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Public Comment - 2013 Archive

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January
Title Open Date Close Date
At-Large White Paper on Future Challenges Entitled Making ICANN Relevant, Responsive and Respected 20 November 2012 11 January 2013 [23:59]
.CAT Cross-Ownership Removal Request 22 December 2012 21 January 2013 [23:59]
IDN Variant TLD Program – Procedure to Develop and Maintain the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone in Respect of IDNA Labels – Second Public Comment Draft 7 December 2012 27 January 2013 [23:59]
February
Title Open Date Close Date
Consultation on the IANA Customer Service Complaint Resolution Process 18 December 2012 9 January 2013 Extended to 28 February 2013 [23:59]
Consultation on Internet Number Resources Performance Standards 20 November 2012 23 January 2013 Extended to 1 February 2013 [23:59]
At-Large White Paper on Future Challenges Entitled Making ICANN Relevant, Responsive and Respected 20 November 2012 7 January 2013 Extended to 28 February 2013 [23:59]
Amendments to Article XI, Section 2.3 of the ICANN Bylaws - DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) 3 January 2013 2 February 2013 [23:59]
Trademark Clearinghouse "Strawman Solution" 21 December 2012 Extended to 15 January 2013 11 January 2013 Extended to 5 February 2013 [23:59]
March
Title Open Date Close Date
Preliminary Issue Report on Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information 8 January 2013 1 March 2013 [23:59]
IDN Variant TLD Program -- Draft Final Report Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs 18 January 2013 1 March 2013 [23:59]
"Closed Generic" gTLD Applications 5 February 2013 7 March 2013 [23:59]
Policy vs. Implementation 31 January 2013 14 March 2013 [23:59]
Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement Including Additional Public Interest Commitments Specification 5 February 2013 20 March 2013 [23:59]
Interim Report IDN ccNSO Policy Development Process 5 February 2013 21 March 2013 [23:59]
Consultation on IANA Secure Notification Process 12 December 2012 31 January 2013 Extended to 21 March 2013 [23:59]
Consultation on gTLD Delegation and Redelegation Performance Standards 15 January 2013 21 March 2013 [23:59]
Consultation on ccTLD Delegation and Redelegation Performance Standards 15 January 2013 21 March 2013 [23:59]
Preliminary Issue Report on Uniformity of Reporting 20 February 2013 22 March 2013 [23:59]
Whois Registrant Identification Study, Draft Report 15 February 2013 31 March 2013 [23:59]
April
Title Open Date Close Date
Proposed Modification of GNSO PDP Manual to Address the Suspension of a PDP 7 March 2013 6 April 2013 [23:59]
Revised Proposal of the ACDR to Serve as a UDRP Dispute Resolution Service Provider 1 March 2013 13 April 2013 [23:59]
Proposed 2013 RAA Posted for Comment 7 March 2013 19 April 2013 [23:59]
Preliminary Issue Report on gTLD Registration Data Services 15 March 2013 19 April 2013 [23:59]
Public Interest Commitments Dispute Resolution Procedure (PICDRP) 15 March 2013 27 April 2013 [23:59]
May
Title Open Date Close Date
Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings – Initial Report 15 March 2013 17 May 2013 [23:59]
ICANN's FY 14 Security, Stability and Resiliency Framework 20 April 2013 20 May 2013 [23:59]
Proposed Modification of GNSO Operating Procedures Concerning the Deadline for the Submission of Reports and Motions 2 May 2013 23 May 2013 [23:59]
Consultation on Root Zone KSK Rollover 12 April 2013 31 May 2013 [23:59]
June
Title Open Date Close Date
Proposed Final 2013 RAA 22 April 2013 4 June 2013 [23:59]
New gTLD Board Committee Consideration of GAC Safeguard Advice 23 April 2013 4 June 2013 [23:59]
Questions to the Community on Accountability and Transparency within ICANN 29 April 2013 9 June 2013 [23:59]
FY14 Community Travel Support Guidelines 7 March 2013 11 June 2013 [23:59]
Proposed Final New gTLD Registry Agreement 29 April 2013 11 June 2013 [23:59]
FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget 10 May 2013 21 June 2013 [23:59]
Whois Information Status Policy 10 May 2013 24 June 2013 [23:59]
July
Title Open Date Close Date
Proposed Renewal of .BIZ gTLD Registry Agreement 3 June 2013 15 July 2013 [23:59]
Proposed Renewal of .INFO gTLD Registry Agreement 3 June 2013 15 July 2013 [23:59]
August
Title Open Date Close Date
Thick Whois Initial Report – GNSO Policy Development Process 21 June 2013 4 August 2013 [23:59]
Initial Report on Protection of IGO and INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs 14 June 2013 7 August 2013 [23:59]
Consultation on the Source of Policies & User Instructions for Internet Number Resource Requests 25 June 2013 7 August 2013 [23:59]
Proposed Renewal of .ORG gTLD Registry Agreement 21 June 2013 12 August 2013 [23:59]
Draft Final Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLD's 25 July 2013 16 August 2013 [23:59]
.MOBI Cross-Ownership Removal Request 26 July 2013 16 August 2013 [23:59]
.PRO Cross-Ownership Removal Request 26 July 2013 16 August 2013 [23:59]
Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings Policy Development Process (PDP) Recommendations for Board Consideration 2 August 2013 23 August 2013 [23:59]
Draft Final Report ccNSO Study Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs 1 August 2013 30 August 2013 [23:59]
September
Title Open Date Close Date
Explore the Draft Next Generation gTLD Directory Services 24 June 2013 12 August 2013 [23:59 UTC] Extended to 6 September 2013 [23:59 UTC]
Potential Postponement of the GNSO Review 15 July 2013 29 August 2013 [23:59] Extended to 6 September 2013 [23:59]
Proposal to Mitigate Name Collision Risks 5 August 2013 17 September 2013 [23:59]
GNSO Structures Charter Amendment Process 22 June 2013 18 September 2013 [23:59]
Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements 6 August 2013 18 September 2013 [23:59]
Consultation on ccTLD Delegation and Redelegation User Instructions and Source of Policy and Procedures 9 September 2013 30 September 2013 [23:59]
October
Title Open Date Close Date
Consultation on gTLD Delegation and Redelegation User Instructions and Source of Policy and Procedures 10 September 2013 1 October 2013 [23:59]
DNS Risk Management Framework Report 23 August 2013 5 October 2013 [23:59]
November
Title Open Date Close Date
Draft Final Report on Protection of IGO and INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs 20 September 2013 1 November 2013 [23:59]
Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse 24 September 2013 13 November 2013 [23:59]
Revised Public Interest Commitments Dispute Resolution Procedure (PICDRP) 2 October 2013 14 November 2013 [23:59]
December
Title Open Date Close Date
Second Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT 2) Draft Report & Recommendations 21 October 2013 13 December 2013 [23:59]
Proposed Bylaws Changes Regarding the Technical Liaison Group 30 October 2013 20 December 2013 [23:59]
Thick Whois Policy Development Process (PDP) Recommendations for Board Consideration 6 November 2013 28 December 2013 [23:59]
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."