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ICANN Arrives in London for 50th Public Meeting

ICANN is in London from 22 - 26 June for our 50th Public MeetingICANN is in London from 22 – 26 June for our 50th Public Meeting.

On this page, you will find some of latest information from the Meeting.

For additional information visit the ICANN 50 London meeting website.


ICANN 50 Schedule

Full Schedule
Daily Schedule

London 50 Meeting Guide

ICANN 50 Meeting Guide [PDF, 4.3 MB]


Videos

ICANN Board Chair & CEO on London50
At the conclusion of ICANN's 50th public meeting in London, Board Chairman Stephen Crocker and President and CEO Fadi Chehadé reflect on its accomplishments and importance.

 

ICANN 50: Gala Night
ICANN 50 attendees come together for Gala Night at the Old Billingsgate Market in London.

 

ICANN 50: High Level Government Meeting
The UK Government hosts the High Level Government Meeting during ICANN 50 in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: ICANN signs agreements with Qatar and Egypt
ICANN signs agreements with Qatar and Egypt promoting the DNS Industry during ICANN's 50th public meeting in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Fadi Chehadé
ICANN CEO and President Fadi Chehadé addresses the opening ceremony at ICANN 50 in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Dr. Stephen Crocker
Board Chairman Stephen Crocker officially opens ICANN's 50th public meeting in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Comms & Creative Industries, UK
Minister Ed Vaizey welcomes more than 3000 registered participants to ICANN's 50th public meeting in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Baroness Rennie Fritchie, Nominet
Baroness Rennie Fritchie, Chair of Nominet, addresses the opening ceremony at ICANN 50 in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Multistakeholder Ethos Award
The first Multistakeholder Ethos Award is presented to community member Avri Doria.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Imad Hoballah, Lebanon Internet Center (LINC)
Imad Hoballah announces the creation of the Lebanon Internet Center at ICANN 50 in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Lu Wei, Minister of Cyberspace Affairs Administration of China
China's Minister for Cyberspace Affairs Administration addresses the opening ceremony at ICANN's 50th public meeting in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Rt. Honorable Carwyn Jones, First Minister of Wales
The First Minister of Wales addresses the opening ceremony at ICANN 50 in London.

 

ICANN 50 in London: Opening Ceremony Welsh Band
Welsh Choir "Only Men Aloud" surprises the audience of the Welcome Ceremony and President's Opening Session of ICANN's 50th public meeting in London.

 

SSAC Report to GAC on IANA Stewardship Transition & Strengthening ICANN Accountability
At ICANN's 50th meeting in London, Security and Stability Advisory Committee Chairman Patrik Fälström briefed the Governmental Advisory Committee on the process of transitioning the United States' stewardship of the IANA Functions and how to strengthen ICANN's accountability.

 


Audio


Blogs

ICANN 50: London – Global Domains Division (GDD) Sessions by Akram Atallah [17 June 2014]

Awe and Gratitude by Fadi Chehadé [16 June 2014]


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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."