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Pierinna Bocca Diaz

United States of America

Operations Specialist

United States of America

Senior Travel Services Planner

Sabrina Tanamal

United States of America

IANA Services Lead Specialist

United States of America

Policy Development Support Manager (GNSO)

Australia

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Oceania

Selina Harrington

United States of America

IANA Operations Manager

Shaunte Anderson

United States of America

IANA Risk & Audit Compliance Manager

United States of America

Executive Assistant

United States of America

Next Round Program Development Sr. Director

Zuhra Salijanova

Türkiye, Republic of

Sr. Manager, Contractual Compliance

Uruguay

Communications Coordinator, Americas

Canada

GDS Technical Services Principal Engineer

United States of America

Senior Infrastructure Engineer 2

United States of America

Project Manager II

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 2

United States of America

Associate General Counsel

Margarita Palange

United States of America

Director, Accounting

United States of America

Event Production Manager

United States of America

Social Media Specialist

Netherlands

Policy Development Support Manager (GNSO)

George Sarkisyan

United States of America

GDD Services Manager

United States of America

Business Process Specialist

Türkiye, Republic of

Event Planner

Belgium

Next Round Program Team Sr. Coordinator

Türkiye, Republic of

Director, Event Planning and Stakeholder Relations

Türkiye, Republic of

Policy Operations Specialist (At-Large)

Casey Humphreville

United States of America

Vendor Management Specialist

United States of America

GDD Services Manager

United States of America

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Sweden

Regional Technical Engagement Manager

United States of America

Compensation Specialist TEMP

United States of America

Executive Assistant-TEMP

Pitinan Kooarmornpatana

Thailand

IDN Programs Sr. Manager

United States of America

Billing, Accounts Receivable and Collections Specialist II

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 1

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer

United States of America

Copywriter

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Specialist

United States of America

Project Specialist & Executive Assistant

United States of America

VP, Planning

Singapore

Global Support Analyst III

Netherlands

Policy Development Support Senior Analyst

Fabien Betremieux

United States of America

Policy Development Support Director (GAC)

United States of America

Senior Manager, GDD Services

Vara Kasaraneni

United States of America

Lead Product Manager

Dimitris Zacharias

Belgium

Government and IGO Engagement Sr. Manager

Türkiye, Republic of

Regional HR Manager, Middle East and Africa

United States of America

Business Process Sr. Specialist

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."