The wrap-up meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board passed a resolution to China's IDN ccTLD applications, the Chinese delegation to the meeting has told Xinhua.

According to this resolution, ICANN president and CEO has been assigned to draft an Implementation Plan for this urgent issue which has been bothering ICANN for quite some time since the announcement of the approval of the first four IDN ccTLD applications.

Thanks to the progress reached Friday at the Nairobi's conference, China's IDN ccTLD application will be approved as early as April and Chinese Internet users will be able to surf the Internet with native language.

CNNIC, ".China" requestor, welcomes the Board resolution, while encouraging ICANN to take swift action to make ".China" Top Level Domain a reality as soon as possible.

ICANN is the body who is in charge of the coordination and management of the Internet DNS and IP addresses. The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board last year and the first requests were received in 2009.
                                                                                                           Source: Xinhua