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Resources For Community Members

These resources are shared to support working effectively in a multistakeholder environment.

Please share your ideas for other resources that would support Community Members to include on this page by emailing,

The Ombuds Office: [email protected]

The Ombuds: [email protected]

ICANN Community Anti-Harassment Policy

The Community Anti-Harassment Policy applies to all participants in the ICANN multistakeholder processes. It includes definition and examples of harassment. It details support available to raise a concern or make a complaint about harassment. Advice and guidance are always available from the ICANN Ombuds, whether someone wants to raise a complaint formally or not. It can be challenging to speak up and seek help; affected individuals can request the type of support with which they are most comfortable.

ICANN Expected Standards of Behavior

These standards detail the behavior expected of everyone who takes part in ICANN multistakeholder process, including Board, staff and community members.

ICANN Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit

This easy-to-use resource helps users explore the toolkit based on your needs. It offers practical guidance on attracting diverse community members, addressing specific diversity topics, and building personal understanding. The toolkit also links to additional online resources for deeper learning.

ICANN Learn

Online self-paced tutorials designed for people working in diverse community groups. These short courses cover helpful topics like communication, intercultural working, unconscious bias, and anti-harassment or conflict.

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."