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December
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
.POST Sponsorship Agreement 2 November 09 1 December 09
Draft Topic Paper for Policy on Introduction of Internationalised ccTLDs 4 November 09 4 Decembe 09
CAC Proposed Amendments to the UDRP Supplemental Rules of the Czech Arbitration Court 11 November 09 11 December 09
Expressions of Interest in New gTLDs 11 November 09 11 December 09

 

November
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Amendment for Partial Bulk Transfer in dot-COM & dot-NET 16 October 09 16 November 09
Expedited Registry Security Request (ERSR) 1 October 09 1 November 09 Extended to 16 November 2009
Domain Names Registered Using a Privacy or Proxy Service 2 October 09 6 November 09 Extended to 20 November 09
Board Review – Draft Final Working Group Report 5 October 09 4 November 09 Extended to 22 November 09
NomCom Review – Draft Working Group Report 5 October 09 4 November 09 Extended to 22 November 09
SSAC Review – Draft Working Group Report 5 October 09 4 November 09 Extended to 22 November 09
Proposed Rights Protection Mechanisms in New gTLDs 5 October 09 22 November 09
Version 3 of New gTLD Applicant Guidebook 4 October 09 22 November 09
Root Scaling Study Team Report 1 October 09 29 November 09
TNO Report Describing Root Scaling Model 1 October 09 29 November 09

 

October
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy Development Process 14 September 09 5 October 09
Document Publication Operational Policy 8 September 09 8 October 09
Recommendations For Updated GNSO Council Operating Procedures 25 September 09 16 October 09

 

September
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Initial Report of Geographic Regions Review Working Group 31 July 09 4 September 09
Security & Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) Retreat 18 August 09 8 September 09
Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery 20 August 09 10 September 09
ACSO Summary Document 25 August 09 24 September 09
Proposed Bylaw Changes to Improve Accountability 27 July 09 25 September 09 Extended to 27 November 09

 

August
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Bylaw Amendment Related to Organizational Review Cycles 10 July 09 9 August 09
Modification of UDRP Rules 13 July 09 12 August 09
Proposed ICANN Meeting Dates 2011 - 2013 13 July 09 14 August 09
Bylaw Amendments Related to Restructuring of the GNSO Council (Version 2) 3 August 09 24 August 09

 

July
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Board Review – Second Review Working Group Report 5 June 09 5 July 09
Travel Support Guidelines for Community Members 3 June 09 6 July 09
Proposals for Systematization of Organizational Review Processes 8 June 09 8 July 09
City TLD Constituency Petition and Charter 5 June 09 10 July 09
One & Two-Character Names in dot-travel 10 June 09 10 July 09
Fast Track Implementation (3rd Revision) 31 May 09 15 July 09
.PRO Fee Amendment 17 June 09 17 July 09
Applicant Guidebook Analysis and Excerpts 31 May 09 20 July 09
New gTLDs – Final Reports on Competition and Pricing 6 June 09 20 July 09
GNSO Stakeholder Group Charters 30 June 09 21 July 09 Extended to 23 July 09
Bylaw Amendments Related to GNSO Restructuring 30 June 09 29 July 09
Root Server System Scaling Study 29 May 09 31 July 09

 

June
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Revised Conflicts of Interest Policy 6 May 09 5 June 09
Single, Two and Select Three Character Names in Dot-pro 6 May 09 5 June 09
Revised gTLD Registries Stakeholder Petition 11 May 09 10 June 09
FY10 Operating Plan and Budget 17 May 09 17 June 09
Plan for Enhanced Internet Security, Stability and Resiliency 21 May 09 19 June 09
ccNSO Review (Terms of Reference) 26 May 09 28 June 09
SSAC Review (Final Report) 21 May 09 28 June 09
Trademark Protection (IRT Final Report) 29 May 09 29 June 09 Extended to 6 July 09
Expense Analysis 29 May 09 29 June 09 Extended to 13 July 09

 

May
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Reallocation of Dot-info Sunrise Domains 3 April 09 2 May 09
Report on Improving Institutional Confidence Plan 12 March 09 11 May 09
New Consumers Constituency Petition and Charter 15 April 09 14 May 09
New IDNgTLD Constituency Petition and Charter 21 April 09 20 May 09
IRT Draft Report 24 April 09 24 May 09
Proposed Registrar Disqualification Procedure 27 February 09 28 May 09

 

April
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
New CyberSafety Constituency Petition and Charter 5 March 09 5 April 09
New GNSO Stakeholder Group Petitions and Charters 5 March 09 5 April 09 Extended to 15 April 09
Fast Track Proposed Solutions 18 February 09 6 April 09
GNSO-Approved RAA Amendments 6 March 09 6 April 09
Ombudsman Framework 13 March 09 12 April 09
New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook, Version 2 (V2) 18 February 09 13 April 09
ALAC review WG draft Final Report 11 February 09 17 April 09 Extended to 30 April 09
Board Review – Working Group Interim Report 3 March 09 17 April 09
New gTLDs – Preliminary Reports on Competition and Pricing 4 March 09 17 April 09
SSAC Review – Independent Reviewers' Draft Report 20 March 09 22 April 09
Travel Support 24 March 09 24 April 09
Proposed Framework for ICANN's FY10 Operating Plan and Budget 17 February 09 30 April 09

 

March
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
More Detailed Expense Reporting 2 February 09 2 March 09
.BIZ Proposed Amendment for Single and Two-Character Names 13 February 09 15 March 09
Proposed Charter of Geographic Regions Review Working Group 18 February 09 24 March 09
RSSAC Review – Independent Consultants' Final Report 25 February 09 27 March 09 Extended to 17 April 09

 

February
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Fast Flux Hosting Initial Report 26 January 09 15 February 09
GNSO Constituency Renewals 2009 4 February 09 25 February 09
Proposed Global Policy for Remaining IPv4 Address Space 5 February 09 26 February 09

 

January
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Bylaws Revisions re: Committees 9 December 08 9 January 09
Proposed .AERO Sponsorship Agreement 19 December 08 19 January 09
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (Initial Report) 9 January 09 30 January 09
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."