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Boris Perelshteyn

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer, QA Automation

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Min Shi

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 2

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Amer Alamad

United States of America

Staff Accountant

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Maeva Devoto

Belgium

GE Operations Coordinator

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Neelam Kumar

United States of America

Project Manager II

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Jonathan Phillips

United States of America

Operations Coordinator

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Romulo Chacin

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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June Okal

Kenya

Stakeholder Engagement Sr. Manager, East & Southern Africa

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Lawrence He

United States of America

Project Manager I

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Lee Drasin

United States of America

Senior Director, Digital & Creative Services

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Jeff Graham

United States of America

Sr. Project Coordinator

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Sweta Chalasani

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer

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Steve Fessler

United States of America

Treasury Director

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Gavin Brown

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Technical Services Principal Engineer

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Angela Wibawa

Singapore

Government and IGO Engagement Director, APAC

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Eduardo Duarte

Portugal

Technical Services Principal Engineer

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Devan Reed

United States of America

Policy Operations Coordinator

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Salih Akkaya

Türkiye, Republic of

Travel Services Planner

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Madeleine Werbelow

United States of America

Grant Program Coordinator

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Simon Mayoye

Kenya

Regional Technical Engagement Specialist

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Frederick John Gransee IV

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager 2

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Tracy Dallarda

United States of America

VP, Communications

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Michelle DeSmyter

United States of America

Policy Operations Coordinator

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Reda Josifi

United States of America

Project Manager I

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Blessing Akinsilo

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Tania Hopkins

United States of America

IANA Continuous Improvement Specialist

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Nadya Khan

United States of America

Operations Specialist

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Jason Kean

United States of America

Manager, Review Support & Accountability Projects

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Susan Eugenia

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Aaron Foley

United States of America

Senior Cryptographic Key Manager

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Alireza Mohammadi

United States of America

Senior Developer-Python

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Amy Creamer

United States of America

Director, IANA Operations

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Andres Pavez

United States of America

Senior Cryptographic Key Manager

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David Dong

United States of America

IANA Services Sr. Specialist

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Elizabeth Oluoch

United States of America

Government and IGO Engagement Director- UN/ITU

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Gary Johnson

United States of America

Executive Assistant-TEMP

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Jessica Puccio

United States of America

Review Support & Accountability Senior Coordinator

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Jon Green

United States of America

UX Designer

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Kathleen Murphy

United States of America

Sr. HR Coordinator TEMP

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Maira Gomez

United States of America

Accounts Payable Lead

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Marilia Hirano

United States of America

Director, IANA Strategic Programs

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Maya Saito

United States of America

Events Senior Manager

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Naela Sarras

United States of America

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - North America

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Pierinna Bocca Diaz

United States of America

Operations Specialist

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Ria Otanes

United States of America

Senior Travel Services Planner

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Sabrina Tanamal

United States of America

IANA Services Lead Specialist

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Save Vocea

Australia

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Oceania

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Selina Harrington

United States of America

IANA Operations Manager

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."