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===ICANN and Industry Participation===
At the [[ICANN 39|39th ICANN Meeting]], held in Cartagena in late 2010, Mr. Fattal uses the public forum to comment on the use of the word "terrorist" in a draft of the [[gTLD Applicant Guidebook]]; he outlined the negative implications of using this term and the other related language. He noted that the language was vague, and had the potential to be seen as discriminatory to entire nations and their population. It seemed to associate anyone coming from a U.S.-sanctioned country with that negative image. He believed that this direct affront to entire countries threatened ICANN's international, egalitarian mandate and had the potential to cause a disruption of the [[Root Zone|single root Internet]]. ICANN accepted his comments and changed the language of the clause.<ref>[http://www.minc.org/news.aspx?id=430&lang=en News, MINC.org]</ref> His position is also explicated in an open letter, posted on [[CircleID]] and elsewhere, it can be seen [http://www.minc.org/news.aspx?id=425&lang=en here].

In October 2009, Khaled Fattal posted an open letter addressed to the heads of ICANN and its [[Supporting Organization]]s, in it he suggested the creation of a new Supporting Organization, the "The [[Internationalized Domain Names Supporting Organization]]", or IDNSO. He pointed out that making the success of IDNs a premier and continually monitored issue within ICANN would ensure that it was taking its mandate of creating a global Internet more seriously. As is, he argued that ICANN was heading for "grave disasters" in IDN implementation. He was specifically worried about the lack of IDN concern with regards to new [[gTLD]]s.<ref name="news"></ref>

He participated in the [[WSIS]] (World Summit on Information Society) and its declaration of Principle and action plan of December 2003, and the consultation on the formation of the [[WGIG]] (United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance) created by Mr. Kofe Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations. He has been an ICANN President's Advisory Committee Member for Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) since 2005. <ref>[http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/khaled-fattal/1/965/62a Linkedin]</ref>

When a Polish [[ccTLD]] registry, [[NASK]], posted [[ICANN]] & [[IANA]]’s Arabic Language Table, he led the campaign to remove the table and reserve the development of Arabic language standards and tables to be done by Arabian Nationalities. <ref>[http://www.tagorg-theinstitution.com/UserPages/demo_news.aspx?id=82&q=&lang=en Tag-Org]</ref> On Aug 9th 2004, Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew language tables were removed.