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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
18 December 2009 Rod Beckstrom to Dr. Polys Michaelides ICANN Comments on the New gTLDs Applicant Guidebook version 3 and the proposed implementation plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
15 December 2009 Members of the former IRT to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom IRT Report from the Special Trademark Issues Work Team
9 December 2009 Carissa Etienne to Rod Beckstrom World Health Organization Protection of International Nonproprietary Names
3 December 2009 Maria Del Rosario Guerra to Rod Beckstrom Minister of Information and Communication Technologies, Republic of Colombia Wildcard in the .CO
3 December 2009 Viviane Reding to Rod Beckstrom The European Commission Affirmation of Commitments
2 December 2009 Chris Disspain to Peter Dengate Thrush ccNSO Council Survey on the views and attitudes of the ccTLD community regarding ICANN's strategic priorities
2 December 2009 Khashayar Mahdavi to Rod Beckstrom telnic .tel Internationalized Domain Names (lDNs)
30 November 2009 Philip S. Corwin to Rod Beckstrom, Peter Dengate Thrush Counsel, Internet Commerce Association (ICA) ICA Request for ICANN Board and Staff Intervention Re: CAC and WIPO Expedited UDRP Variants
30 November 2009 Craig Spiezle to Kurt Pritz, Senior Vice President, Services Executive Director, The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Comments to ICANN on the New gTLD Program
23 November 2009 Zuo Ran to Rod Beckstrom CONAC Seoul Roundtable Discussion
23 November 2009 Rod Beckstrom to Diane Casey-Landry, ABA ICANN Response to Public Comment on Expansion of gTLDs from ABA
21 November 2009 Chris Disspain to Peter Dengate Thrush ccNSO Council Meaningful representations of country and territory names in the gTLD space
20 November 2009 Jean-Louis Missika to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom Mairie de Paris Draft Applicant Guidebook v.3 for gTLDs
20 November 2009 James B. Lake to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom Thomas, LoCicero & Bralow Proposed top-level domain policies
16 November 2009 Viviane Reding to Rod Beckstrom The European Commission Internationalized Domain Names country code Top Level Domain in a fast track
13 November 2009 Patty Evanoff to Rod Beckstrom Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada Proposal to Introduce .BANK gTLD
11 November 2009 Ray Fassett to Craig Schwartz Employ Media LLC .JOBS Fee Amendment Request
9 November 2009 Maria del Rosario Guerra to Rod Beckstrom Minister of Information and Communications Technologies - Republic of Colombia ICANN meeting location
6 November 2009 Expressions of Interest Working Group to ICANN Expressions of Interest Working Group Expressions of Interest Working Group Proposed Outputs
6 November 2009 Expressions of Interest Working Group to ICANN Expressions of Interest Working Group Expressions of Interest Working Group Draft Charter
6 November 2009 Expressions of Interest Working Group to ICANN Expressions of Interest Working Group Expressions of Interest Working Group
3 November 2009 J. Scott Evans to Rod Beckstrom Intellectual Property Constituency Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA)
31 October 2009 Richard Currey to Rod Beckstrom InternetNZ Financial Contribution, Affirmation of Commitments, IANA function, DNSSEC, IDN ccTLDs, Directors Fees
23 October 2009 Ariel Graizer to Rod Beckstrom CABASE Request to Host December 2010 ICANN Meeting
23 October 2009 Dr. Polys Michaelides to Rod Beckstrom Office of the Commissioner, Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation, Republic of Cyprus Draft Applicant Guidebook v.3 for gTLDs and Proposed Final Implementation Plan for IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
22 October 2009 Jonathan Shea to Rod Beckstrom Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
