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Correspondence Affiliation Date Issue
Letter from Annalisa Roger to Steve Crocker [PDF, 200 KB] DotGreen Community Inc. 29 December 2011 Measureable Harm to Applicants Should ICANN Second Guess Its Approved Timeline
Letter from Chairman Patrick Leahy, Charles E. Grassley, Chairman Lamar Smith and John Conyers, Jr., to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 164 KB] United States House and Senate Judiciary Committees 27 December 2011 Letter Regarding the New gTLD Program
Letter from Hon. Amy Klobuchar and Hon. Kelly Ayotte, U.S. Senate to Rod Beckstrom and Steve Crocker [PDF, 77 KB] United States Senate 22 December 2011 Consumer Protection
Letter from Josh Bourne to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 660 KB] The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) 21 December 2011 New gTLD Program Recommendations
Letter from Hon. Fred Upton et al., U.S. House of Representatives to Rod Beckstrom and Steve Crocker [PDF, 150 KB] House Committee on Energy and Commerce 21 December 2011 Consumer Protection
Letter from The Association of National Advertisers to ICANN Board [PDF, 314 KB] The Association of National Advertisers 21 December 2011 Answers Needed as Objections Mount
Letter from Doug Johnson and Paul Smocer to Rod Beckstrom and Steve Crocker [PDF, 135 KB] American Bankers Association, BITS/The Financial Services Roundtable 20 December 2011 Security Standards Working Group Proposal
Letter from Federal Trade Commission to Rod Beckstrom and Steve Crocker [PDF, 311 KB] Federal Trade Commission 16 December 2011 Consumer Protection Concerns Regarding New gTLDs
Letter from IGO Counsel to Rod Beckstrom, Steve Crocker and Kurt Pritz [PDF, 157 KB] Legal Counsels of Public International Intergovernmental Organizations 13 December 2011 Open Letter from Intergovernmental Organizations on the Expansion of Generic Top Level Domains
Letter from Barbara Ann Clay to Moustapha Guirassy [PDF, 311 KB] ICANN 30 November 2011 Senegal Meeting
Letter from Heather Dryden, GAC Chair to Steve Crocker [PDF, 350 KB] ICANN-GAC 28 October 2011 GAC Consensus Advice for New gTLD Applicant Guidebook
Letter from Steve Crocker to NPOC Leadership [PDF, 197 KB] ICANN 26 October 2011 Response to Not-for-Profit Organization Operational Concerns Constituency ("NPOC") Request for ICANN Board Assistance for Membership Approval and Recent Elections
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Neelie Kroes [PDF, 1.68 MB] ICANN 25 October 2011 Cross Ownership Between Registries and Registrars
Letter from the Executive Committee of the NCSG and NCUC to the ICANN Board [PDF, 134 KB] NCSG and NCUC 21 October 2011 Response to Not-for-Profit Organization Operational Concerns Constituency ("NPOC") Request for ICANN Board Assistance for Membership Approval and Recent Elections
African Union Commnuiqué of 21 October 2011 [PDF, 149 KB] Commission de l'Union Africaine,
Republique du Senegal
21 October 2011 African Union – ICANN Areas for Engagement
Email from John Jeffrey to Carlos Dionsio Aguirre [PDF, 93 KB] ICANN 19 October 2011 Advice to GNSO and NomCom regarding assignment of NomCom Appointees to GNSO Council
Letter from NPOC Leadership to Steve Crocker, Rod Beckstrom, and the ICANN Board of Directors [PDF, 108 KB] Not-for-Profit Organization Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC) 17 October 2011 Not-for-Profit Organization Operational Concerns Constituency ("NPOC") Request for ICANN Board Assistance for Membership Approval and Recent Elections

Message from Kurt Pritz to David Maher and Mason Cole [PDF, 100 KB]

