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

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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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