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Correspondence Affiliation Date Issue
Letter from Dr. Tayfun Acarer to Kuo-Wei Wu [PDF, 706 KB] Republic of Turkey
Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA)
Information Technologies Department
27 December 2010 Recent Developments Regarding IPv6 in Turkey
Letter from Kurt Pritz to Jeff Neuman [PDF, 447 KB] ICANN 22 December 2010 Board Resolution on Registry-Registrar Cross-Ownership
Letter from J. Scott Evans to Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 85 KB] The Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) 20 December 2010 ICANN Board Resolution Nos. 2010.03.12.17 and 2010.03.12.18 on Vertical Integration Dated March 12, 2010
Letter from Chris Disspain to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 73 KB] Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) 9 December 2010 ICANN Strategic Planning Process
Letter from Stacy Burnette to Garth Bruen [PDF, 167 KB] ICANN 8 December 2010 Correction Regarding ICANN Contractual Compliance
Letter from Lawrence E. Strickling to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 142 KB] The Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information | United States Department of Commerce 2 December 2010 New gTLDs and the Affirmation of Commitments
Letter from Alan C. Drewsen to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 124 KB] International Trademark Association 2 December 2010 Economic Analysis of New gTLDS
Letter from Diane Duke to Rod Beckstrom and ICANN Board [PDF, 1.87 MB] Free Speech Coalition 1 December 2010 ICM's Application Registry Application for .XXX
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Chris Disspain, Chuck Gomes, and Cheryl Langdon-Orr [PDF, 1.15 MB] ICANN 30 November 2010 Joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis Working Group
Email from Jun Murai to ICANN Board of Directors [PDF, 56 KB] RSSAC 25 November 2010 RSSAC Comments on Root Scaling
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Heather Dryden [PDF, 284 KB] ICANN 23 November 2010 Response to GAC Comments on New gTLDs and DAGv4
E-mail from Axel Pawlik to Leo Vegoda and Elise Gerich [PDF, 381 KB] NRO 23 November 2010 Distribution of Legacy IPv4 Address Space Between the RIRs
Letter from Heather Dryden to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 164 KB] GAC 22 November 2010 Interim GAC Comments Related to New gTLDS
Letter from Steve Heflin to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 29 KB] Afilias 22 November 2010 Notice of Fee Increase
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Sha Zukang [PDF, 232 KB] ICANN 15 November 2010 Response to Call for Contribution to Public Consultation on the Process of Enhanced Cooperation
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Ministre de l'Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement [PDF, 44 KB] ICANN 14 November 2010 Congratulations on New Duties as Ministre de l'Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Eric Besson, Ministre auprès de la ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, chargé de l'industrie, de l'énergie et de l'économie numérique [PDF, 44 KB] ICANN 14 November 2010 Congratulations on New Duties as Ministre auprès de la ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, chargé de l'industrie, de l'énergie et de l'économie numérique
Email from Bruce Tonkin to Jun Murai [PDF, 1.21 MB] Chair, ICANN Board Risk Committee 5 November 2010 Root Server Capacity for new gTLDs
Letter from Brian Cute to the ICANN Board [PDF, 579 KB] GNSO 4 November 2010 Vertical Integration
Letter from Erik Wilbers to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 40 KB] WIPO 1 November 2010 Protection Against the Misleading Use of the Names and Acronyms of International Intergovernmental Organizations in the Domain Name System
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Heather Steinmeyer and Alan Drewson [PDF, 304 KB] ICANN 27 October 2010 New gTLDs Overarching Issues
Letter from Diane Duke to ICANN Board, Peter Dengate Thrush and John Jeffrey [PDF, 252 KB] Free Speech Coalition 27 October 2010 .XXX sTLD and GAC statements
Letter from Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy to Mr Peter Dengate-Thrush [PDF, 32 KB] Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 22 October 2010 .XXX Proposal
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Sha Zukang, United Nations [PDF, 152 KB] ICANN 18 October 2010 Response to Call for Contribution to Public Consultation on the Process of Enhanced Cooperation
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Mr. Amre Moussa [PDF, 3.34 MB] ICANN 15 October 2010 Recognition of Arab Region
Letter from Alan C. Drewsen to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 268 KB] INTA 12 October 2010 New gTLDs Overarching Issues
Letter from Kurt Pritz to Edmon Chung [PDF, 268 KB] ICANN 11 October 2010 Approval to Deploy IDNs
Letter from Sha Zukang to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 420 KB] United Nations 8 October 2010 Call for Contribution to Public Consultation on the Process of Enhanced Cooperation
Email from Chuck Gomes to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 40 KB] GNSO Council 7 October 2010 Vertical Integration Recommendations for the New gTLD Program
Letter from Anthony Gooch to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 468 KB] OECD 6 October 2010 Protection of the Names and Acronyms of IGOS in New gTLDs
Letter from Josh Bourne to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 236 KB] CADNA 30 September 2010 GAC Comments on new GTLDs and DAGv4
