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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
27 September 1999 Brian Carpenter Chair, Internet Architecture Board (IAB) Unique DNS Root
23 September 1999 John Patrick to Esther Dyson IBM Corporation Financial Support
4 August 1999 Mike Roberts to Howard Berman U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary ICANN's Mechanisms for Addressing Public Complaints
29 July 1999 Howard Berman to Mike Roberts U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary ICANN's Mechanisms for Addressing Public Complaints
28 July 1999 Testimony of Michael M. Roberts to Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary Internet Domain Names and Intellectual Property Rights
22 July 1999 Testimony of Esther Dyson to Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce The Challenge of Creating a Private Sector, Consensus-Based Organization
19 July 1999 Esther Dyson to Becky Burr U.S. Department of Commerce Progress of Fully Establishing the ICANN Organization
9 July 1999 Mike Roberts to Jim Rutt VeriSign gTLD Constituency Group representation on the DNSO Names Council
8 July 1999 Becky Burr to Esther Dyson and Mike Roberts U.S. Department of Commerce Progress of Fully Establishing the ICANN Organization
8 July 1999 Esther Dyson to Tom Bliley U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Transition to Privatize Management of the Internet's Domain Name System ("DNS")
8 July 1999 Response of ICANN to Tom Bliley U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Transition to Privatize Management of the Internet's Domain Name System ("DNS")
1 July 1999 Jim Rutt to ICANN VeriSign gTLD Constituency Group representation on the DNSO Names Council
22 June 1999 Tom Bliley to ICANN U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Transition to Privatize Management of the Internet's Domain Name System ("DNS")
15 June 1999 Esther Dyson to Ralph Nader Ralph Nader and James Love Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Scope of Internet Governance
11 June 1999 Ralph Nader to Esther Dyson Ralph Nader and James Love Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Scope of Internet Governance
11 June 1999 Don Telage to ICANN VeriSign gTLD Constituency Group representation on the DNSO Names Council
11 June 1999 Mike Roberts to Don Telage VeriSign gTLD Constituency Group representation on the DNSO Names Council
25 February 1999 Scott Bradner to Esther Dyson ISOC, IETF, and IAB Assignment of Protocol Parameters Developed or Maintained by the IETF
25 February 1999 Esther Dyson to Scott Bradner ISOC, IETF, and IAB Assignment of Protocol Parameters Developed or Maintained by the IETF
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."