of life and different age groups could get more engaged with it.” One question that has not yet been resolved, however, is how people in countries that use the Latin script will be able to access Web sites with Korean, Hindi or Arabic domain names. ICANN doesn’t have an answer to that, but is confident a new technology will fill that gap soon. CNN’s Errol Barnett contributed to this report.

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