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Joseph De Jesus

United States of America

Director, Global Travel

Benin

Technical Engagement Manager, MEA Region

Franco Larios Carrasco

Germany

Board Operations Manager

United States of America

Sr Technical Lead - Software Engineering

United States of America

Temp – Global Stakeholder Engagement

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Specialist

Lynette Caraway

United States of America

Temp – Contractual Compliance

United States of America

SVP, Global Human Resources

United States of America

GDD Services Senior Manager

Aruna Surampudi

United States of America

Contracted Resource - TEMP

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager 2

Singapore

Technical Engagement Manager - APAC

Netherlands

Stakeholder Engagement Sr. Manager

Türkiye, Republic of

Contractual Compliance Analyst

United States of America

Sr Technical Lead- Software Engineering

United States of America

Contracted Resource - TEMP

United States of America

VP, Security Operations and Administrative Services

United States of America

Meetings Technical Services Sr. Manager

United States of America

New gTLD Program Senior Manager

Belgium

New gTLD Program Manager

Iwan de Fluiter

Italy

Regional Security Director - Europe, Middle East, and Africa

United States of America

IANA Services Specialist

Community Staff

Belgium

VP, Policy Development & GAC Relations

Belgium

New gTLD Program Sr. Coordinator

United States of America

New gTLD Program Sr. Director

United States of America

Policy Development Support Manager (GNSO)

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."