[Candor7]

"...He added that the changes would prove powerful when combined with upcoming plans to allow web users to use addresses with names in Chinese, Arabic or other alphabets other than Latin...>>>>>>>>>>>>

That should make security of the web easy....NOT

What a freakin disaster.We will have to go back to a numeric system.

And the ARabs will want to control and censor everything , just as Red China does.

[ELS]

We will have to go back to a numeric system.

It is fundamentally a numeric system. There are databases (Domain Name Servers) that translate alphabetic addresses into numeric addresses. They will just expand the types of characters that can be translated into numbers.