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December
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Draft Implementation Plan for IDN ccTLDs 23 October 08 8 December 08 Extended to 7 January 09
CRAI Report on gTLD Registries and Registrars 19 October 08 8 December 08 Extended to 15 December 08
New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook 23 October 08 8 December 08 Extended to 15 December 08
ALAC Review Mid-Point Consultation Report 23 October 08 12 December 08
Independent Reviewer’s Report on the ICANN Board 2 November 08 12 December 08
Draft 2009-2012 Strategic Plan Final Comment 1 December 08 15 December 08
Proposed Bylaws Change 17 November 08 17 December 08

 

November
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
GNSO Bylaw Revision 13 October 08 3 November 08
Draft Strategic Plan Priorities 23 October 08 17 November 08
Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy 20 October 08 20 November 08
The Role of Individual Internet Users in the GNSO 28 October 08 28 November 08

 

October
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Denials Definitions PDP 15 September 08 6 October 08
Improving Institutional Confidence 19 September 08 20 October 08
Proposed Bylaws Revision 23 September 08 23 October 08

 

September
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
SSAC Review Draft Terms of Reference 13 August 08 5 September 08
Economic Case for Auctions in New gTLDs 8 August 08 7 September 08
Independent Review of the ALAC - Final Report 25 July 08 12 September 08
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Issues 5 September 08 29 September 08

 

August
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Draft Proposed Changes to Registrar Accreditation Agreement 18 June 08 4 August 08
gTLD Registry Failover Plan 15 July 08 14 August 08
Final Report of IDNC Working Group on ccTLD Fast Track Mechanisms 15 July 08 15 August 08
CAC UDRP Pilot Project 22 July 08 21 August 08
.COOP and .MOBI Proposed Contract Changes to Allocate Single-Character Names 28 July 08 22 August 08
Proposed ICANN Board of Director’s Code of Conduct 15 July 08 29 August 08

 

July
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Draft/Interim Terminated Registrar Transition Procedure 6 June 08 7 July 08
Proposed Global Policy for Autonomous System Numbers 16 June 08 7 July 08
Meetings Reform 9 June 08 10 July 08
Single Character Name Allocation Framework 13 June 08 13 July 08
Proposed GNSO Top Level Implementation Plan 25 June 08 17 July 08
Draft Final ALAC Independent Review 13 June 08 18 July 08
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy – Denial of Transfers (Reasons #8 and #9) 26 June 08 18 July 08
Improving Institutional Confidence 16 June 08 31 July 08

 

June
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Operating Plan and Budget 2009 17 May 08 17 June 08
PIR's Proposed Implementation of DNSSEC 5 June 08 20 June 08
Travel Support 2 June 08 20 June 08
Draft Final Report - IDNC WG Recommendations for ccTLD Fast Track Mechanisms (IDN ccTLD Fast Track) 13 June 08 23 June 08

 

May
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Absentee Voting 30 April 08 21 May 08
Domain Tasting 30 April 08 21 May 08
PIR’s Proposed Implementation of DNSSEC 23 April 08 24 May 08

 

April
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Initial Report 18 March 08 7 April 08
RegistryPro Contract Amendments 14 March 08 10 April 08
Nominating Committee Review 24 October 08 11 April 08
ICANN Travel Support Policy 3 March 08 24 April 08
Discussion Draft of Interim Report of IDNC WG (IDN ccTLD Fast Track) 31 March 08 25 April 08

 

March
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
New gTLDs — DNS Stability 6 February 08 7 March 08
Translation Programme 13 February 08 14 March 08
GNSO Improvements Report 2008 25 February 08 25 March 08 Extended to 25 April 08
Add Grace Period Modifications 27 February 08 26 March 08
Domain Tasting 7 March 08 28 March 08

 

February
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Whois Studies 8 January 08 15 February 08
Initial Report on ccIDN Fast-Track 1 February 08 26 February 08

 

January
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Introduction of IDN ccTLDs 19 December 08 25 January 08 Extended to 22 February 08
Domain Tasting Initial Report 8 January 08 28 January 08
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."