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Public Comment – 2012 Archive

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January
Title Open Date Close Date
New gTLD Applicant Support Program: Financial Assistance 20 December 2011 10 January 2012 [23:59]
Preliminary GNSO Issue Report on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement Amendments 12 December 2011 13 January 2012 [23:59]
IDN Variant Issues Project: Draft Integrated Issues Report 23 December 2011 30 January 2012 [23:59]
February
Title Open Date Close Date
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy Development Process - Recommendation 9, Part 2 Concerning a New Provision to Lock and Unlock Domain Names 23 January 2012 13 February 2012 [23:59]
March
Title Open Date Close Date
Further Bylaw Changes Following Adoption of Revised Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Policy Development Process (PDP) 10 February 2012 2 March 2012 [23:59]
.CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes 20 January 2012 3 March 2012 [23:59]
WHOIS Policy Review Team Draft Report 5 December 2011 18 March 2012 [23:59]
Defensive Applications for New gTLDs 6 February 2012 20 March 2012 [23:59]
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy Development Process – Recommendation 8 Concerning Standardizing and Clarifying WHOIS Status Messages 21 February 2012 25 March 2012 [23:59]
Framework for the FY 13 Budget 17 January 2012 26 March 2012 [23:59]
April
Title Open Date Close Date
Global Policy Proposal Recovered IPv4 Address Space 14 March 2012 4 April 2012 [23:59]
Draft Roadmap to Implement SAC 051 18 February 2012 8 April 2012 [23:59]
Initial Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs 6 January 2012 13 April 2012 [23:59]
Proposal to Protect International Red Cross and International Olympic Committee Names at the Top Level in New gTLDs 2 March 2012 14 April 2012 [23:59]
Interim Report on Support Significantly Interested Parties for ccTLD Delegation or Redelegation Requests 3 February 2012 20 April 2012 [23:59]
ICANN Board Conflicts of Interest Review - Revised Conflicts of Interest Policy and Related Governance Documents 11 March 2012 24 April 2012 [23:59]
IDN Variant Issues Project – Proposed Project Plan for Next Steps 20 February 2012 8 April 2012 Extended to 29 April 2012 [23:59]
Review of the ASO 16 March 2012 30 April 2012 [23:59]
May
Title Open Date Close Date
Draft Advice Letter on Consumer Trust, Consumer Choice, and Competition 23 February 2012 24 April 2012 Extended to 8 May 2012 [23:59]
Fake Renewal Notices Report 21 March 2012 11 May 2012 [23:59]
Security, Stability & Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (SSR RT) - Draft Report 15 March 2012 7 May 2012 [23:59] Extended to 14 May 2012 [23:59]
.com Registry Agreement Renewal 27 March 2012 17 May 2012 [23:59]
Second Annual IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Review 9 April 2012 21 May 2012 [23:59]
.post Agreement Amendment 9 April 2012 30 May 2012 [23:59]
June
Title Open Date Close Date
ICANN Draft FY13 Operating Plan and Budget 1 May 2012 15 June 2012 [23:59]
WHOIS Technical Requirements Survey - Draft 30 May 2012 20 June 2012 [23:59]
Proposed Revised Process for Handling Requests for Removal of Cross-Ownership Restrictions on Operators of Existing gTLDs 16 May 2012 28 June 2012 [23:59]
July
Title Open Date Close Date
ICANN's FY 13 Security, Stability and Resiliency Framework 1 June 2012 2 July 2012 [23:59]
WHOIS Policy Review Team Final Report 11 May 2012 11 July 2012 [23:59]
Public Comment Solicitation for FY13 Community Travel Support Guidelines 1 June 2012 13 July 2012 [23:59]
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part C Policy Development Process Initial Report 4 June 2012 25 July 2012 [23:59]
