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December
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Proposed Changes to the ICANN Bylaws Article XI: Advisory Committees Relating to the Charter and Membership of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) 3 November 2010 2 December 2010
ATRT Draft Proposed Recommendations 3 November 2010 3 December 2010
Accountability & Transparency Review – Community Feedback 9 July 2010 4 December 2010
Proposed Bylaws Amendment to Create a Non-Voting Chair-Elect to the Nominating Committee 10 November 2010 10 December 2010
Proposed Bylaws Amendments Changing Term Ending Dates for Supporting Organization and At-Large Selected Board Members 8 November 2010 8 December 2010 Extended to 8 January 2011
JAS WG Milestone Report and Accompanying Addenda 11 November 2010 15 December 2010 Extended to 10 January 2011
Draft Final Report on Policy Aspects Regarding Introduction of Single Character IDN TLDs 4 December 2010 30 December 2010 Extended to 12 January 2011
Proposed Final New gTLD Applicant Guidebook 12 November 2010 10 December 2010 Extended to 15 January 2011 at 12:00 UTC
Review of IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process 22 October 2010 17 December 2010 Extended to 31 January 2011

 

November
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Public Participation Committee Webinar Information 4 October 2010 3 November 2010
Delegation Rate Scenarios for New gTLDs 6 October 2010 5 November 2010
Summary of the Impact of Root Zone Scaling 6 October 2010 5 November 2010
One and Two-Character ASCII .TEL Domain Names 11 October 2010 10 November 2010
Allow the Allocation of Numeric-Only (Excluding Single-Digit) Domains in .TEL 14 October 2010 13 November 2010
TLG Review – Independent External Reviewers' Draft Report 23 October 2010 21 November 2010

 

October
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Numbers and Hyphens in .NAME Domain Names 16 September 2010 16 October 2010
Community Working Group Report on Implementation of GNSO New gTLD Recommendation Number 6 22 September 2010 22 October 2010
ACDR Proposal to be Recognized as an Official Dispute Resolution Provider Under the UDRP 28 September 2010 28 October 2010
Privacy Proxy Registration Services Study Report 14 September 2010 28 October 2010
FY 11 Update to Plan for Enhancing Internet Security, Stability and Resiliency 13 September 2010 13 October 2010 Extended to 3 November 2010

 

September
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Interim Paper on Policy Aspects Regarding Introduction of Single Character IDN TLDs 27 July 2010 9 September 2010
ccNSO Working Group Paper on Delegation, Redelegation and Retirement of ccTLDs 16 June 2010 15 September 2010
Revised Proposed Registry Agreement for .XXX sTLD and Due Diligence Documentation 24 August 2010 23 September 2010

 

August
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Proposed Changes to the ICANN Bylaws Article XI: Advisory Committees Relating to the Membership of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) 2 July 2010 1 August 2010
Proposed Bylaws Amendment to Allow Remuneration of Board Chair 6 July 2010 5 August 2010
Initial Report on Vertical Integration Between Registrars and Registries 23 July 2010 12 August 2010
Proposed Global Policy for Autonomous System Numbers 23 July 2010 13 August 2010
Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Initial Report 12 July 2010 1 August 2010 Extended to 15 August 2010

 

July
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
DNS-CERT Operational Requirements & Collaboration Analysis Workshop 24 May 2010 2 July 2010
Draft Changes to String Similarity Review Amendment 11 June 2010 2 July 2010
Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) Subsection 3.7.7.3 14 May 2010 9 July 2010
Questions to the Community on Accountability and Transparency within ICANN 18 May 2010 1 July 2010 Extended to: 14 July 2010
Phased Allocation Program in .JOBS 15 June 2010 15 July 2010
GNSO Council Operations Work Team and Constituency and Stakeholder Group Operations Work Team Recommendations 28 June 2010 18 July 2010
Revised Process for Selection of Sites for ICANN International Public Meeting 21 June 2010 20 July 2010
Draft Program Development Snapshot #2 - High Security Zone Top-Level Domain Advisory Group (HSTLD Advisory Group) 16 June 2010 21 July 2010
An Economic Framework for the Analysis of the Expansion of Generic Top-Level Domain Names 16 June 2010 21 July 2010
Joint SO/AC Working Group on New gTLD Applicant Support Snapshot 16 June 2010 21 July 2010
New gTLD Program - Draft Applicant Guidebook, Version 4 and Explanatory Memoranda 31 May 2010 21 July 2010
New gTLD Program Budget 31 May 2010 21 July 2010
Transparency and Accountability Wiki Project - ICANN Board Resolutions - Draft - 2009 21 June 2010 26 July 2010
Initial Report on Proposals for Improvements to the RAA 28 May 2010 9 July 2010 Extended to 30 July 2010
Meetings for the Next Decade, Stage One 21 May 2010 5 July 2010; 19 July 2010 Extended to 30 July 2010
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Initial Report 5 July 2010 25 July 2010 Extended to 8 August 2010
Proposed Bylaws Amendment to Add Voting Director from the At-Large Community to the ICANN Board of Directors 1 July 2010 31 July 2010 Extended to 15 August 2010
ccNSO Review – External Reviewers' Final Report 15 June 2010 30 July 2010 Extended to 15 September 2010
The New GNSO Policy Development Process - the PDP-WT Initial Report 31 May 2010 15 July 2010 Extended to 31 August Extended to 30 September 2010

