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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
19 October 2001 Donald L. Evans to Vint Cerf U.S. Department of Commerce
27 August 2001 Louis Touton to Christine A. Russo VeriSign Transfers of registrar sponsorship of registrations
27 July 2001 Message from Stuart Lynn to Michael Palage DNSO Registrars Constituency Transfers of registrar sponsorship of registrations
26 July 2001 Rita A. Rodin to Louis Touton Global Name Registry
26 July 2001 Roger Cochetti to Louis Touton VeriSign Transfers of registrar sponsorship of registrations
25 July 2001 Ross Wm. Rader to Stuart Lynn Tucows Inc. Transfers of registrar sponsorship of registrations
23 July 2001 Jeffrey A. LeVee to Daniel Scott Schecter New.net
20 July 2001 William Walsh to Stuart Lynn William X. Walsh and Others Transfers of registrar sponsorship of registrations
16 July 2001 Michael Palage to Stuart Lynn DNSO Registrars Constituency Transfers of registrar sponsorship of registrations
16 July 2001 Daniel Scott Schecter to ICANN Board New.net
16 July 2001 Roger Cochetti to Stuart Lynn VeriSign Transfers of registrar sponsorship of registrations
25 May 2001 Donald L. Evans to Vint Cerf U.S. Department of Commerce
21 May 2001 Louis Touton to Bank for International Settlements Bank for International Settlements
1 May 2001 Louis Touton to Howard Berman U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
24 April 2001 Aldon Abbott to Stuart Lynn U.S. Department of Commerce schedule for review of proposed revisions to VeriSign agreements
16 April 2001 Stuart Lynn to Karen Rose U.S. Department of Commerce Proposed Revisions to VeriSign Agreements
1 April 2001 Response from Stratton Sclavos to Stuart Lynn VeriSign Proposed revisions to ICANN/VeriSign Agreements
1 April 2001 Reply from Stuart Lynn to Stratton Sclavos VeriSign Proposed revisions to ICANN/VeriSign Agreements
30 March 2001 Michael A. Jacobs to ICANN Verio Inc. On Proposed Unsponsored TLD and Revised VeriSign Registry Agreements
22 March 2001 Bank for International Settlements to Michael M. Roberts Bank for International Settlements
22 March 2001 Testimony of Louis Touton to Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
14 February 2001 Testimony of Michael Roberts to Subcommittee on Communications U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
8 February 2001 Testimony of Vint Cerf to Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
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."