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Urges community dialogue on user confusion issues, designates Board urges community education and dialogue over to eliminate confusion about the numerous existing internationalized testbeds and pre-registration services.  Board identifies an internal working group to make recommendationsinvestigate and submit a report concerning the technical and policy issues surrounding the internationalization of domain names.

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The ICANN Board has begun to receive inquiries about its role and views with regard to the various efforts to internationalize the domain name character sets supported by the domain name system. In addition to the IETF's working group on internationalized domain names, several other initiatives to use non-ASCII characters for domain names have begun, including the VeriSign testbed for the .com/.net/.org registries, trials of non-ASCII character sets by ccTLD registries, and the marketing of internationalized domain name pre-registrations by private corporations and others.

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The Board understands that the Root Server System Advisory Committee has begun discussions of the possible implications of these efforts for the operation of the root servers.

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\[Resolution 01.38\] The Board expresses its concern over likely confusion about the nature and implications of the numerous existing internationalization testbeds and pre-registration services, and urges wider and more intensive education and dialogue among the global Internet community.unmigrated-wiki-markup

\[Resolution 01.39\] In order to promote better understanding of the technical and policy issues surrounding the internationalization of domain names, the Board designates an internal working group consisting of Masanobu Katoh (chair), Vint Cerf, Karl Auerbach, and Ivan Campos to identify the various internationalization efforts and the issues they raise, to engage in dialogue with technical experts and other participants in these efforts, and to make appropriate recommendations to the Board.

Wiki Markup\[Resolution 01.40\] The Board asks that the working group submit a report on its efforts at the next Board meeting in June.

Implementation Actions

  • Submit a report with appropriate recommendations to Board concerning the issues surrounding the internationalization of domain names. 
    • Responsible entity: ICANN internal working group - Masanobu Katoh (chair), Vint Cerf, Karl Auerbach, and Ivan Campos
    • Due date: 4 June 2001
    • Completion date: 4 June 2001

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Additional Information

 Explanatory text does not modify or override Resolutions.  See Board Resolutions Page for more information.

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