Letter from Tim Switzer to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 140 KB] NeuStar, Inc. 29 September 2010 Notice of Fee Increase
Letter from Heather Dryden to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 44 KB] GAC 23 September 2010 GAC Comments on new GTLDs and DAGv4
Letter from Heather Steinmeyer to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 64 KB] International Trademark Association (INTA) 8 September 2010 New gTLDs Overarching Issues
Letter from Diane Duke to John Jeffrey [PDF, 2.08 MB] Free Speech Coalition 8 September 2010 .XXX sTLD
Letter from Alexa Raad to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 296 KB] Public Interest Registry 7 September 2010 Notice of Fee Increase
Letter from Amre Moussa, League of Arab States The Secretary General to Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO [PDF, 192 KB] League of Arab States
The Secretary General
28 August 2010 Recognition of Arab region
Letter via Email from Edmon Chung to Kurt Pritz [PDF, 89 KB] DotAsia Organisation 27 August 2010 Authorization to Deploy IDNs
Letter from Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 220 KB] International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 16 August 2010 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, Guadalajara, 2010
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Janis Karklins [PDF, 374 KB] ICANN 13 August 2010 Response to Project Agreement Proposal on the Development of the IDN ccTLD Reference Table for Cyrillic Script
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Chris Disspain, Chuck Gomes [PDF, 1.73 MB] ICANN 11 August 2010 Proposed DNS-CERT Working Group
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Heather Dryden [PDF, 902 KB] ICANN 5 August 2010 GAC Comments on New gTLDs and Draft Applicant Guidebook Version 3
Letter from Governmental Advisory Committee to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 235 KB] GAC 4 August 2010 Procedures for Addressing Culturally Objectionable and/or Sensitive Strings
Letter from Janis Karklins to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 514 KB] UNESCO 3 August 2010 Project Agreement Proposal on the Development of the IDN ccTLD Reference Table for Cyrillic Script
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Fred B. Tarter [PDF, 80 KB] ICANN 28 July 2010 Response to Question About Procedure to Secure the .XXX Top Level Domain
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Hamadoun Touré [PDF, 500 KB] ICANN 19 July 2010 Request for Observer Status at ITU Plenipotentiary Meeting
Letter from Fred B. Tarter to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 297 KB] The LakeSide Group, LLC 7 July 2010 Procedure to Secure the .XXX Top Level Domain
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid [PDF, 1.21 MB] ICANN 6 July 2010 Issues related to the creation of .ARAB gTLD
Letter from Peter Nettlefold to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 131 KB] lntemet Governance, IPND, and Numbering Team 2 July 2010 Response to Questions about National Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Lynn St. Amour [PDF, 1.37 MB] ICANN 18 June 2010 Security and stability of the Internet
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Chris Disspain [PDF, 162 KB] ICANN 14 June 2010 Meaningful representations of country and territory names in the gTLD space
Letter from Axel Pawlik to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 234 KB] The Number Resource Organization (NRO) 9 June 2010 NRO's Support of ICANN's IANA-related functions
Letter from Edmon Chung to Kurt Pritz [PDF, 100 KB] DotAsia Organisation Ltd. 20 May 2010 Fee Amendment Request
Letter from Patrick Baumann, Chairman, and Mike Miller, Vice Chairman of .SPORT Policy Advisory Council to Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO [PDF, 21 KB] .SPORT Policy Advisory Council 13 May 2010 ICANN must respect sport solidarity
Letter from James C. Schul to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 30 KB] 7 May 2010 Opposition to the creation of .xxx
Letter from David Appasamy and Eric H. Loeb to Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 91 KB] ICC's ITIS Task Force 5 May 2010 ICC Recommendations: ICANN First Review Team, Procedure Improvements, and Brussels Meeting
Letter from Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 235 KB] International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Development Bureau 4 May 2010 Issues related to the creation of .ARAB gTLD
Letter from Chris Disspain to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 62 KB] ccNSO Council 30 April 2010 DNS-CERT
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Janis Karklins [PDF, 111 KB] ICANN 21 April 2010 DNS Security
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Chris Disspain, Chuck Gomes, Cheryl Langdon-Orr [PDF, 56 KB] ICANN 21 April 2010 DNS-CERT
Message from Aras Noori to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 40 KB] Info DotKurd 21 April 2010 Launch of dotKurd Application
Letter from Lynn St Amour to ICANN Board of Directors [PDF, 141 KB] Internet Society 14 April 2010 Security and stability of the Internet
Letter from Frederic Riehl to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 123 KB] United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development 13 April 2010 Enhanced cooperation on public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
Letter from Janis Karklins to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 825 KB] GAC 12 April 2010 LEA RAA Amendment/Due Diligence Proposals
