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Composition of the Meeting Strategy Working Group (MSWG)

20 March 2013 – The Selectors of the Meeting Strategy Working Group (MSWG) announce the composition of the Working Group. In selecting the MSWG, multiple factors were considered including understanding ICANN's working practices, consensus-building and analytical skills and balances of geography, gender, consistency, constituency, etc…

Volunteer Working Group Member in Representation of a Supporting Organization (SO) or Advisory Committee (AC)
Candidate Gender Country Region SO/AC
Donna Austin F AU AP GNSO
Satish Babu M IN AP ALAC
Tijani Ben Jemaa M TN AF ALAC
Michelle Chaplow F UK EU GNSO
Keith Davidson M NZ AP ccNSO
Eduardo Diaz Rivera M PR NA ALAC
Paul Diaz M US NA GNSO
Tracy F. Hackshaw M TT LAC GAC
Sylvia Herlein Leite F BR LAC ALAC
Sandra Hoferichter F DE EU ALAC
Poncelet Ileleji M GM AF GNSO
Dmitry Kohmanyuk M UA EU ASO
Suzanne Murray Radell F US NA GAC
Ana Cristina Ferreira Amoroso das Neves F PT EU GAC
Douglas Onyango M UG AF ASO
Margarita Valdés Cortés F CL LAC ccNSO
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."