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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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Qu’est-ce que la communauté habilitée ?

1 Novembre 2018

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Ne manquez pas votre bulletin d'informations ICANN !

1 Novembre 2018

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Étude sur l'utilisation technique des règles de génération d'étiquettes pour la zone racine

Date d'ouverture : 15 mai 2019 Date de clôture : 30 juin 2019 Organisation à l'origine de la consultation : ICANN : Division des domaines mondiaux Catégories/Étiquettes : Domaines de premier niveau...

20 Mai 2019  |  Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology, Announcement

L'organisation ICANN publie sa première évaluation d'impact sur les droits de l'homme

Los Angeles, le 15 mai 2019. La Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaines et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN) a publié aujourd'hui sa première Évaluation d'impact sur les droits de l'homme (HRIA). Le rapport, établi par Löning – Human Rights...

15 Mai 2019  |  Technology, Announcement

Prolongation de l’appel à candidatures du Programme NextGen pour l’ICANN66

Los Angeles, le 14 mai 2019. La Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (lCANN) a prolongé son appel à candidatures pour les personnes intéressées à participer à sa 66e réunion (ICANN66) à Montréal (Canada), à...

14 Mai 2019  |  Technology, Announcement

Le rapport d'activités du Programme de bourses à l'ICANN64 et les manifestations d'intérêt pour l'ICANN65 sont désormais disponibles

Los Angeles, le 13 mai 2019. Le rapport des activités menées par le Programme de bourses à Ia 64e réunion de l'ICANN est désormais disponible ici [PDF, 344 KB]. Ce rapport est élaboré par les boursiers et fournit des détails sur les activités...

13 Mai 2019  |  Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology, Announcement

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Universal Acceptance (UA) Ambassadors Share Their Experiences

Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Secretary General Don Hollander interviews UA Ambassador Mark W. Datysgeld, UA Ambassador Ashish Modi, Chair UASG Ajay Data, Vice-Chair – UASG Dušan...

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Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) Update

ICANN's Brad White, North America Communications Director sits down with GNSO Chair Keith Drazek and GNSO Council Liaison to the EPDP Team Rafik Dammak to discuss Expedited Policy Development...

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Universal Acceptance (UA) Ambassadors Share Their

Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Secretary General Don Hollander interviews UA Ambassador Mark W. Datysgeld, UA Ambassador Ashish Modi, Chair UASG Ajay Data, Vice-Chair – UASG Dušan...

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Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) Update

ICANN's Brad White, North America Communications Director sits down with GNSO Chair Keith Drazek and GNSO Council Liaison to the EPDP Team Rafik Dammak to discuss Expedited Policy Development...

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L’ICANN participe à la prochaine édition du Sommet africain de l'Internet

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L’ICANN participe à la prochaine édition du Sommet africain de l'Internet

Migration vers Zoom : point d'étape et réponses aux retours

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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."