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Initial ATRT Recommendations Metrics Dashboard

Updated October 2012

(More metrics will be added as implementation matures)

Board Operations 2012
Board committees' workplans completed Done
 
Board Self-Appraisal Done
 
Board Procedures Manual Posted
 
Board Training and Skills Benchmarking Analysis Posted

 

Board Composition 2012
NomCom public consultation Done
 
Board Skill sets provided to NomCom Done
NomCom reports to community March, June, October
 
Board compensation election posted Done

 

Board Decisions 2012
Publish decision rationale (full Board & New gTLD Program Committee meetings) Meetings: 20
Sets of resolutions posted: 20
Sets of rationales posted: 20
Board materials published Meetings with approved minutes: 19
Materials posted: 14*
Board Resolutions incorporating clarification on type of decision (Rec. 6) Sets of Resolutions: 1**
 
Reconsideration requests Requests: 2
Process followed: 2

 

GAC Operations*** 2012
GAC members receiving travel support March meeting: 16
June meeting: 18
Interpretation support provided March meeting: 19 sessions
June meeting: 20 sessions

 

Public Engagement 2012****
Public comment/reply forums 39
Public comments summarized 35
Public comment forecast Posted

 

Multilingual Access 2012
Multilingual preference noted/# job postings 29/29
Number of languages spoken by staff 41
Number of countries represented/# new hires 17/42

 

* All other meetings with approved minutes had no materials or are confidential

** Two more, once resolutions from 13 October 2012 Board meeting are posted.

*** June 2012 GAC advice register launched

**** Through September 2012

Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."