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Fundamental Bylaws Amendment to Accountability Mechanisms

Approval Action Community Forum Period

Approval Action Decision Period

Forum Phase

Decision Phase

11 NOV

30 Days, can be extended if Forum is held at ICANN Meeting

11 DEC

21 Days

08 JAN

24 Hours

09 JAN

11 NOV

Approval Action Community Forum Period(Forum Phase)

30 Days, can be extended if Forum is held at ICANN Meeting

11 DEC

Approval Action Decision Period(Decision Phase)

21 Days

08 JAN

Approval Action Decision Period(Decision Phase)

24 Hours

09 JAN

Process Concluded

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ACTION STARTED ON 11 NOVEMBER 2024

Correspondence for Fundamental Bylaws Amendment to Accountability Mechanisms

Date	Correspondence	Sender Affiliation	Issue	Related Correspondence
11 November 2024	Secretary's Notice of Board Approval of Fundamental Bylaws Amendments to Accountability Mechanisms [Published on 11 November 2024]	ICANN Secretary	Empowered Community's Power to Approve

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."