[ga] FYI: ITU press release on IDN resolution

[Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>]

>ITU stakes claim on Internet names
>
>The Working Group of the Plenary approved a resolution on the management 
>of internationalized multilingual domain names. This resolution aims at 
>promoting the role of Member States in the internationalization of domain 
>names and addresses of their respective languages. This will be increasingly 
>important in the coming years as a majority of Internet users is expected 
>to prefer to conduct online activities in their own language. It is also 
>important because the current Domain Names System (DNS) mapping does not 
>reflect the growing language needs of all. The resolution stresses that 
>the registration and allocation of Internet domain names and addresses 
>should reflect the geographical and functional nature of the Internet with 
>an equitable balance of interests of all stakeholders. It also emphasizes 
>that the non-discriminatory access to Internet domain names and addresses, 
>and more generally to the Internet, should be available to all citizens 
>and that the management of Internet Domain Names and addresses is of 
>concern to both governments and the private sector. It also reiterates 
>the need to fully maintain country code numbering plans and addresses as 
>in ITU-T recommendation E.164 which defines the international public 
>telecommunication numbering plan. Under this resolution, ITU will be 
>providing assistance to its Member States to promote the use of their 
>languages for domain names and addresses and will cooperate with the 
>World Intellectual Property Organization whose role includes protection
>against misuse of intellectual property rights in the use of countries’ 
>languages for domain names and addresses.
(http://www.itu.int/newsroom/pp02/Highlights/1010.html)

Best regards,
/// Alexander

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