21 October 2009 Christine C. Quinn to Rod Beckstrom The Council of the City of New York .GAY gTLD
20 October 2009 Robin Gross to Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush NCUC Chair Clearing Up Any Misperceptions that NCUC is Opposed to the Creation of Constituencies in the NCSG
16 October 2009 Doug Brent to Hank Johnson ICANN Addendum to Oral Testimony from 23 September 2009
16 October 2009 Doug Brent to Hank Johnson ICANN Corrections to Transcript of Testimony from 23 September 2009
15 October 2009 Khaled Fattal to Rod Beckstrom MINC, IPAC IDNs, Live Multilingual Translator, WebSynergys Inc. Create a New Supporting Organization-IDNSO
14 October 2009 Olaf Kolkman to CEO/Board Chair, IAB On the "Scaling the Root" Study
13 October 2009 Axel Pawlik, Rob Blokzijl, Jim Reid to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom RIPE RIPE Community Statement on Signing the Root Zone
12 October 2009 Hal Lubsen, Alexa Raad and Keith Drazek to Peter Dengate Thrush CEO, Afilias
CEO, PIR
Director, Government and Industry Relations, Neustar		 Registry/Registrar Separation
8 October 2009 Akossi Akossi to Rod Beckstrom African Telecommunications Union Affirmation of Commitments
6 October 2009 Jonathan Shea to Rod Beckstrom APTLD Congratulations on Affirmation
6 October 2009 Rod Beckstrom to Jonathan Shea ICANN IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
6 October 2009 Rod Beckstrom to Robin Gross, NCUC/NCUC ICANN Response to 18 August 2009 Letter re: Problems with the NCSG Charter, and to Address Continuing Misperception About Noncommercial Involvement in ICANN
5 October 2009 Mark McLaughlin to Wall Street Journal VeriSign Affirmation of Commitments
2 October 2009 Byron Holland to Rod Beckstrom Canadian Internet Registration Authority Affirmation of Commitments
30 September 2009 Michele J. Neylon to Rod Beckstrom Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Congratulations From Ireland
30 September 2009 Stephen Deerhake to Rod Beckstrom CEO, GDNS Inc Response to correspondence from Minds & Machines
25 September 2009 David W. Maher to Janis Karklins Chair, Registries Constituency Version 2 of ICANN's Draft Applicant Guidebook
24 September 2009 David W. Maher to Hank Johnson Chair, Registries Constituency Hearing on The Expansion of Top Level Domains and its Effects on Competition
22 September 2009 Mauricio Macri to Peter Dengate Thrush Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Request to Host December 2010 ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires
22 September 2009 Peter Dengate Thrush to Janis Karklins ICANN Comments to Applicant Guidebook version 2
21 September 2009 Antony Van Couvering, Paul Stahura, Jonathon Nevett, et.al. to Messrs. Beckstrom, Dengate Thrush, Brent, Pritz Minds & Machines, eNom, Network Solutions Support for New gTLDs
17 September 2009 Erik Wilbers to John Jeffrey WIPO Revision of UDRP Implementation Rules
15 September 2009 Lamar Smith and Brian Coble to Rod Beckstrom House Committee on the Judiciary New gTLD program and expiration of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA)
10 September 2009 Richard Tindal to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom eNom Registry/Registrar Cross Ownership
9 September 2009 Alexa Raad to Peter Dengate Thrush .ORG, The Public Interest Registry Proposed Registry/Registrant Vertical Integration
31 August 2009 Jonathan Shea to Peter Dengate Thrush Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
26 August 2009 Rod Beckstrom to Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua lll ICANN Nomination of a Philippine representative to the Governmental Advisory Committee
24 August 2009 Rod Beckstrom to Professors Qian and Tseng, CDNC ICANN Internationalized Domain Names
21 August 2009 Rod Beckstrom to Francis Gurry, WIPO ICANN Congratulations on appointment as CEO
20 August 2009 Patrick Baumann and Mike Miller to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom .SPORT Policy Advisory Council International Sports Federations Support for an Orderly Introduction of New Top-Level Domains ("TLD")
