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WHEREAS, the board expresses its gratitude to the volunteers in the technical community, including the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the Root-Server System Advisory Committee, and the Security and Stability Advisory Committee for their work related to the deployment of Internationalized Domain Names.
WHEREAS, the board recognizes the important work being done on the revision of the protocol called Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications, or IDNA, that provides the framework for what characters can be used when registering domain names, as well as successful results in the laboratory tests conducted by Autonomica.
WHEREAS, ICANN is preparing the near-term release of a publicly accessible facility for the evaluation of at least 11 IDN top-level domains that will be provisionally entered into the root zone of the Domain Name System and that will include second-level domains in the same languages as the top-level domains, all for evaluation purpose only.
WHEREAS, the board recognizes that this is a significant step towards the stable deployment of Internationalized Domain Names.
Whereas, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee has undertaken a technical study to analyze stability and security issues associated with the deployment of Internationalized Domain Names top-level domains.
Whereas the TLD registries working group has recently released IDN guidelines revisions and plans to continue this effort as further details of the IDNA protocol, Internationalized Domain Names in Applications protocol, revision is being completed.
Whereas the ICANN board remains committed to the development and deployment of IDNs that enable people to use domain names with characters other than A through Z and 0 through 9, and at the same time benefit from the promise of a single interoperable Internet.
Resolved, the ICANN board acknowledges the work performed by the members of the community working on this important topic and urges this work to continue to move forward in a manner that emphasizes the security and stability of the Internet.
WHEREAS, it is -- oh, now we are on the resolved, second resolution.
The ICANN board respectfully requests that technical volunteers continue to work closely together to complete their work revising the IDNA protocol and identifying technical requirements for IDN registrations to guide the policy-making community.
And finally, resolved, the ICANN board requests staff to consider the resulting technical recommendations as essential for the introduction of IDN at the top level in a manner that ensures the continued security and stability of the Internet.
>>VINT CERF: Thank you very much, Susan. Is there a second for these resolutions? I see Paul Twomey seconding them.
Susan, I want to congratulate you on two things. First of all, spelling out all the acronyms is a really good idea, and second that you spoke slowly and clearly for our scribes.
Thank you.
>>SUSAN CRAWFORD: You are welcome.
>>VINT CERF: Is there any other discussion or commentary on these resolutions?
>>SUSAN CRAWFORD: This is pretty exciting. We have you had have some discussion about this.
>>VINT CERF: I think it's all right.
I think that it's very clear from the "whereas" sections that we all care very deeply about making progress here.
So without further ado, I will call on the board to, by a show of hands, approve these resolutions.
All those in favor, please raise your hands.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
It is unanimous, Mr. Secretary.