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Annual Meeting of the PTI Board | 09 November 2016

  1. PTI Audit Committee Charter and Composition
  2. Board Leadership and Officer Election

  1. PTI Audit Committee Charter and Composition

    Resolved (PTI2016.11.09.01), the PTI Board adopts the PTI Board Audit Committee Charter.

    Resolved (PTI2016.xx.xx.xx) the PTI Board appoints the following members to the PTI Board Audit Committee:

    • Lise Fuhr, Chair
    • Akram Atallah
    • Jonathan Robinson

    RATIONALE FOR RESOLUTION PTI.2016.11.09.01:

    The PTI Board takes this action today to fulfil PTI’s Bylaws and legal obligations.  For sound governance, PTI is required to have an Audit Committee.  The Audit Committee has primary responsibility for recommending to the Board the appointment of the Independent Auditor that will annually audit PTI’s financial statements.  The Audit Committee will also review the audited financial statements and discuss the audit finding with the Independent Auditor, including considerations of the financial affairs of the organization.  Because ICANN and PTI are subject to the same laws based on having the same corporate form (California Nonprofit Public Benefit Organization operating for charitable purposes), a charter for the PTI Board Audit Committee has been drafted based on ICANN’s Audit Committee Charter.

    This action does not impact the security, stability or resiliency of the Internet DNS.  There are no impacts on the financial resources of PTI as a result of this action; instead it is a key action to support healthy financial controls.

  2. Board Leadership and Officer Election

    Resolved (PTI2016.11.09.02), the PTI Board confirms this meeting as the Annual Meeting of the PTI Board.

    Resolved (PTI2016.11.09.03) elects Jonathan Robinson as the PTI Board Chair.

    Resolved (PTI2016.11.09.04) the PTI Board elects the following officers of PTI:

    • Becky Nash, PTI Treasurer
    • Samantha Eisner, PTI Secretary

    RATIONALE FOR RESOLUTIONS PTI2016.11.09.02 - 04:

    The PTI Board takes this action today in fulfilment of the PTI Bylaws that require the Board to convene an Annual Meeting and make elections at the Annual Meeting.

    This action does not impact the security, stability or resiliency of the Internet DNS.  There are no impacts on the financial resources of PTI as a result of this action.

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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."