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Manwin Licensing International v. ICANN

This page collects documents from the Independent Review Proceeding filed in accordance with Article IV, section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws. They are arranged by initial filing date in descending order.

Joint Letter of Dismissal of IRP [PDF, 71 KB] 8 May 2013
ICANN's Response to Manwin's Supplemental Brief on Standing [PDF, 814 KB] 25 January 2013
Manwin Supplemental Brief on Standing [PDF, 461 KB] 7 January 2013
Order on Further Briefing [PDF, 35 KB] 3 December 2012
ICANN's Response to Manwin's Response on Standing [PDF, 299 KB] 16 November 2012
Manwin's Brief on Standing to Maintain IRP [PDF, 386 KB] 15 October 2012
4 May 2012
Joint Letter to ICDR on Arbitrator Selection [PDF, 59 KB] 30 April 2012
Joint Letter to ICDR on Scheduling [PDF, 62 KB] 2 April 2012
Joint Letter to ICDR on Further Scheduling [PDF, 40 KB] 13 February 2012
Joint Letter to ICDR on Scheduling [PDF, 53 KB] 19 December 2011
Manwin's Request for Independent Review Proceeding [PDF, 8.05 MB] 16 November 2011
Manwin's Notice of Independent Review [PDF, 336 KB] 16 November 2011

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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."