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President's Corner

Ahead of each Board workshop, the ICANN Organization Executive Team compiles a brief report for the Board that summarizes each department’s highlights, milestones and provides an overview of recent activity. In our continued commitment to increased transparency, we will begin making these reports public.

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About Göran

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Göran Marby brings over 20 years experience as a senior executive in the Internet and technology sector, as well as his leadership as Director General at the independent regulatory body Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), where he worked closely with international organizations and standards bodies.

    ICANN Org Reports to the Board

    1 September-6 October 2016 [Posted 22 November 2016][PDF][1.2MB]

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    Presidents Corner: Increased Reporting to the Community

    Ahead of each Board workshop, the ICANN Organization Executive Team compiles a brief report for the Board that summarizes each department’s highlights, milestones and provides an overview of recent activity. In our continued commitment to increased transparency, we will begin making these reports public. You can expect to see updates in the following areas of the organization’s...

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    ICANN Org Reports to the Board

    1 September-6 October 2016 [Posted 22 November 2016][PDF][1.2MB]

    Media with Göran

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    Participación LAC en ICANN57

    Conozca más acerca del Programa de becas: https://www.icann.org/fellowshipprogram Conozca más sobre la GNSO: http://gnso.icann.org/en/ Conozca más sobre At-Large:...

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    LAC participation at ICANN57

    Learn more about the Fellowship Program: https://www.icann.org/fellowshipprogram Learn more about the GNSO: http://gnso.icann.org/en/ Learn more about At-Large: https://atlarge.icann.org/ Meet...

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    Participação LAC no ICANN57

    Saiba mais sobre o Programa de Fellowship: https://www.icann.org/fellowshipprogram Saiba mais sobre a GNSO: http://gnso.icann.org/en/ Saiba mais sobre o At-Large:...

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    Watch the wrap-up interview with Stephen Crocker and Göran Marby at ICANN57

    ICANN's Liana Teo speaks with Board Chair Stephen Crocker and President and CEO Göran Marby about ICANN57.

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    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."