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Jonathan Denison

Manager, Contractual Compliance

Jean-Baptiste Deroulez

Belgium

MSSI Associate Project Manager

Sr. Salesforce Business Anaylst

Director Quality Assurance

Chantelle Doerksen

United States

SO/AC Collaboration Services Sr. Coordinator

Language Expert - Head Interpreter

United States

Systems Engineer

United States

Sr. Salesforce Developer & Integrator

Philippines

Cryptographic Key Manager

Sr. Manager, IT PMO

United States

Principal Technologist

Brandon Edwards

IT System Analyst

United States

Sr. Product Manager

DNS Marketplace Technology

Senior Administrative Lead

Principal Software Engineer

Samantha Eisner

Deputy General Counsel

United States

Office of the General Counsel Sr. Manager

Developing World Government Technology

United States

Stakeholder Engagement Measurement & Planning Sr. Manager

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

United States

End User Support

Egypt

Policy Manager

United States

Technical Editor/Writer

Evin Ashley Erdoğdu

Turkey

SO/AC Secretariat Operations Coordinator

Civil Society Developing World Government Technology

Mauricio Vergara Ereche

United States

Lead DNS Engineer

Civil Society Technology

United States

Implementation Project Manager

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

Deborah Escalera

United States

Program Manager Public Responsibility Support

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Middle East

Belgium

Sr. End User Support

Negar Farzinnia

United States

Director, MSSI Technical Reviews & Review Implementation

Amanda Fessenden

United States

Registry Services & Engagement Manager

United States

Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture

Brazil

Stakeholder Engagement, Sr Manager - Brazil

Audrey Fery Forgues

United States

Global Communications Coordinator

United States

Manager, Security Operations

Casandra "C.C." Furey

United States

Associate General Counsel

Alex Gaganashvili

United States

Sr. Systems DevOps Engineer

United States

VP, Security Operations

VP, IANA & Technical Operations

United States

VP, Product Management

DNS Marketplace Developing World Technology

Accounts Payable Lead

United States

Operations Specialist II

United States

Director, Registrar Services & Engagement

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

Operations Specialist II

United States

Sr. Manager, GDD Operations

United States

Sr. Manager, GDD Operations

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

United States

Business Operations Analyst III

United Kingdom

Manager, Operations Support, ALAC-At Large

Yvette Guigneaux

United States

Projects & Operations Assistant, MSSI

Civil Society Developing World Government Technology

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."