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January
Title Open Date Close Date
ccNSO Review – Draft Working Group Report 15 November 2010 15 January 2011
Interim Paper Inclusion of IDN ccTLDs in the ccNSO 22 November 2010 21 January 2011
Proposed Changes to Enhance ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Evaluation Process 22 November 2010 21 January 2011
Permanent Charter of GNSO's Commercial Stakeholder Group Completed – Public Comment Invited 2 December 2010 23 January 2011
TLG Review – Final Report 10 December 2010 24 January 2011
Draft 2011-2014 Strategic Plan 27 November 2010 10 January 2011
[Extended to 25 January 2011]
Interim Report of Geographic Regions Review Working Group 12 November 2010 30 January 2011
New Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency Petition and Charter 1 December 2010 23 January 2011
[Extended to 30 January 2011]
Interim Report of the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group 15 November 2010 13 January 2011
[Extended to 14 March 2011]
February
Title Open Date Close Date
GNSO Working Group Guidelines 18 January 2011 8 February 2011
Accountability & Transparency Review Team Final Recommendations 31 December 2010 14 February 2011
March
Title Open Date Close Date
Proposed ICANN Meeting Dates 2014 - 2016 21 February 2011 8 March 2011
ccNSO DRDWG Final Report 17 February 2011 15 March 2011
Proposed Changes to Section 5.0 of the GNSO Council Operating Procedures 24 February 2011 26 March 2011
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Working Group Proposed Final Report 21 February 2011 31 March 2011
Proposed Process for Recognition of New GNSO Constituencies 2 February 2011 4 March 2011
[Extended to 3 April 2011]
April
Title Open Date Close Date
Proposed New GNSO Policy Development Process 21 February 2011 1 April 2011
Proposed Framework for the Fiscal Year 2012 (FY12) Operating Plan and Budget 18 February 2011 4 April 2011
Draft Proposal for the Study of Issues Related to the Delegation of IDN Variant TLDs 21 February 2011 6 April 2011
The Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Review Team Set of Issues 21 February 2011 6 April 2011
High Security Zone TLD Final Report 11 March 2011 7 April 2011
Proposed Recommendations for a Global Outreach Program 24 February 2011 10 April 2011
WHOIS Review Team 4 March 2011 17 April 2011
Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Working Group Proposed Final Report 21 February 2011 7 April 2011
[Extended to 22 April 2011]
May
Title Open Date Close Date
Proposed ICANN Bylaw Revisions Regarding the ALAC 8 April 2011 9 May 2011
Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement 11 April 2011 10 May 2011
New gTLD Applicant Guidebook – April 2011 Discussion Draft 15 April 2011 15 May 2011
Proposed .MOBI Contract Amendment "Additional Equitable Allocation Options for .MOBI One and Two-Character Domains" 25 April 2011 25 May 2011
Academia Representation on NomCom 30 April 2011 30 May 2011
June
Title Open Date Close Date
Proposed ICANN Process for Handling Requests for Removal of Cross-Ownership Restrictions for Existing gTLDs 2 May 2011 1 June 2011
Proposed Permanent Charter of GNSO Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group 6 May 2011 5 June 2011
ICANN FY 12 Security, Stability & Resiliency Framework 2 May 2011 1 June 2011
[Extended to 7 June 2011]
Draft FY12 Operating Plan and Budget…Ready for Community Consideration 17 May 2011 17 June 2011
The FY12 Travel Support Guidelines DRAFT 25 May 2011 26 June 2011
July
Title Open Date Close Date
New GNSO Policy Development Process 9 June 2011 9 July 2011 [24:00]
How Do We Raise Global Awareness of New gTLDs? 24 June 2011 15 July 2011 [24:00]
Preliminary Issue Report on the Current State of the UDRP 27 May 2011 15 July 2011 [24:00]
WHOIS Policy Review Team – Discussion Paper 9 June 2011 23 July 2011 [23:59]
Expanding Developing Economies Participation in the New gTLD Program 10 June 2011 29 July 2011 [24:00]
August
Title Open Date Close Date
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part B Policy Development Process (PDP) Recommendations for Board Consideration 8 July 2011 8 August 2011 [11:00]
Proposed Revisions to Chapters 3 and 4 of the GNSO Council Operating Procedures Relating to Proxy Voting 19 July 2011 9 August 2011 [23:59]
Report from Board-GAC Joint Working Group 7 July 2011 6 August 2011 [22:00]
[Extended to 12 August 2011]
Preliminary Issue Report on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part C 25 July 2011 25 August 2011 [23:59]
Proposed IDN Guidelines Revision 27 July 2011 26 August 2011 [23:59]
Request for Community Input on Formulation of 2012-2015 Strategic Plan 29 July 2011 29 August 2011 [23:59]
September
Title Open Date Close Date
Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Recommendations for ICANN Board Consideration 15 August 2011 15 September 2011 [23:59]
Phase II of Public Comments Process Enhancements 31 August 2011 Comments: 30 September 2011 [23:59]
Replies: 15 October 2011 [23:59]
October
Title Open Date Close Date
Revisions to Conflicts of Interest Policy and Bylaws to Allow Board to Consider Compensation for Director Services 2 September 2011 3 October 2011 [06:59]
November
Title Open Date Close Date
Variant Issues Project -- Arabic Case Study Team Issues Report 7 October 2011 14 November 2011 [23:59]
Variant Issues Project -- Chinese Case Study Team Issues Report 3 October 2011 14 November 2011 [23:59]
Variant Issues Project -- Cyrillic Case Study Team Issues Report 6 October 2011 14 November 2011 [23:59]
Variant Issues Project -- Devanagari Case Study Team Issues Report 3 October 2011 14 November 2011 [23:59]
Variant Issues Project -- Greek Case Study Team Issues Report 7 October 2011 14 November 2011 [23:59]
Variant Issues Project -- Latin Case Study Team Issues Report 7 October 2011 14 November 2011 [23:59]
Community Input on Draft 2012-2015 Strategic Plan 3 October 2011 17 November 2011 [23:59]
Draft Final Report of the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group 3 October 2011 17 November 2011 [23:59]
December
Title Open Date Close Date
Framework of Interpretation Working Group – Interim Report 12 October 2011 1 December 2011 [23:59]
RySG Alternative Proposal for Continuity Operations Instrument 17 October 2011 2 December 2011 [23:59]
Revisions to Annex A of the Bylaws to Adopt the New GNSO Policy Development Process 4 November 2011 5 December 2011 [23:59]
IDN ccPDP WG 2 – Draft Final Report 22 October 2011 15 December 2011 [23:59]
Work Continues to Increase Developing Economies Participation in the New gTLD Program 13 October 2011 16 December 2011 [23:59]
.ASIA One and Two Character Allocation Proposal 4 November 2011 16 December 2011 [23:59]
Geographic Regions Review – Draft Final Report 30 September 2011 19 December 2011 [23:59]
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part C Policy Development Process 21 November 2011 22 December 2011 [23:59]
Board Technical Relations Working Group (BTRWG) – Final Report 16 November 2011 30 December 2011 [23:59]
Preliminary Issue Report on ‘Thick’ Whois 21 November 2011 30 December 2011 [23:59]
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B – Recommendation #8 and #9 Part 2 – Staff Proposals 22 November 2011 31 December 2011 [23:59]
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."