The following terms are commonly used by the ICANN Community.

Actors/Roles edit

  • 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

  • GA – the General Assembly Mailing List is an open forum for participation for the GNSO.
  • ICANN Studienkreis – an open network of experts dedicated to organizing high-level seminars on Internet industry and governance
  • IESG – the Internet Engineering Steering Group oversees the technical management of the IETF.
  • ICANN Bodies
  • JIG
  • MAG
  • RSTEP
  • TDG
  • TLG

Working Groups/Work Parties edit

Task Forces edit

  • 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

Teams edit

  • CERT – A Computer Emergency Response Team or Computer Security Incident Response Team is a group designated to handle computer security.
  • Communications and Coordination Work TeamGNSO team for developing proposals for the Council in response to recommendations made by the BGC WG.
  • GCOT– the GNSO team for identifying areas for review to best seat a new Council and gather OSC feedback
  • IRT The Implementation Recommendation Team is an Intellectual Property Constituency-created group of consumer protection and trademark law experts.
  • STI-DT

Committees edit

  • 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
  • OSCGNSO Operations Steering Committee
  • PPSC
  • SIC
  • TMC

Databases edit

  • Registry – a database of all domain names registered under a certain TLD.

Documents edit

Organizations edit

  • 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

  • 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

Programs edit

Internet Architecture edit

  • 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

  • DNS – The Domain Name System translates between alphanumeric domain names and IP Addresses.
  • Root Zone

Protocols edit

Domain Name edit

  • 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