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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
17 January 2022 Letter from Ted Hardie to Maarten Botterman [Published 20 January 2022] Chair | Root Server System Governance Working Group Root Server System Governance Working Group (RSS GWG)

2 Dec 2021 Letter from Maarten Botterman to Ted Hardie [Published 2 December 2021]

18 Nov 2021 Letter from Maarten Botterman to Ted Hardie [Published 18 November 2021]

15 Jun 2021 Letter from Ted Hardie to Maarten Botterman [Published 18 June 2021]

10 Jun 2021 Letter from Maarten Botterman to Ted Hardie [Published 10 June 2021]
6 January 2022 Letter from Maarten Botterman to Alejandra Reynoso [Published 6 January 2022] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Reviewing IDN tables for the IDN ccTLDs for Security and Stability of IDN Implementation  

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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."