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Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

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The Domination Of The English Language In The Global Village: Efforts To Further Develop The Internet By Populating It With Non-Latin-Based Languages, Molly Torsen Jan 2005

The Domination Of The English Language In The Global Village: Efforts To Further Develop The Internet By Populating It With Non-Latin-Based Languages, Molly Torsen

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At the top of the homepage of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a choice of nine different languages in which to read information about the organization; four of them are languages written in non-Latin script (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian). Clicking upon any of the language options brings the reader to a new website in that language and, presuming the reader has a computer and screen that can handle non-Latin script, the webpage reads legibly and clearly. The Uniform Resource Locator (URL), however, still reads in Latin script despite the webpage’s content being in a …


Sovereign Domains: A Declaration Of Independence Of Cctlds From Foreign Control, Kim G. Von Arx, Gregory R. Hagan Jan 2002

Sovereign Domains: A Declaration Of Independence Of Cctlds From Foreign Control, Kim G. Von Arx, Gregory R. Hagan

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In the year 2000, the Government Advisory Committee (“GAC”) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) passed a set of principles that essentially claimed national sovereignty over country code top-level domains (“ccTLD”s) such as .us, .ca, .uk and .au. Shortly thereafter, ICANN redelegated several ccTLDs in accordance with new GAC principles. Despite the outcry accompanying the passage of these principles and ICANN’s self-professed adherence thereto, the entire exercise could easily be criticized as merely symbolic because of the overriding power of ICANN in the operation of the Domain Name System (“DNS”). Indeed, Stuart Lynn, ICANN’s current president, …


Electronic Commerce And Non-Resident Aliens: The Internal Revenue Service Versus International Cyberspace Transactions, Jonathane M. Ricci Jan 1999

Electronic Commerce And Non-Resident Aliens: The Internal Revenue Service Versus International Cyberspace Transactions, Jonathane M. Ricci

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The year is 1999. Jack Jones has just retired from practicing civil law in the United States and has returned to his home country of Trinidad, just off the coast of South America, where he now resides. Jack has an idea to keep him busy during retirement. He made many contacts in the U.S. legal community and his work is well-respected. So, Jack decided to keep writing for attorneys in the U.S.