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Board Governance Committee ALAC Review Working Group | Communiqué for 12 June 2008

The BGC At Large Advisory Committee Working Group (WG) held its third meeting on 12 June 2008 with the independent reviewers to discuss their progress and finalize events in Paris related to the ALAC Review.

  • The WG received a status report on the independent evaluator’s efforts. Westlake is preparing the final draft report. The final draft will be posted on 13 June 2008 for discussion at the Paris meeting. The community is encouraged to review the draft report and submit comments on ICANN’s Public Participation site. The public may submit their comments until 27 June 2008 when the comment period on the final draft report closes.
  • Chair advised copies of the final draft report will be available at the Paris meetings as well as translated copies of the Executive Summary.
  • The WG discussed final plans of the two workshops scheduled during ICANN’s Paris meeting; Monday, 23 June 15h00 – 16h30: ALAC Review Presentation & Workshop and Wednesday, 25 June 14h00 – 15h30: BGC ALAC Review WG Workshop. The WG discussed adding “Office Hour” sessions to the WG’s Paris meeting agenda to provide the community an opportunity to meet with members of the WG to comment on the final draft report.

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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."