Preliminary GNSO Issue Report on the Protection of International Organization Names in New gTLDS 4 June 2012 16 July 2012 [23:59] Extended to 26 July 2012 [23:59]
ICANN Board Conflicts of Interest Review - Independent Expert Report 5 June 2012 28 July 2012 [23:59]
Request for Community Input on Formulation of 2013-2016 Strategic Plan 4 June 2012 30 July 2012 [23:59]
Proposed Modifications to GNSO Operating Procedures 9 July 2012 30 July 2012 [23:59]
Security, Stability & Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (SSR RT) Final Report 21 June 2012 30 July 2012 [23:59]
August
Title Open Date Close Date
DRAFT - ICANN Language Services Policy and Procedures 18 May 2012 1 August 2012 [23:59]
Interisle Consulting Group's WHOIS Proxy/Privacy Reveal & Relay Feasibility Survey 4 June 2012 16 July 2012 [23:59]; Extended to 31 July 2012 [23:59]; Extended to 22 August 2012 [23:59]
.name Registry Agreement Renewal 3 July 2012 23 August 2012 [23:59]
September
Title Open Date Close Date
Preliminary Issue Report on Uniformity of Contracts to Address Registration Abuse 25 July 2012 5 September 2012 [23:59]
Draft Statement of ICANN's Role and Remit in Security, Stability and Resiliency of the Internet's Unique Identifier Systems 17 May 2012 16 July 2012; Extended to 31 August 2012; Extended to 11 September 2012 [23:59]
Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings 25 July 2012 5 September 2012 [23:59]; Extended to 24 September 2012 [23:59]
October
Title Open Date Close Date
IDN Variant TLD Program – Procedure to Develop and Maintain the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone in Respect of IDNA Labels 24 September 2012 19 October 2012 [23:59]
DSSA Working Group Phase 1 Report 14 August 2012 21 October 2012 [23:59]
November
Title Open Date Close Date
SSAC Report on Dotless Domains 24 August 2012 14 October 2012 [23:59]; Extended to 5 November 2012 [23:59]
Trademark Clearinghouse Documents 15 October 2012 [23:59] 7 November 2012 [23:59]
Use of a Drawing for Prioritizing New gTLD Applications 10 October 2012 9 November 2012 [23:59]
Draft Recommendations Overall Policy for the Selection of IDN ccTLD Strings 29 August 2012 9 November 2012 [23:59]
Protection of International Olympic Committee (IOC) / Red Cross Names (RCRC) Drafting Team – Recommendations 28 September 2012 9 November 2012 [23:59]
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part C Policy Development Process (PDP) Recommendations for Board Consideration 22 October 2012 12 November 2012 [23:59]
Proposed Bylaws Amendments to Align Board Terms 18 September 2012 13 November 2012 [23:59]
Community Input Draft 2013-2016 Strategic Plan 24 September 2012 13 November 2012 [23:59]
Community Input and Advice Process 24 September 2012 14 November 2012 [23:59]
Implementing the Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA 4 October 2012 15 November 2012 [23:59]
ICANN Consolidated Meetings Strategy Proposal 2 October 2012 16 November 2012 [23:59]
Registry Stakeholder Group Charter Revisions (Sep 2012) 11 October 2012 27 November 2012 [23:59]
December
Title Open Date Close Date
Proposed Modification of GNSO PDP Manual to Address the Suspension of a PDP 22 October 2012 3 December 2012 [23:59]
Expired Registration Recovery Policy 11 October 2012 30 November 2012 Extended to 7 December 2012 [23:59]
Expert Recommended Improvements to ICANN's Accountability Structures 26 October 2012 8 December 2012 [23:59]
IDN Variant TLD Program – Interim Report Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs 23 October 2012 13 December 2012 [23:59]
Preliminary Issue Report on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part D 14 November 2012 14 December 2012 [23:59]
Application for New GNSO Constituency Candidacy-"Public Internet Access/Cybercafe Ecosystem" 10 October 2012 17 December 2012 [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."