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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
10 May 2022 Secretary's Notice on ICANN Standard Bylaws Amendments
[Published on 11 May 2022]		 ICANN Secretary Empowered Community's Power to Reject  
5 May 2022 Letter from EC Administration to ICANN Secretary Confirming the ASO Selection for the Board Seat 10
[Published on 5 May 2022]		 EC Administration Designation of Board Seat 10 Letter from ASO to ICANN Secretary on Board Seat 10 Designation
26 April 2022 Letter from ASO to ICANN Secretary on Board Seat 10 Designation
[Published on 27 April 2022]		 ASO Designation of Board Seat 10
1 April 2022 Letter from ECA to ICANN Secretary Announcing the Expiry of Rejection Action
[Published on 1 April 2022]		 EC Administration Termination of Rejection Action Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of FY23 IANA Budget
21 March 2022 Letter from EC Administration to ICANN Secretary Confirming the GNSO Selection for Board Seat 13
[Published on 21 March 2022]		 EC Administration Designation of Board Seat 13 Notice from GNSO to ECA on Board Seat 13 Appointment
17 March 2022 Letter from ccNSO to ICANN Secretary Confirming the ccNSO Representative to ECA
[Published on 18 March 2022]		 ccNSO Appointment of Representative to ECA  
9 March 2022

Notice from GNSO to ECA on Board Seat 13 Appointment
[Published on 9 March 2022]

 GNSO Designation of Board Seat 13  
9 March 2022

Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of FY23 IANA Budget
[Published on 9 March 2022]

 ICANN Secretary Empowered Community's Power to Reject  
31 January 2022

Letter from ASO to ICANN Secretary Confirming the ASO Representative to ECA
[Published on 1 February 2022]

 ASO Appointment of Representative to ECA  

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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."