ICANN 26 August 2011 Process for amending RRA
Letter from Robert Liodice to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 78 KB] Association of National Advertisers (ANA) 11 August 2011 Response to Letter on Generic Top Level Domain Program
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Robert Liodice [PDF, 348 KB] ICANN 9 August 2011 Generic Top Level Domain Program
Letter from Robert Liodice to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 2.30 MB] Association of National Advertisers (ANA) 4 August 2011 Generic Top Level Domain Program
Letter from Jeffrey J. Neuman to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 31 KB] Neustar, Inc. 29 July 2011 Notice of Fee Increase for .BIZ
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Fiona M. Alexander [PDF, 158 KB] ICANN 22 July 2011 ICANN Comments on IANA functions contract in response to US Department of Commerce Further Notice of Inquiry
Letter from Phillip V. Marano, Esq. to Dr. Steve D. Crocker [PDF, 158 KB] Silverberg Goldman & Bikoff, LLP 15 July 2011 Correspondence from the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Letter from Christophe de Kepper to Dr. Steve D. Crocker [PDF, 35 KB] International Olympic Committee 12 July 2011 Protecting Olympic and Olympiad
Letter from John Bell to Stephen Crocker, Rod Beckstrom and John Jeffrey [PDF, 528 KB] .JOBS Charter Compliance Coalition 8 July 2011

Change of listed .JOBS Purpose in Root Zone Database

Letter from John Bell to Stephen Crocker, Rod Beckstrom and John Jeffrey [PDF, 28 KB] .JOBS Charter Compliance Coalition 5 July 2011 Employ Media's Request for Arbitration
Letter from Y. S. Mahangade to Steve Crocker and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 214 KB] Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai 1 July 2011 New gTLDs – dot mumbai
Letter from James L. Bikoff to Kurt Pritz and Amy Stathos [PDF, 704 KB] Silverberg Goldman & Bikoff, LLP 1 July 2011 Protecting the Olympic Words in the New gTLDs
Letter from Debra Hughes to Peter Dengate Thrush, Rod Beckstrom, and the ICANN Board [PDF, 49 KB] American Red Cross 22 June 2011 Request for Board Approval of the NPOC Charter on Friday
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Heather Dryden, GAC Chair [PDF, 362 KB] ICANN 22 June 2011 Four gTLD Whois Studies Approved
Letter from Scott Blackmun to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 45 KB] US Olympic Committee (USOC) 17 June 2011 Reserved Names List
Letter from Gerard de Graaf and Linsey McCallum to Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 72 KB] European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General 17 June 2011 Removal of vertical separation between registries and registrars for new and existing gTLDs
Letter from David Meltzer, Peggy Dyer and Mary S. Elcano to Kurt Pritz and Amy Stathos [PDF, 1.08 MB] American Red Cross 16 June 2011 Reserved Names List
Letter from Lawrence Strickling to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 304 KB] United States Department of Commerce 16 June 2011 Cross Ownership Issues
Letter from Terry Miller to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 381 KB] The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd. 14 June 2011 Support for the IOC Reserved Names Proposal
Letter from Michael Vesper to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 46 KB] Deutscher Olympischer SportBund 10 June 2011 Support for the IOC Reserved Names Proposal
Letter from Jean-Pierre Mougin to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 47 KB] Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français 10 June 2011 Support for the IOC Reserved Names Proposal
Letter from Craig Phillips to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 362 KB] Australian Olympic Committee 10 June 2011 Support for the IOC Reserved Names Proposal
Letter from Juan Carlos Cárdenas Gueudinot to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 1.13 MB] Comite Olimpico de Chile 9 June 2011 Support for the IOC Reserved Names Proposal
Letter from Leonardo Gryner to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 368 KB] Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games 9 June 2011 Reservation of the words OLYMPIC and OLYMPIAD
Letter from Raja Randhir Singh to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 245 KB] Indian Olympic Association 9 June 2011 Support for the IOC Reserved Names Proposal
Letter from Peter Prom to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 612 KB] Gambia National Olympic Committee 9 June 2011 Support for the IOC Reserved Names Proposal
Letter from Maxwell de Silva to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 75 KB] National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka 9 June 2011 Support for the IOC Reserved Names Proposal
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Mr. Moustapha Guirassy [PDF, 112 KB] ICANN 7 June 2011 ICANN's 42nd Public Meeting in Dakar, 23 – 28 October 2011
Letter from Kuo-Wei Wu to Dr. Tayfun Acarer [PDF, 106 KB] ICANN 7 June 2011 Recent Developments Regarding IPV6 in Turkey
Letter from Kurt Pritz to Chairman Robert Goodlatte [PDF, 263 KB] ICANN 7 June 2011 Additional Questions from the May 4, 2011 Hearing Before the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet
Letter from Erik Wilbers to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 48 KB] WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center 13 May 2011 WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center observations on ICANN's "April 2011 Discussion Draft of the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook"
Letter from Heather Dryden to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 69 KB] GAC 12 May 2011 GAC Statement on IOC and Red Cross Movement
Letter from John Bell to John Jeffrey [PDF, 58 KB] .JOBS Charter Compliance Coalition 11 May 2011 Open Letter to ICANN Regarding Employ Media Request for Arbitration
Letter from Ronald N. Andruff, et al. to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 75 KB] Ronald N. Andruff, et al. 11 May 2011 Packaged Applications for New gTLDs
Letter from Debra Y. Hughes to Kurt Pritz and Amy Stathos [PDF, 23 KB] American Red Cross 10 May 2011 Reserved Names in New gTLDs
Letter from Erik Wilbers to ICANN [PDF, 50 KB] WIPO 6 May 2011 WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Observations to ICANN for Policy Staff/GNSO Council "Current State of the UDRP Webinar"
Letter from Eric Enson to Arif Ali [PDF, 111 KB] Jones Day 6 May 2011 Arbitration After Notice of Breach to Employ Media
GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement [PDF, 90 KB] The gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group 6 May 2011 Clarification of Key Distinctions Between the Sponsored and Community-Based TLD Models
Letter from Arif Ali to Eric Enson [PDF, 47 KB] Crowell & Moring 3 May 2011 Initiation of Arbitration after Notice of Breach to Employ Media
Letter from Eric Enson to Gary Anderson [PDF, 40 KB] Jones Day 28 April 2011

