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  • Tech@ICANN58: Your Roadmap to Copenhagen's Technical Sessions

    As we start our meeting here in Copenhagen with a packed agenda, I would like to share with you some of the key sessions that have a more technical focus. I hope that this will be useful to newcomers with a technical background, so they can easily find their way...

  • Welcome to Copenhagen

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    I am very glad to be here in Denmark and hope to talk to as many of you as possible while we’re here at the Community Forum. This has been a big year for accountability in the ICANN ecosystem. We are under new, enhanced and improved accountability measures. We are on a...

  • Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Denmark

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    1. The Danish word hygge was rated one of the top 10 words of 2016. In fact, hygge ranked right behind Brexit in Collins Dictionary’s words of the year. Hygge refers to a feeling of togetherness and intimacy related to relaxing with family and friends. The best English...

  • 关于丹麦您不知道的 10 件事

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    1. 丹麦词 hygge 被评为 2016 年度 10 大词汇之一。 事实上，在柯林斯词典公布的年度词汇榜单中，hygge 仅次于 Brexit。Hygge 是指一种与家人和朋友休闲时的归属感和亲密感。最贴近的英文翻译是"coziness"（温馨）。在漫长、黑暗的冬季，摇曳的烛光、舒适的毛毯和温热的饮品可为丹麦家庭带来 hygge，这也解释了为何丹麦人如此幸福。 2.端到端摆放，丹麦一年卖出的乐高积木的总数量可以绕地球五圈。 1934 年，丹麦木匠奥勒·基奥克·克里斯第森 (Ole Kirk Christiansen)...

  • Top 10 Things to Do in Copenhagen

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    The seaside city of Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark – it’s rich in cultural, historic and culinary traditions. Be sure to carve out some time from your busy schedule at ICANN58 and get to know the city. Copenhagen is ideal for wandering around, but if you want to be...

  • Welcome to ICANN58

    Jean-Jacques Sahel, ICANN's VP, Global Stakeholder Engagement, Europe, welcomes you to ICANN58 in the beautiful seaside city of Copenhagen. In this video, Sahel stresses the importance of participation and collaboration at ICANN. He says that with the many sessions...

  • ICANN Board to Hold Two Open Meetings at ICANN58

    As part of an ongoing pilot program following up on its commitment to open sessions, the ICANN Board of Directors will make two of its sessions at ICANN58 in Copenhagen open to the community and public. The Board invites all interested individuals to join. Note that times...

  • The Fellowship Spirit | Part One of a Four-Part Blog Series

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    As the ICANN community, organization and Board prepare for ICANN58 in Copenhagen, I am already looking ahead to ICANN59 in Johannesburg. It’s not because I prefer warm sun over winter chill – it’s the anticipation of the upcoming 10-year anniversary of the ICANN...

  • Countdown to ICANN58: Copenhagen

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    In less than two weeks, the Internet community will gather in the Danish capital of Copenhagen for ICANN58. One of the oldest capitals in Europe and a hotbed of tech innovation, Copenhagen offers something for everyone – from history to art to food and more. Against the...

  • Six Weeks in Contractual Compliance and Consumer Safeguards

    At the start of 2017, I took over for Allen Grogan as the head of ICANN's Contractual Compliance and Consumer Safeguards department. As part of my on-the-job training, I spend a lot of my time on community outreach, which is critical to success in this role. This week, I...

  • The Problem with "The Seven Keys"

    From time to time, articles are published about "the seven people who control the keys to the Internet.” These articles, while probably well-intentioned, are completely incorrect. Let’s be absolutely clear: there are no keys that cause the Internet to function (or not to...

  • ICANN Expands Engagement in the Caribbean in 2016

    Bridgetown, Barbados In 2016, ICANN’s Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) team promoted the domain name system (DNS) industry across the Caribbean region. Planning started for the DNS Study in the Caribbean. We presented on the DNS industry at many local, national and...

  • Chairman’s Blog

    Over the next few months I will be using this blog to share some insights and commentary on the operation of the ICANN Board and to introduce various Board members. This past week the Board passed a resolution to evolve the Board Governance Committee to be more responsive...

  • Am I Being Respectful and Constructive?

    Anybody who has volunteered to coach an amateur or school team knows what it is like to have the crowd scream insults or profanity at them. The attack comes across without fail as a personal attack; one of bullying and intimidation of the volunteer coach. The fact the...

  • Travel to and from the United States

    Late last week, the United States Government issued an Executive Order addressing immigration and visa status for some countries and people entering or planning to enter the country. This situation has affected one Board member’s participation in the Board Workshop taking...

  • ICANN Extends Engagement in Brazil in 2016

    Expanding Our Outreach Brazil is a vast country, where engagement means traveling long distances. In 2016 we crossed the country from north to south to engage with an impressive collection of current and potential stakeholders. Our Global Stakeholder Engagement team: Met...

  • 2016 LAC Strategy Highlights

    The LAC strategy made good progress in 2016. We presented a study [PDF, 3.7 MB] that helped to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the domain name system (DNS) industry in our region, we officially launched the Latin American DNS Observatory, we held four editions...

  • Remote Hub Relaunches for ICANN58 with Updated Guidelines

    In 2015–2016, ICANN's Development and Public Responsibility Department began oversight of remote hub operations for ICANN's Public Meetings. The past two meetings, ICANN56 and ICANN57, did not offer the remote hub option due to the unique nature of our first Policy Forum...

  • 2017: Introducing the New ICANN Korea Team

    Minjung Park (left) and Billy Cheon (right), the new seconded staff from the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) to ICANN. Our Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) established the ICANN Seoul Office, including...

  • 2017: 새로운 ICANN 한국 팀 소개

    한국인터넷진흥원(KISA)과의 MOU(양해 각서)를 통해 KISA 직원의 ICANN 임시 파견을 포함하여 ICANN 서울 사무소가 설립되었습니다. 한국 지사장으로 황인표 님의 뒤를 이어 빌리 천(Billy Cheon) 님이 취임하고 글로벌 이해관계자 참여 한국 책임자로 송강수 님의 뒤를 이어 박민정 님이 취임함을 알려드립니다. 특히 KISA와 ICANN 간 더 나은 공조가 이루어질 수 있도록 그동안 ICANN을 위해 힘써주신 황인표 님과 송강수 님에게 감사드립니다. 지난해 8월에는...

  • Implementation Update

    As you are aware, last year the Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability's Work Stream 1 Report recommended that the key parts of the Affirmation of Commitments be brought into the ICANN Bylaws, and that the Affirmation itself be terminated. As of 1...

  • 2016 LAC Communications Highlights

    ICANN's Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) team is constantly working to increase regional participation by providing new opportunities to engage with ICANN. The following is a recap of our 2016 communications efforts that not only includes strengthening ICANN's...

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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."