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IDN Variant TLD Program Presentations

This page is a database of links, documents and presentations providing updates on program developments and other topics of interest of the IDN Variant TLDs Program.

Upcoming Events

IDN Variant TLD Program – ICANN 50 London Meeting – Public Session

  • Date: Wednesday, 25 June 2014
  • Time: 08:30 – 10:00 BST
  • Room: Balmoral
  • Listen here: coming soon…
  • Related Documents:
    • coming soon…

 

IDN Root Zone LGR Generation Panels Workshop – ICANN 50 London Meeting – Public Session

  • Date: Wednesday, 25 June 2014
  • Time: 13:00 – 15:00 BST
  • Room: Balmoral
  • Listen here: coming soon…
  • Related Documents:
    • coming soon…

 

Recorded Events

IDN Workshop – Tokyo, Japan

 

IDN Variant TLD Program – ICANN 49 Singapore Meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Root Zone LGR Public Workshop – Integration & Generation Panels – ICANN 49 Singapore Meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Variant TLD Program – ICANN 48 Buenos Aires Meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Variant TLD Program – ICANN 47 Durban Meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Updates – Public Webinar

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update and Next Steps – ICANN 46 Beijing Meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Variant Project Update – ICANN 46 Beijing meeting – ccNSO Members Meeting Day 2

 

IDN VIP Program and IDN gTLD Variant Delegation – ICANN 46 Beijing meeting – GNSO Working Session

 

IDN Variant: Examining the User Experience Implication of the Active Variant TLDs – Public Webinar

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update - Macau - Chinese Domain Name Consortium Meeting

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update - Amsterdam - Registry-Registrar Gathering Meeting

 

P2.1 Root LGR Team Volunteers & Consultants - Conference call

 

P2.1 Root LGR Team Volunteers & Consultants - Conference Call

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update – ICANN 45 Toronto meeting – Public Session

 

P2.1 Root LGR Team Volunteers & Consultants - Workshop

 

P2.1 Root LGR Team Volunteers & Consultants - Workshop

 

P2.1 Root LGR Team Volunteers & Consultants - Conference Call

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update – ICANN 44 Prague meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update – ICANN 43 Costa Rica meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update – ICANN 42 Dakar meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update – ICANN 41 Singapore meeting – Public Session

 

IDN Variant TLD Program Update – ICANN 40 San Francisco meeting – Public Session

  • Date: 16 March 2011
  • Time: 14:30pm – 16:00pm PDT
  • Listen here: EN Full [MP3, 38.8 MB]
  • Related Documents

 

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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."