18 August 2009 Janis Karklins to Peter Dengate Thrush Chair Governmental Advisory Committee GAC Comments to Revised New GTLD Applicant Guidebook v2
18 August 2009 Members of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to ICANN Board and Mr. Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO NCUC Call to the ICANN Board to Correct Problems with the NCSG Charter, and to Address Continuing Misperceptions About Noncommercial Involvement in ICANN
11 August 2009 David Bell, CEO of ABA to Rod Beckstrom President and CEO Australian Bankers Association (ABA) Comments to Generic Top Level Domains - Draft Applicant Guidebook
3 August 2009 Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III to Rod Beckstrom Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines Nomination of a Philippine representative to the Governmental Advisory Committee
31 July 2009 Luis Pacheco de Melo to Rod Beckstrom Portugal Telecom Designated representative in ICANN
29 July 2009 Professors Qian and Tseng to Rod Beckstrom Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC) Internationalized Domain Names
29 July 2009 Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet to Rod Beckstrom Republique Francaise, Premier Ministre Congratulations on Appointment to CEO Position
24 July 2009 Alan C. Drewsen to Rod Beckstrom Executive Director, International Trademark Association (INTA) Comments on unlimited number of New gTLDs
23 July 2009 Francis Gurry to Rod Beckstrom WIPO Congratulations on appointment as CEO
22 July 2009 Jonathan E. Johnson III to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom Overstock.com Final Report of the Implementation Recommendation Team on Trademark Protection
19 June 2009 Edouard Dayan to Peter Dengate Thrush Universal Postal Union ICANN/UPU Negotiations for .POST sTLD
18 June 2009 Erik Wilbers to Kurt Pritz, John Jeffrey, Amy Stathos and Caroline Chicoine WIPO Comments on IRT Final Report
17 June 2009 Catherine Sigmar to Peter Dengate Thrush .PRO Registry-registrar separation
17 June 2009 Catherine Sigmar to Kurt Pritz RegistryPro Proposed .PRO Fee Amendment
10 June 2009 Stacy Burnette to Manita Malik ICANN Notice of Breach of ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement
10 June 2009 Stacy Burnette to Anthony Bourov ICANN Notice of Termination of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
10 June 2009 Stacy Burnette to Manetirony Clervrain ICANN Notice of Termination of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
10 June 2009 Stacy Burnette to Aries Ho ICANN Notice of Termination of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
10 June 2009 Stacy Burnette to J. Mark Young ICANN Notice of Termination of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
10 June 2009 Peter Dengate Thrush to Edouard Dayan ICANN ICANN/UPU Negotiations for .POST sTLD
9 June 2009 Jonathan Spencer to John Jeffrey VeriSign .name: Shortfall In Transaction Fees Due To Unreported I-Year Activations
8 June 2009 Peter Dengate Thrush to Fiona Alexander ICANN NTIA's Notice of Inquiry
28 May 2009 Peter Dengate Thrush to Anna Gomez National Telecommunications and Information Administration Signing the root zone
26 May 2009 Janis Karklins, Chair, GAC to Paul Twomey, CEO & President, ICANN GAC Geographic names at the second level
15 May 2009 Richard Tindal and Paul Stahura to Paul Twomey and Peter Dengate Thrush Afilias, PIR and Neustar Proposed changes to the Registry Registrar separation
15 May 2009 Jonathon L. Nevett to Peter Dengate Thrush Network Solutions Proposed changes to the Registry Registrar separation
8 May 2009 Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Paul Twomey Autonomica AB Root Server Letters
8 May 2009 Alexa Raad to Peter Dengate Thrush CEO Dot Org Proposed changes to the Registry Registrar separation
