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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
17 November 2023 Letter from ECA to ICANN Secretary Approving the Fundamental Bylaws Amendment regarding the IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process [Published on 21 November 2023] EC Administration Empowered Community's Power to Approve Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendment re IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process
16 November 2023 Letter from GAC to ECA Supporting the Fundamental Bylaws Amendment regarding the IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process [Published on 17 November 2023] GAC Empowered Community's Power to Approve Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendment re IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process
16 November 2023 Letter from GNSO Council to ECA Supporting the Fundamental Bylaws Amendment regarding the IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process [Published on 17 November 2023] GNSO Empowered Community's Power to Approve Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendment re IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process
16 November 2023 Letter from ALAC to ECA Supporting the Fundamental Bylaws Amendment regarding the IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process [Published on 17 November 2023] ALAC Empowered Community's Power to Approve Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendment re IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process
16 November 2023 Letter from ASO to ECA Supporting the Fundamental Bylaws Amendment regarding the IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process [Published on 17 November 2023] ASO Empowered Community's Power to Approve Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendment re IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process
16 November 2023 Letter from GNSO Council to ICANN Secretary Confirming the GNSO Representative to ECA [Published on 17 November 2023] GNSO Appointment of Representative to ECA  
15 November 2023 Letter from ccNSO Council to ECA Supporting the Fundamental Bylaws Amendment regarding the IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process [Published on 16 November 2023] ccNSO Empowered Community's Power to Approve Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendment re IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process
27 October 2023 Letter from GNSO Council to ICANN Secretary Confirming the GNSO Representative to ECA [Published on 31 October 2023] GNSO Interim appointment of Representative to ECA  
11 October 2023 Letter from ECA to ICANN Secretary Announcing the Expiry of Rejection Action [Published on 12 October 2023] EC Administration Termination of Rejection Action Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Standard Bylaws Amendment re (1) the composition and terms of the NomCom, (2) the implementation of the NomCom Standing Committee, and (3) how RSSAC is selected
2 October 2023 ECA Request for an Approval Action Community Forum [Published on 2 October 2023] EC Administration Empowered Community's Power to Approve Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendment re IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process
15 September 2023 Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Standard Bylaws Amendment re (1) the composition and terms of the NomCom, (2) the implementation of the NomCom Standing Committee, and (3) how RSSAC is selected [Published on 18 September 2023] ICANN Secretary Empowered Community's Power to Reject  
15 September 2023 Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendment re IANA Naming Function Review and the IANA Naming Function Separation Process [Published on 18 September 2023] ICANN Secretary Empowered Community's Power to Approve  
6 September 2023 Letter from EC Administration to ICANN Secretary Confirming GNSO Selection for ICANN Board Seat 14 [Published on 6 September 2023] EC Administration Designation of Board Seat 14 Notice from GNSO to ECA on Board Seat 14 Appointment
31 August 2023

Notice from GNSO to ECA on Board Seat 14 Appointment [Published on 1 September 2023]

 GNSO Designation of Board Seat 14  
7 August 2023

Letter from EC Administration to ICANN Secretary Confirming NomCom Selection for ICANN Board Seat 7

Letter from EC Administration to ICANN Secretary Confirming NomCom Selection for ICANN Board Seat 8
[Published on 7 August 2023]

 EC Administration Designation of Board Seats 7 and 8 Letter from NomCom to EC Administration on 2023 NomCom Selected Nominees to ICANN Board
31 July 2023 Letter from NomCom to EC Administration on 2023 NomCom Selected Nominees to ICANN Board [Published on 1 August 2023] NomCom Designation of Board Seats 7 and 8  
1 June 2023 Letter from ECA to ICANN Secretary Announcing the Expiry of Rejection Action [Published on 1 June 2023] EC Administration Termination of Rejection Action Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of FY24-28 Five Year Operating and Financial Plan
1 June 2023 Letter from ECA to ICANN Secretary Announcing the Expiry of Rejection Action [Published on 1 June 2023] EC Administration Termination of Rejection Action Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of FY24 Operating Plan and Budget
8 May 2023 Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of FY24-28 ICANN Operating Plan and Financial Plan [Published on 9 May 2023] ICANN Secretary Empowered Community's Power to Reject  
8 May 2023 Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of FY24 Operating Plan and Budget [Published on 9 May 2023] ICANN Secretary Empowered Community's Power to Reject  
3 April 2023 Letter from ECA to ICANN Secretary Announcing the Expiry of Rejection Action [Published on 3 April 2023] EC Administration Termination of Rejection Action Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of FY24 IANA Operating Plan and Budget
31 March 2023 Letter from GAC to ICANN Secretary Confirming the GAC Representative to ECA [Published on 5 April 2023] GAC Appointment of Representative to ECA
27 March 2023 Letter from ccNSO Council to ICANN Secretary Confirming the ccNSO Representative to ECA [Published on 27 March 2023] ccNSO Council Appointment of Representative to ECA
8 March 2023 Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of FY24 IANA Operating Plan and Budget [Published on 8 March 2023] ICANN Secretary Empowered Community's Power to Reject
11 January 2023 Letter from EC Administration to ICANN Secretary Confirming the ccNSO Selection for Board Seat 11 [Published on 12 January 2023] EC Administration Designation of Board Seat 11 Letter from ccNSO Council to ECA on Board Seat 11 Selection
5 January 2023 Letter from ccNSO Council to ECA on Board Seat 11 Selection [Published on 6 January 2023] ccNSO Designation of Board Seat 11

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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."