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Chris Disspain [PDF, 54 KB] ICANN 7 April 2010 Comments Made to the ICANN Board of Directors and the Governmental Advisory Committee on the Vulnerability of the DNS to Attack
Letter from Francis Gurry to Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 2.46 MB] WIPO 6 April 2010 Relationship Between ICANN and WIPO
Letter from Carissa Etienne to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 52 KB] World Health Organization 6 April 2010 Protection of International Nonproprietary Names
Letter from Scott Cooper to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 78 KB] 28 March 2010 Community Zone
Letter from John Jeffrey to Diane Duke [PDF, 40 KB] ICANN 26 March 2010 ICM/.XXX
Letter from Erik Wilbers to Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 213 KB] WIPO 26 March 2010 Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAP WG) Initial Report
Letter from Daniel Enrique Medina to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 580 KB] Republic of Colombia 25 March 2010 ICANN Meeting Location
Letter from Chris Disspain, Chuck Gomes, and Cheryl Langdon-Orr to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 72 KB] gNSO, ccNSO, and ALAC 25 March 2010 Comments on the Establishment of a "DNS-CERT"
Letter from Diane Duke to Rod Beckstrom and John Jeffrey [PDF, 1.08 MB] Free Speech Coalition 23 March 2010 ICM's Application for .XXX sTLD
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Urs Lacotte [PDF, 73 KB] ICANN 23 March 2010 ICANN-IOC meeting
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Haiyan Qian [PDF, 339 KB] ICANN 22 March 2010 Enhanced cooperation on public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
Letter from Stuart Lawley to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 178 KB] ICM Registry 21 March 2010 ICM's Response to Board Resolutions of 12 March 2010
Letter from Urs Lacotte and Howard M. Stupp to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 1.30 MB] International Olympic Committee 16 March 2010 ICANN-IOC meeting
Letter from Viviane Reding to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 38 KB] European Commission 15 March 2010 Commission as Vice-President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Stuart Lawley [PDF, 470 KB] ICANN 12 March 2010 Independent Review Panel's Declaration
Letter from Chris Disspain to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 41 KB] ccNSO 11 March 2010 Comments Made to the Joint Meeting of the ICANN Board and Governmental Advisory Committee
Letter from Janis Karklins, Chairman to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 119 KB] Governmental Advisory Committee 10 March 2010 GAC Comments on New gTLDs and DAG v3
Letter from Stuart Lawley to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 146 KB] ICM Registry 10 March 2010 Final Resolution of Dispute Between ICM and ICANN
Letter from Martin Atkin to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 107 KB] The Dot Eco Stakeholder Council 9 March 2010 Convening Letter - The Dot Eco Stakeholder Council
Letter from Philip Corwin to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 49 KB] Internet Commerce Association 8 March 2010 Czech Arbitration Court (CAC)
Letter from Stuart Lawley to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 319 KB] ICM Registry 2 March 2010 Declaration of the Independent Review Panel in ICM Registry, LLC vs. ICANN
Letter from Stuart Lawley to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 123 KB] ICM Registry 25 February 2010 Declaration of the Independent Review Panel in ICM Registry, LLC vs. ICANN
Letter from Fred Krueger and Antony Van Couvering to Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 62 KB] minds + machines 24 February 2010 EIO Communication Period
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Viviane Reding [PDF, 55 KB] ICANN 16 February 2010 Commission as Vice-President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
Message from Cheryl Langdon-Orr to Doug Brent [PDF, 37 KB] ALAC 15 February 2010 ALAC's affirmation of support for ICANN Meeting #37 to be held in Nairobi March 7-12 2010
Message from Chris Disspain to Doug Brent [PDF, 32 KB] au Domain Administration Ltd 15 February 2010 ccNSO - Nairobi meeting
Letter from Gerald J Kovach, Senior Vice President, External Affairs to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 68 KB] Neustar Inc 14 February 2010 Nairobi meeting
Letter from Tim Ruiz to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 29 KB] GoDaddy.com 12 February 2010 Proposal Regarding Nairobi ICANN Meeting
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Abdul Waheed Kahn [PDF, 36 KB] ICANN 9 February 2010 The UNESCO-ICANN cooperation agreement
Letter from J. Scott Evans, President to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 212 KB] Intellectual Property Constituency 4 February 2010 IPC attendance at Nairobi meeting
Letter from Janis Karklins to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 73 KB] Governmental Advisory Committee 26 January 2010 GAC advice to the ICANN Board regarding the EoI process
Letter from Peter Kjaer to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 90 KB] LEGO 25 January 2010 New gTLDs - the STI Report
Letter from Kristopher Nelson to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 54 KB] 21 January 2010 Request of a fractional organization to oversee the Internet
Letter from Abdul Waheed Khan to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 92 KB] UNESCO 21 January 2010 The UNESCO-ICANN cooperation agreement
Letter from Craig Schwartz to Khashayar Mahdavi [PDF, 55 KB] ICANN 14 January 2010 Approval to Launch IDNs
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."