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The Working Group of the Plenary approved a resolution on the management of
internationalized multilingual domain names. This resolution aims at helping
promote 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.