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Public Comments Archive 2018

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January | February | March | April | May | June
January
TitleOpen DateClose Date
Enhancing Accountability - Recommendations for Diversity26 October 201714 January 2018
Recommendations to Improve ICANN's Office of Ombudsman (IOO)10 November 201714 January 2018
Recommendations to Improve ICANN Staff Accountability13 November 201714 January 2018
Recommendations on ICANN Jurisdiction14 November 201714 January 2018
Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team – New Sections to Draft Report of Recommendations27 November 201715 January 2018
February
TitleOpen DateClose Date
Operating Standards for ICANN's Specific Reviews17 October 20172 February 2018
Proposed Incremental Changes to the ICANN Meetings Strategy14 December 20171 February 2018
Maximal Starting Repertoire version 3 (MSR-3) for Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR)17 January 201826 February 2018
March
TitleOpen DateClose Date
ICANN Draft FY19 Operating Plan and Budget and Five-Year Operating Plan Update19 January 20188 March 2018
Proposal for Korean Root Zone‬ Label Generation Rules25 January 201817 March 2018
April
TitleOpen DateClose Date
Plan to Restart the Root Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover Process1 February 20182 April 2018
Draft Procedure for Community gTLD Change Requests 14 February 20182 April 2018
Uniform Board Member Integrity Screening Process2 March 201817 April 2018
Draft Project Plan for the Proposed Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP)2 March 201818 April 2018
ICANN Reserve Fund: Proposed Replenishment Strategy6 March 201825 April 2018
May
TitleOpen DateClose Date
Proposed Revisions to Bylaws Section 11 – Additional Voting Thresholds26 March 20185 May 2018
Draft Final Report of the NomCom2 Review27 March 20187 May 2018
CCWG-Accountability WS2 Final Report30 March 201811 May 2018
June
TitleOpen DateClose Date
Initial Report on Review of the Customer Standing Committee (CSC) Charter11 April 20181 June 2018
Draft Final Report of the RSSAC2 Review1 May 201810 June 2018
Release for Registration one .COM Domain Name with a Single-Character Label: O.COM10 May 201820 June 2018

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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."