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Supplément au Rapport initial de la deuxième étape du processus accéléré d'élaboration de politiques (EPDP) sur la spécification temporaire relative aux données d’enregistrement des gTLD

Date d'ouverture : 26 mars 2020 Date de clôture : 5 mai 2020 Organisation à l'origine de la consultation : Organisation de soutien aux extensions génériques (GNSO) Catégories/Étiquettes : Accords entre...

26 Mars 2020  |  Technology, Announcement

Invitation à participer à la séance d’identification de tendances et de perspectives stratégiques

Los Angeles, le 23 mars 2020. La Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN) invite la communauté à participer à une séance ouverte d'identification de perspectives stratégiques afin de l'aider à se tenir au...

23 Mars 2020  |  Technology, Announcement

Annulation du Sommet de l’industrie GDD et du Symposium de l’ICANN sur le DNS

Los Angeles, le 18 mars 2020. La Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN) a annoncé aujourd'hui l'annulation du Sommet de l'industrie GDD et du Symposium de l'ICANN sur le DNS, qui devaient avoir lieu à...

18 Mars 2020  |  Technology, Announcement

Rapport initial de la première étape du processus d'élaboration de politiques relatif aux mécanismes de protection des droits dans tous les gTLD

Date d'ouverture : 18 mars 2020 Date de clôture : 27 avril 2020 Organisation à l'origine de la consultation : Organisation de soutien aux extensions génériques (GNSO) Catégories/Étiquettes : Accords...

18 Mars 2020  |  Technology, Announcement

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ICANN67 Welcome from ICANN President & CEO Göran Marby

ICANN's President & CEO Göran Marby thanks everyone for their understanding, patience, and support as ICANN67 changes from an in-person meeting to an entirely remote Public Meeting. Marby also...

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Welcome to ICANN67 from ICANN Board Chair Maarten Botterman

ICANN Board Chair Maarten Botterman thanks the community for joining ICANN’s first entirely virtual Public Meeting. Botterman says the moment is a testament to the Internet’s ability to bring...

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2020 NomCom Update

Jay Sudowski, Chair of the 2020 ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom), Ole Jacobsen, the 2020 NomCom Chair-Elect and Damon Ashcraft, the 2020 NomCom Associate Chair, give ICANN's James Cole an update...

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Customer Standing Committee (CSC) Update At ICANN66

Byron Holland, Chair, Inaugural CSC, discusses the successes and future of the CSC.

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L’équipe EPDP publie un supplément à son Rapport initial sur l’étape 2 pour consultation publique

Version 1.0 de la plateforme de données ouvertes de l’ICANN : un succès multipartite

Blog du président du Conseil d'administration : une synthèse de l'atelier virtuel du Conseil d'administration du mois de mars

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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."