World Wide Alliance of Top Level Domain-names

Communiqué on Multilingual Domain Names from Yokohama meeting

July 13, 2000

Yokohama, Japan

The ccTLD Constituency of ICANN, meeting in Yokohama:

1. NOTES the importance of the development of Multilingual Domain Names to the true internationalization of the Internet.

2. ACKNOWLEDGES the importance of achieving global technical standards

3. AFFIRMS the work of the IETF on establishing consensual technical standards for Multilingual Domain Names

and

RECOMMENDS that the DNSO: RE-AFFIRM that the IETF is the proper body to develop critical Internet technical standards