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ICANN TEG (Technical Experts Group)

In addition to the TLG, ICANN manages a Technical Experts Group. The TEG is focused on forward-looking technical and technological issues, particularly as those issues impact the use of the Internet's system of unique identifiers that, in the view of TEG members, ICANN's board and staff should take into consideration when considering ICANN's strategies and operations. The TEG meets at most ICANN meetings with Board members, TLG members, and invited participants. The agendas focus on specific issues of technology that the group as a whole believe need to be brought to the Board's attention so they may make more informed decisions.

17 November 2013 – Meeting of the Technical Experts Group, Summary of the meeting

26 March 2014 – Meeting of the Technical Experts Group, Summary of the meeting

25 June 2014 – Meeting of the Technical Experts Group, Edited notes of the meeting

15 October 2014 – Meeting of the Technical Experts Group, Summary of the meeting

11 February 2015 – Meeting of the Technical Experts Group, Edited transcript of the meeting

24 June 2015 – Meeting of the Technical Experts Group, Edited notes of the meeting

9 March 2016 ­– Meeting of the Technical Experts Group, Edited transcript of the meeting.

8 November 2016 ­– Meeting of the Technical Experts Group, Transcript of meeting.

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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."