July 13,2005

Statement made on behalf of gTLD Registries Constituency during the IDN Workshop held at the ICANN meeting in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (see http://icann.org/meetings/luxembourg/idn-workshop-13jul05.htm for workshop agenda)

The members of the gTLD Registries Constituency are committed to serving the needs of communities desiring to build an online identity using the characters and scripts that they choose to represent themselves.

As long as the concept of relating language to a domain exists, the gTLD registries will follow established authoritative language tables.

Where language tables do not exist, the gTLD registries will not permit the commingling of scripts in a domain label.

Where language tables are desired we will seek funding and an appropriate authoritative body to assist with the development of such tables.

Pat Kane

Senior Product Manager

VeriSign Naming and Directory Services