<div>ICANN 40 ended this morning; here are the main resolutions.</div>
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<h2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em" class="title">ICANN 40: Board Sets New gTLDs Timeline; Approves .XXX Domain</h2>
<div style="MARGIN: 0.5em 1em 0.75em 0.25em; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-18mar11-en.htm"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #d8d8d8 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #d8d8d8 1px solid; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 240px; BORDER-TOP: #d8d8d8 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #d8d8d8 1px solid" alt="Board Sets New gTLDs Timeline; Approves .XXX Domain" src="http://www.icann.org/images/silicon-valley-400x240-18mar11.jpg"></a> </div>
<p>ICANN's Silicon Valley meeting, held at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, concluded 18 March with the public meeting of its Board of Directors.</p>
<p>The ICANN community handled a wide array of Internet policy issues, including:</p>
<p><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2em">• ICANN's next public meeting will be held in Singapore, June 2011</span>.<br><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2em">• The Board intends to complete the process for final approval of the New gTLD implementation program at an extraordinary meeting of the ICANN Board to be held on Monday, 20 June 2011, at the ICANN public meeting in Singapore.</span><br>
<span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2em">• The Board endorsed all 27 of the recommendations made by the Accountability and Transparency Review Team, and requested ICANN Staff to prepare implementation plans</span>.<br><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2em">• The period for accepting public comments about the process for creating new GNSO constituencies was extended</span>.<br>
<span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2em">• The Board supported entering into a Registry Agreement with ICM, approving .XXX as a new top-level domain.</span></p>
<p>For details (and decisions on many other topics), refer to the boa<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-18mar11-en.htm">rd resolutions</a>.at <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-18mar11-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-18mar11-en.htm</a></p>
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