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21 December 2018 Letter from Laura Flannery to Göran Marby in reply to his 6 December 2018 letter
11 December 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Dave Jevans and Jerry Upton in reply to their 18 October 2018 letters
11 December 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Nick Wood in reply to his 22 October 2018 letter
11 December 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Graeme Bunton and Donna Austin in reply to their 22 October 2018 letter
11 December 2018 Letter from Cyrus Namazi to Intellectual Property Constituency in reply to their 12 November 2018 letter
06 December 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Helen Dixon and Willem Debeuckelaere regarding ICANN Contractual Compliance Data Processing Activities and the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
06 December 2018 Letter from Cyrus Namazi to Graeme Bunton in reply to his 26 September 2018 letter
03 December 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Ben Milam in reply to his 12 October 2018 letter.
14 November 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Keith Drazek regarding Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) for gTLD Registration Data
13 November 2018 Letter from Cyrus Namazi to Graeme Bunton in reply to his 3 August 2018 letter
12 November 2018 Letter from the Intellectual Property Constituency to Cherine Chalaby, Göran Marby, and Cyrus Namazi regarding Privacy and Proxy Service Provider Accreditation Policy Implementation
6 November 2018 Letter from Cyrus Namazi to Graeme Bunton in reply to his 5 September 2018
22 October 2018 Letter from Nick Wood to Göran Marby and ICANN Board regarding Importance of Access to WHOIS Data Post-GDPR
22 October 2018 Letter from Graeme Bunton and Paul Diaz to Cherine Chalaby and Göran Marby regarding 3rd Party Access to Data Models
21 October 2018 Letter from Michele Neylon to Göran Marby, Cherine Chalaby, and Jamie Hedlund regarding Third Party Requests to Registrant Data
21 October 2018 Letter from Elliot Noss to Göran Marby, Cherine Chalaby and Jamie Hedlund regarding Third Party Requests to Registrant Data
20 October 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Farzaneh Badiei and Stephanie Perrin in reply to their 17 October 2018 letter

18 October 2018

Letter from Jerry Upton to Göran Marby, Cherine Chalaby, and Rod Rasmussen regarding GDPR and WHOIS User Survey Results

18 October 2018

Letter from Dave Jevans to Göran Marby, Cherine Chalaby, and Rod Rasmussen regarding Impacts to Internet Security and Investigations

17 October 2018 Letter from Dr. Farzaneh Badiei and Dr. Stephanie Perrin to the ICANN Board regarding Domain Name Registrants Data Protection (GDPR)

16 October 2018

Letter from Jamie Hedlund to the Independent Compliance Working Party in reply to their 6 September 2018 letter

12 October 2018

Letter from Ben Milam to Cherine Chalaby and Göran Marby regarding WHOIS Enforcement Process

