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Correspondence Affiliation Date Issue
Letter from Seon-Hak Choi to Paul Twomey [PDF, 26 KB] KT 31 December 2004 .NET RFP
Letter from Jonghong Wong to Paul Twomey [PDF, 22 KB] Gabia Inc. 27 December 2004 Existing and Future Operation of .NET
Letter from Charles Lee to Paul Twomey [PDF, 22 KB] YesNIC, Co., Ltd. 24 December 2004 Existing and Future Operation of .NET
Letter from Kevin Golden to John Jeffrey [PDF, 226 KB] VeriSign, Inc 23 December 2004 .NET Request for Proposals
Letter from Sabine Dolderer to Paul Twomey [PDF, 44 KB] DENIC 16 December 2004 Transfer of .net Registration Fees
Message from Haugnes Hakon to Dam Tina Global Name Registry 14 December 2004 Free Trial of .NAME Domains/Emails
Email from Roland LaPlante to Tina Dam Afilias 2 December 2004 .INFO Pricing
Letter from Paul Twomey to Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi [PDF, 48 KB] GAC 1 December 2004 GAC
Letter from Rick White to Donald Evans [PDF, 27 KB] TechNet 17 November 2004 .net Request for Proposal
Letter from Mark Shull to Paul Twomey [PDF, 42 KB] MarkMonitor 9 November 2004 .net Registry Operation
Letter from Kathy Smith to Dan Halloran [PDF, 80 KB] U.S. Department of Commerce 4 November 2004 Changes to RRA in Order to Implement Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
Letter from Richard Tindel to Paul Twomey [PDF, 152 KB] NeuLevel, Inc 1 November 2004 .net and endorsements
Letter from Dan Halloran to Charles Gomes [PDF, 16 KB] VeriSign, Inc 1 November 2004 Changes to RRA in Order to Implement Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
Message from Chuck Gomes to Kurt Pritz VeriSign, Inc 27 October 2004 RRA Amendments for Transfer Policy
Letter from Richard Tindal to Kurt Pritz [PDF, 810 KB] NeuLevel Inc 25 October 2004 .net Request for Proposal
Letter from Madame Cj Duffy to Paul Twomey World Tourism Foundation, Inc. 15 October 2004 .travel
Letter from Paul Twomey to Adiel Akplogan [PDF, 28 KB] AfriNIC Ltd 11 October 2004 AfriNIC as a Regional Internet Registry
Letter from Jonathan Schwartz to Paul Twomey [PDF, 66 KB] Sun Microsystems, Inc 8 October 2004 .net TLD Operator
Letter from Gert Schmitt-Nilson to John Jeffrey FICPI 1 October 2004 sTLD RFP.
Letter from Ahmad Ouri to Paul Twomey [PDF, 41 KB] Thomson Digital Media Solutions 30 September 2004 Endorsement of VeriSign's role as registry operator
Letter from Ted Cucci to Paul Twomey [PDF, 29 KB] ItsYourDomain.com 29 September 2004 .net Registry Operation
Letter from Kevin Golden to Kurt Pritz [PDF, 294 KB] Verisign 24 September 2004 .net Request for Proposal
Letter from Paul Twomey to Steve Crocker [PDF, 22 KB] ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee 22 September 2004 Request for Assistance with Development of New TLD Policy
Letter from Paul Twomey to Leslie Daigle [PDF, 22 KB] Internet Architecture Board 22 September 2004 Request for Assistance with Development of New TLD Policy
Letter from Kurt Pritz to Rusty Lewis [DOC, 25 KB] ICANN 17 September 2004 .net Request for Proposal
Letter from Dieter Horn to Paul Twomey [PDF, 60 KB] Deutsche Telekom 10 September 2004 .net Infrastructure Operation
Letter from Richard Tindal to Kurt Pritz, John Jeffrey [PDF, 1.01 MB] NeuLevel, Inc 1 September 2004 .net Request for Proposals
Letter from Kevin Golden to John Jeffrey [PDF, 49 KB] Verisign 25 August 2004 Objections to the Criteria for Designating Successor .net Registry Operator
Letter From Irving Wladawsky-Berger to Paul Twomey [PDF, 23 KB] IBM Corporation 24 August 2004 .net Registry
Letter from Paul Twomey to Geir Rasmussen [PDF, 22 KB] The Global Name Registry, Limited 15 August 2004 Internationalized Domain Names
VeriSign Response to SSAC [PDF, 2.48 MB] VeriSign 5 August 2004 Redirection in the COM and NET Domains
Letter from Paul Twomey to Richard Tindal [PDF, 22 KB] NeuLevel 29 July 2004 Internationalized Domain Names
Letter from Craig Mundie to Donald Evans [PDF, 26 KB] Microsoft 20 July 2004 .net Registry
Email from Tina Dam to gTLD Registry Operators and Sponsors Registries and Sponsors 18 July 2004 Registrar Applications
Letter from Dieter Horn to Paul Twomey [PDF, 35 KB] Deutsche Telekom 16 July 2004 .net Infrastructure Operation
Letter from Jerry Berman to Paul Twomey [PDF, 428 KB] Center for Democracy & Technology 15 July 2004 ICANN and Internet Governance
Letter from Jonathan Crane to Paul Twomey [PDF, 15 KB] MCI 15 July 2004 .net TLD Operator Bid
Letter from Chip Pickering to Donald Evans [PDF, 98 KB] Congress of the United States 14 July 2004 ICANN Rebidding Process for TLD .net
Letter from Erik Wilbers to Paul Twomey [PDF, 117 KB] WIPO 14 July 2004 WIPO
Letter from Constantine Dantoulis to Paul Twomey [PDF, 25 KB] Internap 13 July 2004 .net TLD Operator Bid
Letter from John Jeffrey to Kevin Golden [PDF, 101 KB] Verisign 18 June 2004 .net Registry Operator Selection
Letter from Keke Yang to Paul Twomey [PDF, 52 KB] China Telcom Group 28 May 2004 .net TLD Operator Bid
Letter from Hongqi Liu to Paul Twomey [PDF, 59 KB] China Netcom Group Labs 25 May 2004 .net TLD Operator Bid
Letter from Kevin Golden to John Jeffrey [PDF, 738 KB] Verisign 19 May 2004 Dot-Net Reassignment
Letter from Derek Newman to Jeffrey LeVee [PDF, 463 KB] Newman&Newman 28 April 2004 Registersite vs ICANN Lawsuit
Letter from Paul Twomey to Francis Gurry [PDF, 72 KB] WIPO 27 April 2004 Request for Assistance with Development of New TLD Policy
Letter from Jeffrey LeVee to Derek Newman [PDF, 13 KB] ICANN 15 April 2004 Registersite vs ICANN Lawsuit
Letter from NRO to ICANN NRO 24 February 2004 Proposed ASO MoU
Letter from Newman & Newman to Paul Twomey [PDF, 66 KB] Registrars 17 February 2004 Wait-List Service
Letter from ICANN to NRO [PDF, 26 KB] Regional Internet Registries 29 January 2004 Proposed new Address Supporting Organization Memorandum of Understanding
Letter from John Jeffrey to Rusty Lewis [PDF, 94 KB] VeriSign 26 January 2004 Wait-List Service
Letter from Paul Twomey to Cary Karp MuseDoma 20 January 2004 Internationalized Domain Names
Letter from Francis Gurry to ICANN [PDF, 1.62 MB] WIPO 14 January 2004 WIPO2
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."