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Charmayne Adams

Senior Payroll Administrator

United States of America

Policy Operations Specialist (GNSO)

United States of America

Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives

United States of America

Senior Manager, Contractual Compliance Risk and Audit

Brian Aitchison

United States of America

Research Manager

United States of America

Senior Product Manager - IANA

Benin

Technical Engagement Specialist

Turkey

Lead Global Support Analyst

Canada

VP, Technical Engagement

United States of America

Procurement Analyst

Sawsan Aldawodi

United States of America

Senior Language Expert - Head Interpreter

Melissa Peters Allgood

United States of America

Conflict Resolution Specialist

United States of America

Lead Product Manager

Eduardo Alvarez

United States of America

Technical Services Director

United States of America

Infrastructure Architect

Shaunte Anderson

United States of America

Audit & Operations Program Manager

United States of America

Public Responsibility Program Manager

Mikhail Anisimov

Russian Federation

ICANN Senior Stakeholder Engagement Manager Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Charlotte Anongos

United States of America

Software Engineer 2 - Salesforce

Nicolás Antoniello

Uruguay

Regional Technical Engagement Manager

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Principal Research Scientist

Francisco Arias

United States of America

Senior Director, GDS Technical Services

Stakeholder Engagement and Operations Director - Africa

Nick Axelrod-McLeod

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Specialist

Turkey

Global Support Analyst II

United States of America

IANA Operations Manager

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Policy Operations Sr. Coordinator

Netherlands

Policy Development Support Senior Manager (GNSO)

United States of America

Director, Strategic Initiatives

United States of America

Payroll Specialist

Connor Barthold

Senior Information Security Engineer

United States of America

Meeting Production Operations Director

Jordan

Stakeholder Engagement Sr. Manager - Middle East

United States of America

Director, Meeting Planning Operations

Andrea Beccalli

Portugal

Stakeholder Engagement Senior Director- Europe

Margaret Benavides

United States of America

Senior Planning Analyst

United States of America

Director, Relationship & Delivery Management

Fabien Betremieux

France

Policy Development Support Director (GAC)

United States of America

Senior Accountant

United States of America

Policy Operations Sr. Coordinator (GNSO)

United States of America

Sr. Counsel

United States of America

Lead Product Manager

Sr Director, ccNSO Policy Development Support

Germany

Policy Development Support Senior Manager (ccNSO)

Melanie Brennan

United States of America

Meetings Project Manager

Community Staff

United States of America

Program Manager

United States of America

Policy Operations Coordinator

Michelle Bright

Board Content Coordination Director

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."