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ICANN Regional Plans and Reports | 2021

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Africa Regional Reports

ICANN Africa Regional Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025 (1 July-2020 -30 June 2025)

Africa Regional Report for 1 July 2020-30 June 2021
Also available in: French

Asia Pacific (APAC) Regional Plan and Reports

APAC Regional Plan – FY21 Achievements and FY22 Highlights

Asia Pacific Regional Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025 (Updated 2021)

Asia Pacific Regional Report for 1 July 2020-30 June 2021

Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) Regional Reports

Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Report for 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
Also available in: Russian

Europe Regional Reports

Europe Regional Report for 1 July 2020-30 June 2021
Also available in: French | Spanish

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Regional Reports

Latin American and the Caribbean Strategic Plan
Also available in: French | Portuguese | Spanish

Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Report for 1 July 2020 - 30 June 2021
Also available in: French | Portuguese | Spanish

Middle East Regional Reports

ICANN Middle East Regional Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025 (1 July-2020 -30 June 2025)

Middle East Regional Report for 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
Also available in: Arabic | French

North America Regional Reports

ICANN North America Regional Engagement Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025

North America Regional Report for 1 July 2020-30 June 2021

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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."