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Prochaines étapes pour les révisions

Date d'ouverture : 5 septembre 2018 Date de clôture : 5 octobre 2018 Organisation à l'origine de la consultation : Stratégie multipartite et initiatives stratégiques (MSSI) Catégories/Étiquettes...

14 Septembre 2018  |  DNS Marketplace, Technology, Announcement

Rapport et recommandations de l'équipe de révision du service d'annuaire des données d'enregistrement (RDS-WHOIS2)

Date d'ouverture : 4 septembre 2018 Date de clôture : 4 novembre 2018 Organisation à l'origine de la consultation : Organisation ICANN - Stratégie multipartite et initiatives stratégiques...

14 Septembre 2018  |  WHOIS

Le Conseil d'administration tiendra une réunion publique dans le cadre de son atelier à Genval

Los Angeles, le 6 septembre 2018. Le Conseil d'administration de l'ICANN tiendra une réunion publique pendant son prochain atelier à Genval (Belgique), du 14 au 16 septembre 2018. Le programme de la réunion est présenté ci-dessous....

14 Septembre 2018

Participez dès maintenant à l'enquête sur les services de revendication de marques et d'enregistrement prioritaire

Los Angeles, le 6 septembre 2018. L'enquête sur les services d'enregistrement prioritaire (Sunrise) et de revendication de marques est déjà disponible pour les individus intéressés à partager leur avis sur ces mécanismes de protection des...

14 Septembre 2018  |  DNS Marketplace, Technology, Announcement

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An Introduction to the Business Constituency (BC)

ICANN's Mary Wong, Policy Senior Director, interviews Steve Del Bianco, BC Member, and Claudia Selli, BC Member. They provide an introduction to the Business Constituency.

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Rod Rasmussen Interview on SAC101: SSAC Advisory Regarding Access to Domain Name Registration Data

Andrew McConachie, ICANN Technical and Policy Manager, interviews Rod Rasmussen, SSAC Chair during ICANN62.

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An Introduction to the Business Constituency (BC)

ICANN's Mary Wong, Policy Senior Director, interviews Steve Del Bianco, BC Member, and Claudia Selli, BC Member. They provide an introduction to the Business Constituency.

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Rod Rasmussen Interview on SAC101: SSAC Advisory

Andrew McConachie, ICANN Technical and Policy Manager, interviews Rod Rasmussen, SSAC Chair during ICANN62.

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Suivi de l'EPDP sur la spécification temporaire relative aux données d'enregistrement des gTLD

Article de blog du président : Présentation générale de l'atelier du Conseil d'administration de Genval

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L'équipe de révision SSR2 reprend du service, intègre de nouveaux membres et met à jour ses termes de référence

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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."