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2018 Board Meetings

15 March 2018 – Agenda
21:00 – 22:00 UTC / 17:00 – 18:00 AST
Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board

Adopted Resolutions

Preliminary Report
9 March 2018 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee		 Minutes
9 March 2018 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Governance Committee		  
9 & 11 March 2018
Open Sessions of Board Workshop, San Juan (Puerto Rico)

Date: 9 March

Time (UTC): 20:15 – 21:15

Session:
Board Technical Committee

Recordings: https://participate.icann.org/p1h65vjws4f/

Date: 11 March

Time (UTC): 17:45 – 18:45

Session:
Revised IDN Implementation Guidelines focused on Second Level Domains

The sessions will be in English only. The format for each will be a listen-only session via Adobe Connect.
Adobe Connect Link: https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/
Participant Code: 5542211258

Additional access numbers: https://www.myrcplus.com/cnums.asp?bwebid=8369444&ppc=5542211258&num=1-605-475-5606

For more information about the Puerto Rico workshop and other upcoming ICANN Board meetings, please go to https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/2018-board-meetings.
08 February 2018
Secretary's Notices of Approval of FY19 IANA Operating Plan and Budget

Secretary's Notice on FY19 IANA Operating Plan and Budget [PDF, 1.1 MB]
4 February 2018 – Agenda
Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board

Adopted Resolutions

Minutes

Board Briefing Materials:
Board Papers [PDF, 479 KB]
Reference Materials [PDF, 1.94 MB]

Guidelines for the Posting of Board Briefing Materials are available at: https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/briefing-materials-guidelines-2011-03-21-en
3-4 February 2018
Open Sessions of Board Workshop, Los Angeles

Date: 3 February

Time (UTC): 21:30 – 22:30

Session:
Community work on geo names as top-level domains
Recordings: https://participate.icann.org/p82nzk3w82q/
Materials:

Date: 3 February

Time (UTC): 23:45 – 01:15(+1)

Session:
FY19 Draft Budget Review
Recordings: https://participate.icann.org/p88c5uuv8rm/
Materials: FY19 Draft Budget Review [PDF, 897 KB]

Date: 4 February

Time (UTC): 17:00 – 18:00

Session:
Board FY18 Priorities
Recordings: https://participate.icann.org/p95nov252x2/
Materials: Board FY18 Priorities [PDF, 72 KB]

Date: 4 February

Time (UTC): 21:15 – 22:30

Session:
Public Board Meeting
Recordings: https://participate.icann.org/p64u30cso2y/
Materials: https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2018-02-04-en
2 February 2018 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Governance Committee		 Minutes
2 February 2018 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee		 Minutes
2 February 2018
Meeting of the Board Organizational Effectiveness Committee		 Minutes
2 February 2018
Meeting of the Board Finance Committee		  
24 January 2018
Board Technical Committee
Open Session

Minutes

22.00 UTC

Update from CTO: General update from CTO, on status of research, attacks and other relevant developments in the world of DNS operations.

Recordings: https://participate.icann.org/p37wugprybj/
17 January 2018
Meeting of the Board Finance Committee		 Minutes
17 January 2018 – Agenda
Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee (BAMC)		 Minutes
12 January 2018
Meeting of the Board Finance Committee		 Minutes

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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."