Museums are involved in one way or another with almost every speech community on the earth. The International Council of Museums has 115 national committees and in addition to need for each to maintain an Internet presence in its official national language(s), the committees also embrace the concerns of the speakers of the indigenous and minority languages in their respective countries. There is a corresponding need for a broad IDN repertoire in the dotMuseum TLD. The most appropriate means for its implementation may, however, not be by the registration of all such names directly on the second level. Regardless of how prospective name holders might respond to that suggestion, there is clear need for pedagogical action explaining the potential (and limitations) of IDN to any agency that itself represents a linguistically diverse constituency. Two specific actions will be briefly described in illustration of this. The first is the distributed deployment of IDN through the ICOM national committees. The second is a joint action being conducting with NIC-SE, the operator of the Swedish ccTLD, in the context of the national 'Year of Cultural Diversity 2006'. Sweden has six minority languages with legal status, all of which require more extensive IDN support than is sufficient for the Swedish language.

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