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2012

Date Host Organisation Location Program
21 Feb-2 Mar Combined APTLD, APIA, APNIC 33, APRICOT meeting New Delhi,India http://www.apricot2012.net/
11-16 Mar ICANN Costa Rica http://costarica43.icann.org/
27 Feb-2 Mar RSA Conference San Francisco,California http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2012/usa/mightier.htm
22-23 Mar SATIN Teddington,UK http://conferences.npl.co.uk/satin/
25-30 Mar IETF Paris,France http://www.ietf.org/meeting/83/index.html
15-17 Apr Organization:Security Confab La Jolla,California https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=31429&
16-20 Apr RIPE Ljubljana, Slovenia http://ripe64.ripe.net/
22-25 Apr ARIN Vancouver, British Columbia https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/ARIN-XXIX/index.html
22 Apr-1 May MENOG Dubai, UAE http://menog.net/
29-30 May CTU Ministerial Strategic ICT Seminar Miami, FL http://www.ctu.int/download/Final%20Agenda%20-%2010MinisterialSeminar.pdf
http://www.ctu.int/events
3-6 Jun NANOG Vancouver, British Columbia http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog55/
11-15 Jun CaribNOG Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago http://www.caribnog.org/events/caribnog-hosts-3rd-successful-regional-meeting/
24-29 Jun ICANN Prague, Czech Republic http://prague44.icann.org/
10-13 Jul CICTE-OAS-WEF Montevideo, Uruguay http://www.oas.org/cyber/upcoming_event_1.asp
21-29 Jul BlackHat-DEFCON Las Vegas, NV http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-12/
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-20/dc-20-index.html
29 Jul-3 Aug IETF Vancouver, British Columbia https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/84/agenda.html
21-31 Aug APNIC 34 Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://conference.apnic.net/34
29-31 Aug ISOC HK DNSSEC training Hong Kong TBD
11-14 Sep LACTLD Tech Training Philipsburgh, St Maarten http://www.lactld.org/content/workshops/
24-28 Sep RIPE Amsterdam, Netherlands https://ripe65.ripe.net/
24-26 Sep LACIGF Tech Bogota, Colombia http://www.lacigf.org/en/lacigf5/index.html
30 Sep-8 Oct MENOG Amman, Jordan TBD
1-5 Oct LACTLD Tech Training Asunción, Paraguay http://www.lactld.org/content/workshops/
14-19 Oct ICANN Toronto, Canada http://toronto45.icann.org/
21-24 Oct NANOG Dallas, TX http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog56/index.html
22-25 Oct eCrime 2012, APWG, eCRS VII , ICANN DNS SSR Symposium Las Croabas, Puerto Rico, US http://www.antiphishing.org/events/2012_ecrime.html
22-25 Oct MAAWG Baltimore, MD http://www.maawg.org/events/upcoming_meetings#moreInfo
25-26 Oct ISSA Anaheim, CA http://www.issa.org/?page=Conference
28 Oct-1 Nov LACNIC-LACNOG Montevideo, Uruguay http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/lacnicxviii/
4-9 Nov IETF Atlanta, GA TBD
6-9 Nov IGF Baku, Azerbaijan http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/
3-14 Dec WCIT-12 Dubai, UAE http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12/Pages/default.aspx

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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."