Notice of Breach to Employ Media

Email from Rod Beckstrom to Raúl Echeberría [PDF, 56 KB] ICANN 28 April 2011 United Domains Announcement
Letter from Eric Enson to Arif Ali [PDF, 143 KB] Jones Day 26 April 2011 Cooperative Engagement after Notice of Breach to Employ Media
Letter from Arif Ali to Eric Enson [PDF, 392 KB] Crowell and Moring 22 April 2011 Cooperative Engagement after Notice of Breach to Employ Media
Letter from Kuo-Wei Wu to Dr. Tayfun Acarer [PDF, 15.3 MB] ICANN 22 April 2011 Recent Developments Regarding IPV6 in Turkey
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Norbert van den Hove [PDF, 109 KB] ICANN 20 April 2011 Delegation of ccTLD .BQ
Email from Arif Ali to Eric Enson [PDF, 44 KB] Crowell & Moring 18 April 2011 Cooperative Engagement after Notice of Breach to Employ Media
Letter from Eric Enson to Brian Johnson [PDF, 80 KB] Jones Day 14 April 2011 Cooperative Engagement after Notice of Breach to Employ Media
Letter from Mr. Moustapha Guirassy to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 176 KB] Telecommunications and ICT, Republic of Senegal 11 April 2011 ICANN's 42nd Public Meeting in Dakar, 23 – 28 October 2011
Letter from Debra Y. Hughes to Kurt Pritz and Amy Stathos [PDF, 68 KB] American Red Cross 5 April 2011 Reserved Names in New gTLDs
Letter from Howard M. Stupp to Kurt Pritz and Amy Stathos [PDF, 659 KB] International Olympic Committee 4 April 2011 Reserved Names in New gTLDs (Confidential Information Redacted)
Letter from Brian Winterfeldt to Amy Stathos [PDF, 28 KB] Steptoe & Johnson 1 April 2011

