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ICANN Newsletter | Week ending 16 February 2007

A weekly electronic newsletter from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Announcements This Week

ICANN Publishes Revision to Proposed ICM (.XXX) Registry Agreement for Public Comment

16 February 2007

ICANN Ombudsman Releases Report

15 February 2007 | The ICANN Office of the Ombudsman has released a report [PDF, 65 KB] concerning the At-Large Advisory Committee and its handling of an application for At-Large Status. The Ombudsman's Report contains twelve recommendations.

RSSAC and SSAC Seek Community Feedback on DNS Resolver Support for IPv6 DNS Records and DNS Extensions (EDNS0)

12 February 2007 | The joint committees are soliciting feedback from the Internet community on whether DNS servers (software and hardware appliance) organizations use to provide recursive name service will operate correctly when IP version 6 (type AAAA) resource records are added to the root hints file and root zone.

ICANN Office of the Ombudsman Introduces Web Log

12 February 2007

ICANN in the News

DNS Attack Puts Web Security in Perspective (InfoWorld)

16 February 2007

Lessons Learned From 'Net Root Server Attack (Computerworld)

12 February 2007

Hackers Attack Heart of the Net (BBC News)

7 February 2007

ICANN Featured Individual: Patrick Jones, Registry Liaison Manager

Patrick Jones is ICANN's Registry Liaison Manager. In that capacity he manages the process for new registry services, and assists gTLD registries with any ICANN-related issues. Patrick is currently serving as project manager for ICANN's registry failover plan and data escrow review. Patrick is also providing support to the 2007 Nominating Committee.

Patrick joined ICANN in March 2006 after working for nearly five years in a law firm in Washington DC, where he assisted with e-commerce issues, domain name protection and intellectual property enforcement for a variety of clients, including the International Olympic Committee and the American Red Cross. In addition, Patrick provided government relations and policy consulting on new TLDs. From 2001 – 2005, he maintained UDRPlaw.net, an informational website on domain name disputes. UDRPlaw.net was one of the first informational websites on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

Before working in Washington, Patrick served as a law clerk in the Office of General Counsel to the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Indianapolis, Indiana. Patrick holds a law degree from Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis and is a 1996 graduate of Wabash College with a degree in Political Science (international relations specialization).

Upcoming Events

21 February 2007 – 2 March 2007 — APRICOT 2007, Bali, Indonesia

22 – 23 February 2007 — GNSO Top Level Domain Committee Meeting, Los Angeles, USA

The GNSO Council's new Top Level Domain Committee is meeting in Los Angeles 22 & 23 February 2007 to continue its consultation on policies for the introduction of new top level domains. The Committee's work over the last twelve months can be found at http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/. The Committee will be revising the draft Final Report (found at http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/GNSO-PDP-Dec05-FR-14Nov06.pdf [PDF, 132 KB]) in time for ICANN's Lisbon meeting. The meetings are open to observers and will be accessible through a teleconference bridge for remote participants.

24 – 25 February 2007 — Meeting of GNSO's Task Force on Policies for Contractual Conditions for Existing Registries (PDP Feb06), Los Angeles, USA

The GNSO's Task Force on Policies for Contractual Conditions for Existing Registries (PDP Feb06) will be meeting in Los Angeles on 24 & 25 February 2007 to complete its work on the Task Forces draft recommendations. The working documents of the Task Force can be found at http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/GNSO-PDP-Feb06-TFR-07nov06.pdf [PDF, 276 KB]. The meetings are open to observers and will be accessible through a teleconference bridge for remote participants.

26 February 2007 – 2 March 2007 — APNIC 23, Bali, Indonesia

8 – 9 March 2007 — CENTR General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic

26 – 30 March 2007 — ICANN Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

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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."