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2022 Board Meetings

19 May 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Governance Committee
18 May 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee (BAMC)
17 May 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Organizational Effectiveness Committee
12 May 2022 – Agenda
Special Meeting of the ICANN Board		 Approved Resolutions
2 May 2022
Meeting of the Board Audit Committee 		Minutes
1 May 2022 – Agenda
Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board

Approved Resolutions

Preliminary Report
14 April 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Organizational Effectiveness Committee
14 April 2022
FY22 Board Operational Priorities | Community – ICANN Board Webinar

Time: 20:00 – 20:30 (UTC)

RECORDING
12 April 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee		  
7 April 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Governance Committee
24 March 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Finance Committee
10 March 2022 – Agenda
Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board

Approved Resolutions

Minutes

Board Briefing Materials:
Board Papers and Reference Materials

Guidelines for the Posting of Board Briefing Materials are available at: https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/briefing-materials-guidelines-2019-12-20-en.
6 March 2022
Special Meeting of the ICANN Board

Approved Resolutions

Minutes

Board Briefing Materials:
Board Papers and Reference Materials

Guidelines for the Posting of Board Briefing Materials are available at: https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/briefing-materials-guidelines-2019-12-20-en.
2 March 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Audit Committee
24 February 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee		 Minutes
24 February 2022 – Agenda
Special Meeting of the ICANN Board

Approved Resolutions

Minutes

Board Briefing Materials:
Board Papers and Reference Materials

Guidelines for the Posting of Board Briefing Materials are available at: https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/briefing-materials-guidelines-2019-12-20-en.
22 February 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Strategic Planning Committee		  
17 February 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Risk Committee		 Minutes
16 February 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Organizational Effectiveness Committee		 Minutes
15 February 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Governance Committee
25 January 2022
Meeting of the Board Technical Committee		 Minutes
20 January 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Finance Committee		 Minutes
20 January 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Organizational Effectiveness Committee		 Minutes
16 January 2022 – Agenda
Special Meeting of the ICANN Board

Approved Resolutions

Minutes

Board Briefing Materials:
Board Papers and Reference Materials

Guidelines for the Posting of Board Briefing Materials are available at: https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/briefing-materials-guidelines-2019-12-20-en.
11 January 2022 – Agenda
Meeting of the Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee		 Minutes

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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."