Notice of Breach to Employ Media

Letter from David H. Holtzman to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 866 KB] Depository 27 March 2011 149.81.0.0 - 149.81.255.255/16
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Fiona M. Alexander [PDF, 446 KB] ICANN 25 March 2011 Request for Comments on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Functions
Letter from Eric Enson to Brian Johnson [PDF, 68 KB] Jones Day 23 March 2011 Cooperative Engagement after Notice of Breach to Employ Media
Email from David Maher to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 400 KB] Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) 18 March 2011 Proposed RySG Breach Notice Procedure
Letter from David H. Holtzman to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 357 KB] Depository, Inc. 15 March 2011 Bulk Access Denial by the American Registry for Internet Numbers
Letter from Raul Echeberría to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 208 KB] NRO 14 March 2011 IANA Contract Renewal
Letter from Jeffrey J. Neuman to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 912 KB] Neustar, Inc. 10 March 2011 Request to Amend the .BIZ Registry Agreement to Enable Neustar to Serve as Both a Registry and Registrar for New gTLDs
Letter from Erik Wilbers to the ICANN Board [PDF, 45 KB] World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center 9 March 2011 WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Observations in Connection with GAC Scorecard on Rights Protection and Corresponding ICANN Board Questions
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Heather Dryden [PDF, 256 KB] ICANN 8 March 2011 Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) Report Recommendations
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Heather Dryden [PDF, 992 KB] ICANN 5 March 2011 Documenting the Board/GAC Brussels
Letters from David Holtzman to David Olive and John Jeffrey
Letter from Holtzman to Olive [PDF, 64 KB]
Letter from Holtzman to Jeffrey [PDF, 3.12 MB]
Common Exhibits: Proposed Statement of IP Policy [PDF, 92 KB]; Proposed Statement of IP Policy (Redline) [PDF, 92 KB]; Proposed Statement of Accreditation Policy [PDF, 64 KB]; Proposed Statement of Accreditation Policy (removed) [PDF, 76 KB]
Depository Inc. 2 March 2011

Policy Proposal on IP Address Registration Services

Letter from John Curran to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 7.2 MB] American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 2 March 2011 Bulk Access Denial by the American Registry for Internet Numbers
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to John Curran [PDF, 45 KB] ICANN 1 March 2011 Bulk Access Denial by the American Registry for Internet Numbers
Letter from Ieuan Wyn Jones to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 108 KB] Welsh Assembly Government 1 March 2011 .cymru
Letter from Raul Echeberría to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 103 KB] The Number Resource Organization (NRO) 24 February 2011 Implementation of a Global Trust Anchor (GTA) for the RPKI System
Letter from Norbert van den Hove to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 242 KB] Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation 17 February 2011 Delegation of ccTLD .BQ
Letter from John Jeffrey to Heather Dryden [PDF, 288 KB] ICANN 10 February 2011 ICM Consultation Resolution
Letter from Dr. Bernd Pfaffenbach, State Secretary to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 183 KB] Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany 2 February 2011 Introduction of New gTLDs
ALAC Statement [PDF, 405 KB] ALAC 2 February 2011 Regarding the Current Situation in Egypt
Letter from Urs LaCotte and Howard M. Stupp to Kurt Pritz and Amy Stathos [PDF, 286 KB] International Olympic Committee 1 February 2011 Reserved Names in New gTLDs
Letter from Diane Duke to the ICANN Board and the GAC [PDF, 934 KB] Free Speech Coalition 28 January 2011 ICM's Registry for the .XXX sTLD
Letter from David H. Holtzman to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 4 MB] The Depository, Inc. 27 January 2011 Bulk Access Denial by the American Registry for Internet Numbers
Letter from Stuart Lawley to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 168 KB] ICM Registry 24 January 2011 Consultation with GAC regarding ICM Registry and .XXX
Letter from David Maher to the ICANN Board of Directors [PDF, 65 KB] GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group 19 January 2011 ICANN Board Resolution 2010.12.10.21
Letter from Sophia Bekele to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 304 KB] DotAfrica 18 January 2011 Open Letter for NITA - A preliminary case for an urgent need for .africa gTLD
Message from Olivier Crépin-Leblond to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 100 KB] ALAC 14 January 2011 Suggestions on Forthcoming Board Meeting with the GAC
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."