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Termes et acronymes de l’ICANN.

Termes et acronymes de l’ICANN.

1 Novembre 2018

Apprendre à connaître l'ICANN

Apprendre à connaître l'ICANN

1 Novembre 2018

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1 Novembre 2018

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1 Novembre 2018

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L'enquête annuelle de l'espace APAC de l'ICANN est désormais ouverte

Singapour, le 15 juillet 2019. La Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN) a lancé aujourd'hui l'enquête de l'espace APAC, qui restera ouverte jusqu'au 1er août 2019 à 23h59 UTC. Vos retours contribueront...

15 Juillet 2019  |  Technology, Announcement

L’ICANN annonce les candidats retenus pour participer au Programme NextGen@ICANN66

Los Angeles, le 12 juillet 2019. La Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaines et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN) a annoncé la liste de candidats retenus pour participer au prochain Programme NextGen à l'ICANN66, qui se tiendra à Montréal...

12 Juillet 2019  |  Technology, Announcement

Recommandations issues du processus d'élaboration de politiques de la GNSO sur l'accès des OIG et OING à des mécanismes de protection de droits curatifs à soumettre au Conseil d'administration de l'ICANN pour examen

Date d'ouverture : 11 juillet 2019 Date de clôture : 20 août 2019 Organisation à l'origine de la consultation : Soutien à l'élaboration de politiques Catégories/Étiquettes : Élaboration de politiques...

11 Juillet 2019  |  Technology, Announcement

Publication de la troisième version des règles de génération d'étiquettes pour la zone racine (RZ-LGR-3 )

Los Angeles, le 10 juillet 2019. La Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN) a annoncé aujourd'hui la publication de la troisième version des règles de génération d'étiquettes pour la zone racine...

10 Juillet 2019  |  Technology, Announcement

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Celebrating Five Years of NextGen@ICANN!

Meet 6 of the impressive young people from around the world who took part in NextGen@ICANN program as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the program.

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ICANN 2019 Nominating Committee Update

Damon Ashcraft, Chair of the 2019 ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom), and Jay Sudowski, the 2019 NomCom Chair-Elect give ICANN's James Cole an update on the Committee's progress.

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Celebrating Five Years Of NextGen@ICANN!

Meet 6 of the impressive young people from around the world who took part in NextGen@ICANN program as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the program.

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Janis Karklins Talks EPDP Team Phase 2

Janis Karklins, Chair of EPDP Team Phase 2, discusses priorities for Phase 2 of the Expedited Policy Development Process on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data.

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Vulnérabilités sur l'application Zoom

Le Programme NextGen@ICANN : bilan et plans futurs

Normes opérationnelles : quelles orientations pour les révisions spécifiques de l'ICANN

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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."