 

June
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
RSSAC Review – Draft Working Group Report 27 April 2010 5 June 2010
Draft FY11 Operating Plan and Budget 17 May 2010 25 June 2010

 

May
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Draft FY11 Community Travel Support Guidelines 8 April 2010 7 May 2010
Report of Possible Process Options for Further Consideration of the ICM Application for the .XXX sTLD 26 March 2010 10 May 2010
GNSO Communications and Coordination Work Team (CCT) Final Consolidated Recommendations 23 April 2010 16 May 2010
New GNSO Council Work Prioritization Process Recommendations 23 April 2010 16 May 2010
Recommendation on Reconsideration Request 10-1 19 April 2010 19 May 2010

 

April
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Benchmarking of Registry Operations 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
IDN 3 Character 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
IDN Variants 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (PPDRP) 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
Process for gTLD Registry Agreement Amendment 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
Proposed Framework for the Fiscal Year 2011 Operating Plan and Budget 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
Registry Restrictions Dispute Resolution Procedure (RRDRP) 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
TM Clearinghouse 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) 15 February 2010 1 April 2010
Chairs Draft Interim Paper for Policy on Introduction of IDN ccTLDs 2 March 2010 2 April 2010
.PRO Renewal Registry Agreement 9 March 2010 7 April 2010
High Security Top-Level Domain (HSTLD) - Draft Program Development Snapshot 22 February 2010 8 April 2010
Zone File Access Concept Paper 22 February 2010 8 April 2010
Draft Report on WHOIS Accuracy 15 February 2010 15 April 2010
Proposed Implementation Plan for Synchronized IDN ccTLDs 22 March 2010 13 April 2010 Extended to 17 Apr 2010
GNSO Policy Development Process on Vertical Integration Between Registries and Registrars 29 March 2010 18 April 2010

 

March
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Call for Community Comment on the Proposed Process for the 2010 Selection of an ICANN At-Large Board Member 5 February 2010 6 March 2010
One & Two-Character .INFO Domains 18 February 2010 20 March 2010
Working Group Guidelines 5 February 2010 22 March 2010
Registration Abuse Policies Initial Report 12 February 2010 28 March 2010
Global DNS-CERT Business Case 12 February 2010 29 March 2010 Extended to 14 April 2010
Proposed Strategic Initiatives for Improved DNS Security, Stability and Resiliency (SSR) 12 February 2010 29 March 2010 Extended to 14 April 2010

 

February
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
New Consumers Constituency Petition and Charter 22 January 2010 13 February 2010
Amendment of the GNSO Operating Procedures on the 2010 Selection Process for ICANN Board Seat 13 28 January 2010 18 February 2010

 

January
Public Comment Open Date Close Date
Final Report on Three-Character Requirement and Variant Management 3 December 2009 8 January 2010
One & Two-Character .CAT Domains 18 December 2009 17 January 2010
2010-2013 Strategic Plan 1 December 2009 21 January 2010
Special Trademarks Issues Report 17 December 2009 26 January 2010
New gTLD Program – Draft Expressions of Interest/Pre-Registrations Model 18 December 2009 27 January 2010
Discussion Draft: Affirmation Reviews 26 December 2009 31 January 2010
Extended to 10 February 2010
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."