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ICANN DNS Symposium | September 2024

The seventh Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) DNS Symposium (IDS 2024) will be held on 25 September 2024 in Santa Marta, Colombia.

Under the theme "Navigating the Future: Innovations and Challenges in DNS Operations," IDS 2024 will converge with ICANN's Latin American and Caribbean Domain Names Week and the DNS Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC) 43rd workshop. Commencing with a full day of plenary sessions, the week-long series of events promises a comprehensive exploration of pivotal issues in the Domain Name System (DNS) landscape.

IDS2024 will focus on innovations and challenges shaping the future of the DNS from the perspective of the operator. The symposium invites researchers, developers, and operators (of any description) to present on subjects including, but not limited to, ideas around extending the DNS protocol, optimizing performance, safeguarding DNS communications, and increasing the reliability and availability of DNS service in case of attack or outage.

We are soliciting proposals for presentations.

Please send a one-paragraph description of your proposed topic to ids-proposals@icann.org by 26 August 2024. We will notify accepted speakers and publish a preliminary agenda by 30 August 2024.

 Week Schedule of Events:

  • 23 September – Plenary Sessions
  • 24 September – LAC Domain Names Week
  • 25 September – ICANN DNS Symposium
  • 26 September – OARC 43

Venue

Hotel and Venue:
Santa Marta Marriott Resort Playa Dormida
Carrera 3 No 142-60, Bello Horizonte, Santa Marta, Colombia, 470006
Tel: +57 605-4410000
Hotel Website.

Registration link and remote participation information will be forthcoming

Contact Us

Email globalsupport@icann.org with "ICANN DNS Symposium" in the subject line.

IDS Archive

View IDS 2023 webpage

View IDS 2022 webpage

View IDS 2021 webpage (virtual event)

View IDS 2020 webpage (canceled event)

View IDS 2019 webpage

View IDS 2018 webpage

View IDS 2017 webpage

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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."