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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
9 December 2002 At-Large Organizing Committee to ICANN Board At-Large Organizing Committee Candidates for the Interim At-Large Advisory Committee
26 November 2002 Nancy J. Victory to M. Stuart Lynn U.S. Department of Commerce approval of PIR as successor .org operator
15 November 2002 Cassidy Sehgal to Louis Touton RegistryPro, Inc. RegistryPro proposal to amend .pro Registry Agreement
15 November 2002 Timothy Gelman to Louis Touton RegistryPro, Inc. RegistryPro proposal to amend .pro Registry Agreement
15 November 2002 .pro Advisory Board to Louis Touton RegistryPro, Inc. RegistryPro proposal to amend .pro Registry Agreement
9 November 2002 J. Beckwith Burr to Louis Touton Global Name Registry GNR proposal to amend .name Registry Agreement
30 October 2002 Keven E. Brannon to Stuart Lynn Dotster, Inc.
24 October 2002 Roger Cochetti to Louis Touton GNSO gTLD Registries Constituency GNR proposal to amend .name Registry Agreement
24 October 2002 Steven J. Metalitz to Vint Cerf GNSO Intellectual Property Interests Constituency GNR proposal to amend .name Registry Agreement
21 October 2002 Ken Stubbs to Louis Touton DNSO Registrars Constituency GNR proposal to amend .name Registry Agreement
16 October 2002 Philip L. Sbarbaro to Joe Sims VeriSign VGRS Wait-Listing Service
20 September 2002 Vint Cerf to Names Council DNSO Names Council IANA
17 September 2002 W.G. Champion Mitchell to Louis Touton VeriSign NSI Registrar breach of Whois-accuracy obligations
12 September 2002 Louis Touton to W.G. Champion Mitchell VeriSign NSI Registrar breach of Whois-accuracy obligations
11 September 2002 W.G. Champion Mitchell to Louis Touton VeriSign NSI Registrar breach of Whois-accuracy obligations
9 September 2002 Keven E. Brannon to Stuart Lynn Dotster
3 September 2002 Louis Touton to Bruce Beckwith VeriSign NSI Registrar breach of Whois-accuracy obligations
25 July 2002 Nancy J. Victory to M. Stuart Lynn U.S. Department of Commerce VGRS annual neutrality audit
19 July 2002 M. Stuart Lynn to Nancy J. Victory U.S. Department of Commerce ICANN Reform
11 July 2002 Nancy J. Victory to M. Stuart Lynn U.S. Department of Commerce ICANN Reform
10 July 2002 Nancy J. Victory to M. Stuart Lynn U.S. Department of Commerce USDOC consideration of MOU renewal
5 July 2002 M. Stuart Lynn to Dr. Paul Twomey Governmental Advisory Committee ICANN Evolution and Reform
12 June 2002 M. Stuart Lynn to Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation The Debate Over ICANN, Testimony
14 March 2002 Kofi Annan to ICANN United Nations Advancements of information and communication technologies
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."