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Glossary of terms commonly used by the ICANN Community
==Actors/Roles==
*[[NIC]] – A network information center manages a registry and contracts with the registrars accredited to sell domains under a given TLD.
*[[Registrant]] – A person who has registered a domain name through a registrar.
*[[Registrar]] – A company that is authorized to sell domain names.
==Communities of Practice==
*[[CCT]]
*[[GA]]
*[[GCOT]]
*[[ICANN Studienkreis]]
*[[IESG]]
*[[IRT]]
*[[JIG]]
*[[MAG]]
*[[RSTEP]]
*[[TDG]]
*[[TLG]]
===Working Groups/Work Parties===
*[[FFWG]]
*[[IDN WG]]
*[[PDP-WT]]
*[[PEDNR WG]]
*[[RAP WG]]
*[[VIWG]]
*[[WGIG]]
===Task Forces===
*[[IETF]] – The Internet Engineering Task Force is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
*[[Whois Task Force]]
===Draft Teams===
*[[STI-DT]]
===Committees===
*[[BGC]]
*[[CEO Search Committee]]
*[[OSC]]
*[[PPSC]]
*[[SIC]]
*[[TMC]]
==Databases==
*[[Registry]] – a database of all domain names registered under a certain TLD.
==Documents==
==Organizations==
*[[ICANN]]
*[[ISOC]] – The Internet Society
==Processes==
*[[Public Comment]]
===Programs===
*[[Fellowship Program]]
*[[New gTLD Program]] – a process by which ICANN accepts applications to add new TLDs to the Root Zone.
*[[NextGen@ICANN]]
==Internet Architecture==
===Domain Name System===
*[[DNS]] – The Domain Name System translates between alphanumeric domain names and IP Addresses.
*[[Root Zone]] –
===Protocols===
====Domain Name====
*[[Domain Name]] – An identification string that represents an IP resource, such as a computer, website, or service.
*[[TLD]] – A '''Top Level Domain (TLD)''' is the last part of a domain name
*[[ccTLD]] – A Country-Code Top Level Domain is a TLD with two characters, originally designed for a particular country, sovereign state, or autonomous territory.
*[[gTLD]] – A '''Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD)''' refers to any TLD that is not a ccTLD.
*[[IDN]] – An Internationalized Domain Names is formed using characters from different scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, or Devanagari. These are encoded by the Unicode standard following IDN protocol
*[[DNSSEC]]
*[[IP]] – Internet Protocol is the means by which data is sent from one computer to another via an Internet connection.
*[[Internet Protocol Suite]]
*[[IPv4]]
*[[IPv6]]
==Actors/Roles==
*[[NIC]] – A network information center manages a registry and contracts with the registrars accredited to sell domains under a given TLD.
*[[Registrant]] – A person who has registered a domain name through a registrar.
*[[Registrar]] – A company that is authorized to sell domain names.
==Communities of Practice==
*[[CCT]]
*[[GA]]
*[[GCOT]]
*[[ICANN Studienkreis]]
*[[IESG]]
*[[IRT]]
*[[JIG]]
*[[MAG]]
*[[RSTEP]]
*[[TDG]]
*[[TLG]]
===Working Groups/Work Parties===
*[[FFWG]]
*[[IDN WG]]
*[[PDP-WT]]
*[[PEDNR WG]]
*[[RAP WG]]
*[[VIWG]]
*[[WGIG]]
===Task Forces===
*[[IETF]] – The Internet Engineering Task Force is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
*[[Whois Task Force]]
===Draft Teams===
*[[STI-DT]]
===Committees===
*[[BGC]]
*[[CEO Search Committee]]
*[[OSC]]
*[[PPSC]]
*[[SIC]]
*[[TMC]]
==Databases==
*[[Registry]] – a database of all domain names registered under a certain TLD.
==Documents==
==Organizations==
*[[ICANN]]
*[[ISOC]] – The Internet Society
==Processes==
*[[Public Comment]]
===Programs===
*[[Fellowship Program]]
*[[New gTLD Program]] – a process by which ICANN accepts applications to add new TLDs to the Root Zone.
*[[NextGen@ICANN]]
==Internet Architecture==
===Domain Name System===
*[[DNS]] – The Domain Name System translates between alphanumeric domain names and IP Addresses.
*[[Root Zone]] –
===Protocols===
====Domain Name====
*[[Domain Name]] – An identification string that represents an IP resource, such as a computer, website, or service.
*[[TLD]] – A '''Top Level Domain (TLD)''' is the last part of a domain name
*[[ccTLD]] – A Country-Code Top Level Domain is a TLD with two characters, originally designed for a particular country, sovereign state, or autonomous territory.
*[[gTLD]] – A '''Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD)''' refers to any TLD that is not a ccTLD.
*[[IDN]] – An Internationalized Domain Names is formed using characters from different scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, or Devanagari. These are encoded by the Unicode standard following IDN protocol
*[[DNSSEC]]
*[[IP]] – Internet Protocol is the means by which data is sent from one computer to another via an Internet connection.
*[[Internet Protocol Suite]]
*[[IPv4]]
*[[IPv6]]