08 October 2018 Letter from Theresa Swinehart to Manal Ismail in reply to the GAC's 28 June 2018 Communiqué – Panama City, Panama
27 September 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to ICANN Business Constituency and ICANN Intellectual Property Constituency in reply to their 7 September 2018 letter
26 September 2018 Letter from Graeme Bunton to Göran Marby, Cherine Chalaby, and Daniel Halloran regarding ICANN Contractual Compliance and GDPR
26 September 2018 Letter from Willem Debeuckelaere to Göran Marby regarding ICANN - Activities of the Brussels Branch Office
18 September 2018 Letter from Tarek Kamel to Rahul Gosain in reply to his 3 August 2018 letter
12 September 2018 Letter from Manal Ismail to Göran Marby regarding Request for Guidance on GDPR and Providing Access to Non-Public WHOIS Data
7 September 2018 Letter from ICANN Business and Intellectual Property Constituencies to Göran Marby regarding Next Steps for Access to Non-Public WHOIS
6 September 2018 Letter from Independent Compliance Working Party to Jamie Hedlund, et al. regarding ICWP Priorities
5 September 2018 Letter from Theresa Swinehart to Mohamed El Bashir in reply to his 26 July 2018 letter
5 September 2018 Letter from Graeme Bunton to Akram Atallah regarding GDPR and Across-field Address Validation Working Group (AFAV)
5 September 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to ICANN Business and Intellectual Property Constituencies in reply to their 24 July 2018 letter
4 September 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Manal Ismail regarding a Request for Guidance on GDPR and Providing Access to Non-Public WHOIS Data
4 September 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Elliot Noss in reply to his 7 June 2018 letter
9 August 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Willem Debeuckelaere in reply to his 16 July 2018 letter
9 August 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to ICANN Business Constituency in reply to their 21 July 2018 letter
9 August 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Dave Jevans in reply to his 8 June 2018 letter
7 August 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak in reply to their 2 August 2018 letter
3 August 2018 Letter from Graeme Bunton to Cyrus Namazi regarding Domain Name Transfers, as specified in the Temporary Specification
3 August 2018 Letter from Marc H. Trachtenberg to Göran Marby regarding Model for Access to Non-Public WhoIs Data (GDPR)
3 August 2018 Letter from Rahul Gosain to Tarek Kamel regarding comments on ICANN-Proposed Framework Elements for Unified Access Model for Continued Access to Full WHOIS Data
2 August 2018 Letter from Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak to Cherine Chalaby and Göran Marby regarding Request for EPDP Resources
2 August 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak in reply to their 12 July letter [PDF, 414 KB]
26 July 2018 Letter from Mohamed El Bashir to Board Operations regarding AFRALO/AFRICANN Panama meeting Statement "General Data Protection Regulation - (GDPR)" [PDF, 302 KB]
24 July 2018 Letter from ICANN Business and Intellectual Property Constituencies to Göran Marby regarding ICANN's GDPR Compliance Model Comparison Chart [PDF, 144 KB]
18 July 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Heather Forrest in reply to her 12 July letter [PDF, 202 KB]
16 July 2018 Letter from Willem Debeuckelaere to Jean-Jacques Sahel regarding ICANN - Activities of the Brussels Branch Office
12 July 2018 Letter from Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak to Göran Marby regarding Call for Volunteers: Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data [PDF, 338 KB]
12 July 2018 Letter from Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak to Cherine Chalaby regarding Call for Volunteers: Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data [PDF, 335 KB]
5 July 2018 Letter from Andrea Jelinek to Göran Marby in reply to his 10 May 2018 letter [PDF, 764 KB]
24 June 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak in reply to their 19 and 22 June 2018 letters [PDF, 278 KB]
22 June 2018 Letter from Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak to Cherine Chalaby regarding Expedited Policy Development Process in relation to the Temporary Specification [PDF, 700 KB]
21 June 2018 Letter from the Business Constituency to ICANN Board, Göran Marby, and John Jeffrey regarding Comments on application of GDPR to WHOIS and Temporary Specification [PDF, 63 KB]
19 June 2018 Letter from Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak to Cherine Chalaby regarding Expedited Policy Development Process in relation to the Temporary Specification [PDF, 606 KB]
11 June 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Heather Forrest regarding her 8 June 2018 letter [PDF, 594 KB]
11 June 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Claudia Selli in reply to her 6 April 2018 letter [PDF, 157 KB]
8 June 2018 Letter from Heather Forrest, Donna Austin, and Rafik Dammak to Cherine Chalaby regarding High-level notes taken at the meeting of the ICANN Board and GNSO Council on 5 June 2018 [PDF, 972 KB]
7 June 2018 Letter from Elliot Noss to Göran Marby regarding Registration Data Privacy [PDF, 318 KB]
6 June 2018 Letter from Akram Atallah to Graeme Bunton in response to his 4 May 2018 letter [PDF, 244 KB]
4 June 2018 Letter from Dave Jevans to Göran Marby, Cherine Chalaby, and Rod Rasmussen regarding Public WHOIS Attributes, Securely Hashed [PDF, 181 KB]
1 June 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Manal Ismail in response to her 17 May 2018 letter [PDF, 299 KB]
27 May 2018 Statement from European Data Protection Board regarding WHOIS