6 May 2009 Axel Pawlik to Paul Twomey RIPE NCC Root Server Letters
6 May 2009 Jun Murai to Paul Twomey The WIDE Project Root Server Letters
1 May 2009 Tim Switzer to Peter Dengate Thrush and Paul Twomey VP of Registry Services NeuStar proposal to release one and two-character second-level .BIZ domains
29 April 2009 Kurt Pritz to Fiona Alexander ICANN Proposed Amendments to Registrar Accreditation Agreement
24 April 2009 Janis Karklins to Paul Twomey Governmental Advisory Committee New gTLDs: Geographical Names
24 April 2009 Janis Karklins to Paul Twomey Governmental Advisory Committee GAC travel support
24 April 2009 Steve Metalitz and Claudio DiGangi to Doug Brent Intellectual Property Constituency Circumvention of Registrar Accreditation Agreement Section 3.7.7.3
17 April 2009 Paul Twomey to Adiel A. Akplogan ICANN Extension of exchange of letters between ICANN and NRO/RIRs
13 April 2009 Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President to Peter Dengate Thrush and Paul Twomey Microsoft Comments of Microsoft Corporation on technical Considerations relating to the Introduction of New gTLDs
13 April 2009 Michele Cantley and Hope Mehlman to Peter Dengate Thrush and Paul Twomey Regions Regions Financial Corporation's Comments on Draft Applicant Guidebook Version 2
13 April 2009 Sarah B. Deutsch to Peter Dengate Thrush and Paul Twomey Verizon Comments to Revised New GTLD Applicant Guidebook v2
9 April 2009 Erik Wilbers to John Jeffrey and David Giza WIPO Registrar Lead Networks Domains Pvt. Ltd.
8 April 2009 Craig Schwartz to Jonathan Spencer ICANN .NAME Assignment and Amended RRA
8 April 2009 Edouard Dayan to Peter Dengate Thrush Universal Postal Union ICANN/UPU Negotiations for .POST sTLD
6 April 2009 Peter Kjaer, Deputy General Counsel to Paul Twomey Lego Comments to ICANN regarding New gTLD . brand
3 April 2009 Erik Wilbers to Kurt Pritz, John Jeffrey and Amy Stathos WIPO WIPO RPM Discussion Draft
23 March 2009 Adiel A. Akplogan to Paul Twomey Chair (2009), Number Resource Organization Extension of exchange of letters between ICANN and NRO/RIRs
20 March 2009 Dr. Paul Twomey to Sha Zukang ICANN Enhanced Cooperation Letter
17 March 2009 Paul Twomey to Janis Karklins ICANN New gTLDs: geographic names at the second level
13 March 2009 Erik Wilbers to Kurt Pritz, John Jeffrey, Amy Stathos WIPO New gTLDs: Trademark-based Post-delegation Dispute Resolution
10 March 2009 Janis Karklins to Peter Dengate Thrush Governmental Advisory Committee GAC comments on new gTLD Applicant Guidebook version 1 and IDN ccTLD Fast Track methodology version 1
2 March 2009 Jonathan Spencer to John Jeffrey VeriSign Assignment of .name Registry Agreement
24 February 2009 Paul Twomey to Janis Karklins Chairman of the Governmental Advisory Committee Update on current and proposed work on WHOIS data research and analysis
24 February 2009 Paul Twomey to Mons. Carlo Maria Polvani ICANN Response to Holy See statement regarding New gTLDs
20 February 2009 Mons. Carlo Maria Polvani to Paul Twomey The Holy See Statement regarding delegation of new gTLDs
11 February 2009 Edouard Dayan to Peter Dengate Thrush Universal Postal Union ICANN/UPU Negotiations for .POST sTLD
4 February 2009 Harald Summa to Paul Twomey ECO, Germany Questions from potential applicants for new gTLDs
4 February 2009 Stacy Burnette to Kevin Bordes ICANN Notice of Breach of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
22 January 2009 Jorgen Abild Andersen to Peter Dengate Thrush Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation, National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark Comments to ICANN regarding New gTLDs
20 January 2009 Kristine Dorrain to John Jeffrey National Arbitration Forum Paperless UDRP
15 January 2009 Janis Karklins to Paul Twomey Governmental Advisory Committee Correspondence with governments
12 January 2009 John Jeffrey to Jonathan Spencer ICANN .NAME gTLD Registry
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."