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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
30 December 2008 Erik Wilbers to John Jeffrey World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center Paperless UDRP
23 December 2008 Under-Secretary General Sha Zukang to Dr. Paul Twomey United Nations Enhanced Cooperation
18 December 2008 Meredith Baker to Peter Dengate Thrush US Department of Commerce New gTLD Process
5 December 2008 Jordi Iparraguirre to Patrick Jones Fundació puntCAT Release of Montserrat.cat to the Abadia de Montserrat
4 December 2008 Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy to Paul Twomey Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy New gTLDs
4 December 2008 Gregory Paulger to Paul Twomey European Commission New gTLDS
23 November 2008 Tim Switzer to Paul Twomey NeuStar .BIZ Notice of Fee Increase
12 November 2008 Jonathan Spencer to Paul Twomey VeriSign Assignment of .NAME Registry Agreement
1 November 2008 Andrew Romanov to Paul Twomey .ru ccTLD Coordination Center Letters in support of .ru ccTLD CC being the designated ccTLD manager for .rf (.РФ)
1 November 2008 Andrey Romanov to Paul Twomey Coordination Center for TLD RU Letter of interest for Cyrillic .rf (.РФ) fast-track application
28 October 2008 Paul Twomey to Janis Karklins ICANN GAC request for translation and travel assistance
24 October 2008 Paul Twomey to National Governments and cc Operators ICANN New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook available for public comment
21 October 2008 GNSO Registries Constituency to Peter Dengate Thrush GNSO Registries Constituency Registry Services Evaluation Process
8 October 2008 Indian Technology Mediation and Arbitration Center to ICANN Indian Technology Mediation and Arbitration Center UDRP Provider Proposal
2 October 2008 Paul Twomey to National Governments ICANN The introduction of IDNs at the lop level of the domain name system
2 October 2008 Paul Twomey to National Governments ICANN New gTLDs and the treatment of geographic names Letter
30 September 2008 Stacy Burnette to April Hu ICANN Notice of Breach of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
30 September 2008 Stacy Burnette to Jan Legenhausen ICANN Notice of Breach of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
9 September 2008 Meredith Baker to Paul Twomey U.S. Department of Commerce Implementing DNSSEC Protocol in the Root Zone
2 September 2008 Paul Twomey to Meredith Baker ICANN Implementing DNSSEC Protocol in the Root Zone
1 September 2008 Arab Center for Dispute Domain Name Administrative Procedure to ICANN Arab Center for Dispute Domain Name Administrative Procedure UDRP Provider Proposal
29 August 2008 Paul Twomey to Alexa Raad and Milton Mueller ICANN IDN Implementation
28 August 2008 Paul Wilson to Peter Dengate Thrush APNIC APNIC Community Request for ICANN to Sign DNS Root
16 August 2008 Paul Twomey to Meredith Baker ICANN DNSSEC
13 August 2008 Paul Twomey to Dr. Plamen Vatchkov ICANN IDN ccTLD
13 August 2008 Paul Twomey to George Anastasopoulos ICANN IDN ccTLDs
13 August 2008 Haiyan Qian to Paul Twomey United Nations Enhanced cooperation public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
8 August 2008 Paul Twomey to Janis Karklins ICANN Implementation of new gTLDs
6 August 2008 Paul Twomey to Sha Zukang ICANN Enhanced cooperation public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
5 August 2008 Paul Twomey to H. E. Oleg Shchegolev ICANN Russian Federation's Interest in Internationalized Domain Names
5 August 2008 Paul Twomey to H.E. Oleg Shchegolev (Русский) ICANN Russian Federation's Interest in Internationalized Domain Names
29 July 2008 Alexa Raad and Milton Mueller to Paul Twomey PIR and ICANN NCUC IDN implementation
