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This page provides a centralized location to publish letters received by ICANN from external sources and track outgoing letters. As part of our commitment to transparency, ICANN publishes applicable written communication to this public Correspondence page. Additional correspondence pages:

A workflow document and handbook were created to provide more transparency into the Correspondence Process, as part of the Process Documentation Initiative in 2017,

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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
30 Jan 2024 Tripti Sinha to Alejandra Reynoso [Published 2 Feb 2024] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Community Consultation on Public Interest Commitments (PICs)/Registry Voluntary Commitments (RVCs)

9 Jan 2024: Alejandra Reynoso to Tripti Sinha

7 Dec 2023: Tripti Sinha to Alejandra Reynoso

30 Jan 2024 Sally Costerton to Hadia Elminiawi [Published 1 Feb 2024] Sr. Advisor to President and SVP, Global Stakeholder Engagement & Interim President and CEO | ICANN Internet Resource Management and Governance in Africa

Hadia Elminiawi to Sally Costeron and the ICANN Board

22 Jan 2024 Tripti Sinha to Jonathan Zuck and Greg DiBiase [Published 23 Jan 2024] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Closed Generic gTLDs

1 Dec 2023: Mary Wong to Tripti Sinha, Nicolas Caballero, Gregory DiBiase, Jonathan Zuck

21 Oct 2023: Sebastien Ducos to Tripti Sinha

13 Oct 2023: Nico Caballero and Jonathan Zuck to Tripti Sinha

9 Jan 2024 Alejandra Reynoso to Tripti Sinha [Published 17 Jan 2024] Chair | ccNSO Council Community Consultation on Public Interest Commitments (PICs)/Registry Voluntary Commitments (RVCs)

30 Jan 2024: Tripti Sinha to Alejandra Reynoso

7 Dec 2023: Tripti Sinha to Alejandra Reynoso

9 Jan 2024 Gregory DiBiase to Tripti Sinha [Published 10 Jan 2024] Chair | GNSO Council Intellectual Property Constituency's Request for Reconsideration of Board Resolutions 2023.10.26.11 and 2023.10.26.12  
5 Jan 2024 Giovanni Seppia to Gregory DiBiase [Published 9 Jan 2024] Vice-President, Implementation Operations | ICANN Retirement of Non-Policy Recommendations 4 Dec 2023: Gregory DiBiase to Giovanni Seppia
2 Jan 2024 Tripti Sinha to Matt Thomas, Suzanne Woolf, Ram Mohan, and Rod Rasmussen [Published 3 Jan 2024] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP) Study 2

7 Dec 2023: Suzanne Woolf, Matt Thomas, Rod Rasmussen, and Ram Mohan to Tripti Sinha

21 Nov 2023: Tripti Sinha to Suzanne Woolf and Matt Thomas

2 Jan 2024 Sally Costerton to Jeff Neuman [Published 2 Jan 2024] Sr. Advisor to President and SVP, Global Stakeholder Engagement & Interim President and CEO | ICANN Response to Open Letter to ICANN

2 Jan 2024: Jeff Neuman to Sally Costerton

26 Dec 2023: Sally Costerton to Jeff Neuman

12 Dec 2023: Jeff Neuman to Tripti Sinha

8 Nov 2023: Jeff Neuman to Tripti Sinha, Sally Costerton, and Danko Jevtovic

3 Nov 2023: Jeff Neuman to Tripti Sinha, Sally Costerton, and Danko Jevtovic

2 Jan 2024 Jeff Neuman to Sally Costerton [Published 2 Jan 2024] CEO | JJN Solutions Response to Open Letter to ICANN

2 Jan 2024: Sally Costerton to Jeff Neuman

26 Dec 2023: Sally Costerton to Jeff Neuman

12 Dec 2023: Jeff Neuman to Tripti Sinha

8 Nov 2023: Jeff Neuman to Tripti Sinha, Sally Costerton, and Danko Jevtovic

3 Nov 2023: Jeff Neuman to Tripti Sinha, Sally Costerton, and Danko Jevtovic

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."