25 May 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Heather Forrest regarding GNSO Consultation with GNSO [PDF, 168 KB]
25 May 2018 Letter from Jamie Hedlund to Graeme Bunton in response to his 16 May 2018 letter [PDF, 102 KB]
23 May 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Roberto Viola, Paraskevi Michou, and Tiina Astola in response to their 17 May 2018 letter [PDF, 339 KB]
17 May 2018 Letter from Manal Ismail to Cherine Chalaby in response to his 11 May 2018 letter [PDF, 525 KB]
17 May 2018 Letter from Roberto Viola, Paraskevi Michou, and Tiina Astola to Göran Marby regarding the Proposed Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data [PDF, 152 KB]
16 May 2018 Letter from Constantinos Georgiades to Göran Marby in response to his 26 March 2018 letter [PDF, 220 KB]
16 May 2018 Letter from Graeme Bunton to Göran Marby regarding Request for Compliance Moratorium for Temporary Specification Implementation [PDF, 43.1 KB]
11 May 2018 Letter from Jamie Hedlund to Ari Kirsh in response to his 11 May 2018 letter [PDF, 53.9 KB]
11 May 2018 Letter from Ari Kirsh to Göran Marby and Cherine Chalaby regarding ICANN-proposed Compliance Models [PDF, 5.2 MB]
11 May 2018 Letter from the ICANN Business Constituency to the ICANN Board regarding ICANN-Proposed Compliance Models [PDF, 71 KB]
11 May 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Manal Ismail regarding Bylaws consultation on GAC advice in San Juan Communiqué [PDF, 315 KB]
10 May 2018 Letter from Dean Marks & Steve Metalitz to Akram Atallah & Cyrus Namazi regarding their recommendation to reject RrSG request to halt implementation of privacy/proxy accreditation [PDF, 77 KB]
10 May 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Andrea Jelinek regarding 23 April 2018 Article 29 Working Party meeting [PDF, 564 KB]
7 May 2018 Letter from Tobias Sattler to Akram Atallah in response to his 4 May 2018 letter [PDF, 73 KB]
5 May 2018 Letter from Cherine Chalaby to Manal Ismail regarding Board comment on GAC Advice regarding GDPR [PDF, 13 KB]
4 May 2018 Letter from Akram Atallah to Tobias Sattler in response to his 1 May 2018 letter [PDF, 378 KB]
4 May 2018 Letter from Graeme Bunton to Akram Atallah regarding Effect of GDPR-Related Temporary Policy on Across-field Address Validation Working Group (AFAV) and the Privacy/Proxy Services Accreditation Implementation Review Team [PDF, 52 KB]
4 May 2018 Letter from Jiri Mesicek to Göran Marby in response to his 26 March 2018 letter [PDF, 346 KB]
1 May 2018 Letter from Tobias Sattler to Akram Atallah regarding CPH TechOps on GDPR Impact on Domain Name Transfers and Registrant Contact Changes [PDF, 77 KB]
1 May 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Jonathan Matkowsky in response to his 26 March 2018 letter [PDF, 258 KB]
20 April 2018 Letter from Edyta Bielak-Jomaa to Göran Marby in response to his 26 March 2018 letter [PDF, 110 KB]
12 April 2018 Letter from Göran Marby to Andrea Jelinek in response to her 12 April 2018 letter [PDF, 313 KB]
11 April 2018 Letter from Andrea Jelinek to Göran Marby in response to his 16 January 2018 letter [PDF, 399 KB]
6 April 2018 Letter from Claudia Selli to Cherine Chalaby regarding GDPR Compliance and GAC Advice [PDF, 132 KB]
29 March 2018 Letter from Lena Lindgren Schelin to Göran Marby in response to his 26 March 2018 letter [PDF, 999 KB]
29 March 2018 Letter from David Olive and Theresa Swinehart in response to Brian Winterfeldt's 15 March letter [PDF, 465 KB]
26 March 2018 Letter from Jonathan Matkowsky to Göran Marby and Cherine Chalaby regarding a Request for Adequate Assurances Relating to WHOIS and GDPR [PDF, 125 KB]
26 March 2018 Letters from Göran Marby to various Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) regarding Request for Guidance: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Impact on the Domain Name System and WHOIS
15 March 2018 Letter from Brian Winterfeldt to David Olive and Theresa Swinehart regarding Request for Support for Accreditation Model Proposal [PDF, 122 KB]
12 March 2018 Letter from Tijani Ben Jemaa to ICANN regarding Middle East Community statement on GDPR [PDF, 58 KB]
8 March 2018 Letter from Göran Marby in response to Roberto Viola's 7 February letter [PDF, 59 KB]
8 March 2018 Letter from Göran Marby in response to Dražen Lučić's 2 January letter [PDF, 78 KB]
8 March 2018 Letter from Göran Marby in response to letter from Dimitris Avramopoulos, Vêra Jourova, and Sir Julian King on 29 January [PDF, 75 KB]
5 March 2018 Letter from Göran Marby in response to Brian Winterfeldt's 13 January letter [PDF, 59 KB]
22 February 2018 Letter from Göran Marby in response to Manal Ismail's 17 December letter [PDF, 303 KB]
7 February 2018 Letter from Roberto Viola to Göran Marby regarding Technical input on Proposed WHOIS Models on behalf of the European Union [PDF, 99 KB]
29 January 2018 Letter from Dimitris Avramopoulos, Vêra Jourova, and Sir Julian King to Göran Marby regarding GDPR and WHOIS Concerns [PDF, 834 KB]
23 January 2018 Letter from Göran Marby in response to Andrew Mack's 8 December letter [PDF, 330 KB]
23 January 2018 Letter from Göran Marby in response to Brian Winterfeldt's 14 December letter [PDF, 404 KB]
18 January 2018 Letter from Theresa Swinehart in response to Mohamed El Bashir's 24 November letter [PDF, 298 KB]
15 January 2018 Letter from Göran Marby in response to Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin's 6 December letter [PDF, 85 KB]
13 January 2018 Letter from Brian Winterfeldt to Göran Marby regarding IPC Submission to ICANN CEO re: Models for GDPR Compliance [PDF, 65 KB]
2 January 2018 Letter from Drazen Lučić to Göran Marby regarding GDPR Impact on WHOIS Compliance [PDF, 67 KB]
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."