28 July 2008 George Anastasopoulos to Paul Twomey Secretary General for Communications, Hellenic Republic IDN ccTLDs
10 July 2008 Janis Karklins to Paul Twomey Chairman, GAC Administrative assistance for the GAC
8 July 2008 Guido Bertucci to Paul Twomey United Nations Enhanced cooperation public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
1 July 2008 Angel Gurría to Paul Twomey Secretary General, OECD Future of the Internet Economy
1 July 2008 Francis Gurry to Paul Twomey WIPO Registrar trends related to UDRP
26 June 2008 Paul Twomey to Sha Zukang ICANN Enhanced cooperation on public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
20 June 2008 Paul Twomey to Jane Collins ICANN GNSO Improvements
19 June 2008 Igor O. Shchegolev to Paul Twomey Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation IDN ccTLD
18 June 2008 Dr. Plamen Vatchkov to Paul Twomey Chairman, State Agency for Information Technology and Communications, Republic of Bulgaria IDN ccTLD
12 June 2008 Sha Zukang to Paul Twomey United Nations Enhanced cooperation on public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
11 June 2008 Paul Twomey to Francis Gurry ICANN Registrar trends related to UDRP
27 May 2008 Jane Collins to Paul Twomey Marques GNSO Improvements
23 May 2008 Peter Dengate Thrush to Janis Karklins ICANN GAC recommendations for WHOIS studies
19 May 2008 Paul Twomey to Alexa A.S. Raad ICANN Notice of Fee Increase
19 May 2008 Paul Twomey to Roland LaPlante ICANN Notice of Fee Increase
19 May 2008 Paul Twomey to Janis Karklins ICANN Implementation of the Policy for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law
17 May 2008 Paul Twomey to Tim Switzer 104 ICANN Notice not to Increase Fee
15 May 2008 Stacy Burnette to Daniel Sundin ICANN Notice of Breach of ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement
13 May 2008 Tim Switzer to Paul Twomey NeuStar Notice not to Increase Fee
9 May 2008 Paul Twomey to Alexei Sozonov ICANN The IDN string from Russia to use in its ccTLD
1 May 2008 Alexa A.S. Raad to Paul Twomey Public Interest Registry (PIR) Notice of Fee Increase
29 April 2008 Roland LaPlante to Paul Twomey Afilias Notice of Fee Increase
28 April 2008 Alexei Sozonov to Paul Twomey Russian Language Name Internet Consortium The IDN string from Russia to use in its ccTLD
25 April 2008 Kurt Pritz to Trey Harvin ICANN Authorization to Deploy IDNs
24 April 2008 Paul Twomey to Sha Zukang ICANN Annual performance report as follow-up to the Tunis Agenda on Information Society
24 April 2008 Paul Twomey to Maud de Boer-Buquicchio ICANN International law and human rights
16 April 2008 Janis Karklins to Peter Dengate Thrush GAC GAC recommendations for WHOIS studies
16 April 2008 Francis Gurry to Paul Twomey WIPO Registrar trends related to UDRP
27 March 2008 Brian Davis to Paul Twomey VeriSign Notice of Fee Change
12 March 2008 Sha Zukang to Paul Twomey United Nations Annual performance report as follow-up to the Tunis Agenda on Information Society
20 February 2008 Trey Harvin to Paul Twomey .MOBI sTLD IDN Roll-out
29 January 2008 Leo Vegoda to Paul Wilson and David Conrad ICANN RIR distribution of "various registries" address space
28 January 2008 Paul Wilson to David Conrad and Leo Vegoda NRO EC Chair RIR distribution of "various registries" address space
21 January 2008 Chair, ccNSO to ICANN Board of Directors ccNSO GNSO Council's recent message regarding Board Resolution 07.89
21 January 2008 Maud de Boer-Buquicchio to Paul Twomey Council of Europe International law and human rights
15 January 2008 Paul Twomey to Janis Karklins ICANN Important Recent Initiatives at ICANN
9 January 2008 Peter Dengate Thrush to Suzanne R. Sene ICANN Midterm Review of the Joint Project Agreement
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."