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Singapore

Head of Communications, APAC

Caitlin Tubergen

United States of America

Policy Development Support Director (GNSO)

United States of America

VP, Policy Development and At-Large Relations

Senior Language Expert - Head Interpreter

Peru

Policy Development Support Senior Manager (At Large Regional Affairs)

Australia

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Oceania

Russell Weinstein

United States of America

VP, GDD Accounts and Services

United States of America

Vice President, Strategic Policy Management

United States of America

Planning Senior Manager

William Ziemniak

United States of America

Facilities Assistant Manager

VP, Reviews Operations and Accountability

Liane Champagne

United States of America

Lead Product Manager

Türkiye, Republic of

GDD Accounts Senior Manager

China

GDD Programs Director

United States of America

Senior Technologist

United States of America

VP, Public Responsibility

Senior Information Security Engineer

Türkiye, Republic of

GDD Accounts Senior Manager

United States of America

Project Manager I

Singapore

Sr. HR Manager, APAC

Türkiye, Republic of

Policy Development Support Senior Specialist

Vinciane Koenigsfeld

Luxembourg

VP-Board Operations

Mariana Marinho

United States of America

Public Responsibility Program Director

Pakistan

Sr Director IDN & UA Programs

United States of America

VP, Strategic Projects & Back Office Systems

Charmayne Adams

Senior Payroll Administrator

Global Support Associate Manager

United States of America

Director- Policy Research & Stakeholder Programs

Singapore

GDD Accounts Senior Manager

Fabien Betremieux

France

Policy Development Support Director (GAC)

Stephanie Moench

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Global Support

United States of America

Policy Operations Specialist (GNSO)

Community Staff

United States of America

Director, IANA Strategic Programs

United States of America

Project Specialist and Executive Assistant

United States of America

Vice President, Planning

Civil Society Engagement Sr. Manager

United States of America

GDD Accounts Manager

Singapore

Senior Accountant, APAC

United States of America

Policy Operations Specialist (SSAC)

United States of America

Infrastructure Architect

United States of America

IT Business Analytics and Intranet Services Senior Manager

Canada

VP, Technical Engagement

Eduardo Alvarez

United States of America

Director, Technical Services Operations

France

Distinguished Technologist

United States of America

Senior Localization Program Manager

Victor Figueroa Vazquez

United States of America

Technical Services Senior Manager

United States of America

Technical Lead, Software Engineering

Karla Hakansson

United States of America

GDD Programs 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."