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Public Comment - July 2010 archive

DNS-CERT Operational Requirements & Collaboration Analysis Workshop

(ended 2 July 10)
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Draft Changes to String Similarity Review Amendment

(ended 2 July 10)
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Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) Subsection 3.7.7.3

(ended 9 July 10)
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Questions to the Community on Accountability and Transparency within ICANN

(ended 1 July 10 Extended to 14 July 10)
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Phased Allocation Program in .JOBS

(ended 15 July 10)
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GNSO Council Operations Work Team and Constituency and Stakeholder Group Operations Work Team Recommendations

(ended 18 July 10)
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Revised Process for Selection of Sites for ICANN International Public Meeting

(ended 20 July 10)
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Draft Program Development Snapshot #2 - High Security Zone Top-Level Domain Advisory Group (HSTLD Advisory Group)

(ended 21 July 10)
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An Economic Framework for the Analysis of the Expansion of Generic Top-Level Domain Names

(ended 21 July 10)
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Joint SO/AC Working Group on New gTLD Applicant Support Snapshot

(ended 21 July 10)
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New gTLD Program - Draft Applicant Guidebook, Version 4 and Explanatory Memoranda

(ended 21 July 10)
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New gTLD Program Budget

(ended 21 July 10)
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Transparency and Accountability Wiki Project - ICANN Board Resolutions - Draft - 2009

(ended 26 July 10)
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Initial Report on Proposals for Improvements to the RAA

(ended 9 July 10 Extended to 30 July 10)
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Meetings for the Next Decade, Stage One

(ended 5 July 10; 19 July 2010 Extended to 30 July 10)
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Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Initial Report

(ended 25 July 10 Extended to 8 August 10)
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Proposed Bylaws Amendment to Add Voting Director from the At-Large Community to the ICANN Board of Directors

(ended 31 July 10 Extended to 15 August 10)
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ccNSO Review – External Reviewers’ Final Report

(ended 30 July 10 Extended to 15 September 10)
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The New GNSO Policy Development Process - the PDP-WT Initial Report

(ended 15 July 10; Extended to 31 August Extended to 30 September 10)
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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."