ICANN Terms
The following terms are commonly used by the ICANN Community.
Actors/Roles[edit | edit source]
- CA – a third party company that issues digital certificates and public-private keys as a part of a chosen Public Key Infrastructure.
- ICANN Fellow – A member of the Internet community and recipient of a grant provided by the ICANN Fellowship Program.
- Independent Objector – a position created by ICANN to determine if a new gTLD application is in the best interest of the Internet community.
- 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.
- Internet Service Provider
Communities of Practice[edit | edit source]
Working Groups/Work Parties[edit | edit source]
- ASIWG – Arabic Script IDN Working Group
- CCWG-IG – Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance
- FFWG
- IDN WG
- PDP-WT
- PEDNR WG
- RAP WG
- VIWG
- WGIG
Task Forces[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
Committees[edit | edit source]
- BGC - a committee established to enhance the performance of the Board, lead the annual Board performance review, including the CEO, and recommend nominees for Board Chair, Vice Chair, and other leadership positions.
- CEO Search Committee
- OSC
- PPSC
- SIC
- TMC
Databases[edit | edit source]
Documents[edit | edit source]
- Applicant Guidebook – ICANN guidebook for applying for new gTLDs in the New gTLD Program
- ICANN Bylaws
Organizations[edit | edit source]
- APTLD – the Association for ccTLD registries in the Asia Pacific region
- ASIP – a non-profit organization, based in Jordan, for developing and modernizing intellectual property laws and systems in Arab countries.
- ICANN
- ISOC – The Internet Society
- PTI –
Processes[edit | edit source]
- ADR – an Alternative Dispute Resolution is a process for helping parties under dispute resolve their argument without filing any litigation.
- Batching – ICANN's process for dividing applications for the new gTLD program into batches.
- Public Comment
- RSEP – ICANN process for screening and approving proposals made by gTLD operators for new registry services.
Functions[edit | edit source]
- IANA –
Programs[edit | edit source]
- Fellowship Program
- New gTLD Program – a process by which ICANN accepts applications to add new TLDs to the Root Zone.
- NextGen@ICANN
Internet Architecture[edit | edit source]
- ARPANET – the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite; the technical foundation of the Internet.
Domain Name System[edit | edit source]
- DNS – The Domain Name System translates between alphanumeric domain names and IP Addresses.
- Root Zone –
Protocols[edit | edit source]
Domain Name[edit | edit source]
- Domain Name – An identification string that represents an IP resource, such as a computer, website, or service.
- TLD – The Top Level Domain is the last part of a domain name; see the main article for more info on types of TLDs.
- 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
- Internet Layer
- IP – Internet Protocol is the means by which data is sent from one computer to another via an Internet connection.
- IP Address – the unique number given to every computer connected to the Internet. This number allows users and other computers to find each other.
- Internet Protocol Suite
- IPv4
- IPv6