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Larisa Gurnick

VP, Reviews Operations and Accountability

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Anna Guseva

United States of America

Program Director - E&IT

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Brian Gutterman

United States of America

Senior Program Manager

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Steve Gwon

United States of America

Paralegal Services Manager

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Karla Hakansson

United States of America

GDD Programs Director

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Daniel E. Halloran

ICANN Chief Data Protection Officer and Deputy General Counsel

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Selina Harrington

United States of America

IANA Lead Services Specialist

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Meghan Healy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Research Specialist

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Jamie Hedlund

United States of America

SVP, Contractual Compliance & U.S. Government Engagement

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Julie Hedlund

United States of America

Policy Development Support Director (GNSO)

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Valerie Heng

Singapore

GDD Accounts Senior Manager

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Aisha Herrell

United States of America

Global Support Analyst II

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Aaron Hickmann

United States of America

Senior Director, Operations Service Delivery and Support

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Andee Hill

United States of America

Director, GDD Accounts

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Marilia Hirano

United States of America

Manager, IANA Continuous Improvement

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Justin Ho

United States of America

Implementation Project Analyst

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Stacy Hoffberg

Sr. Manager Events – Los Angeles

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Paul Hoffman

United States of America

Distinguished Technologist

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Lars Hoffmann

Belgium

Senior Director Policy Research and Stakeholder Programs

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Robert Hoggarth

United States of America

VP, Policy Development and GAC Relations

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Elizabeth Hoover

United States of America

Global Human Resources Operations Senior Manager

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Linna Hsii

United States of America

Counsel

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David Huberman

United States of America

Technical Engagement Manager

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Sarmad Hussain

Pakistan

Sr Director IDN & UA Programs

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Alex Hutson

United States of America

Program Manager

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Gustavo Lozano Ibarra

Technical Services Director

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Lauren Israel

United States of America

Operations Specialist III

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Fernanda Iunes

United States of America

Program Coordinator

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Cecibel Izaguirre

United States of America

Manager, Billing Operations

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Cyrus Jamnejad

United States of America

GDD Accounts Manager

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Alice Jansen

Belgium

Implementation Operations Senior Manager

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Magali Jean

Belgium

Regional Office Administrator

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John Jeffrey

General Counsel & Secretary

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Josh Jenkins

United States of America

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Network

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Joseph De Jesus

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Travel Support

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Aaron Jimenez

United States of America

Board Operations Specialist

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Gustavo Jimenez

United States of America

Sr. Lead Software Engineer, QA

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Hilary Jin

United States of America

Sr. Business Analyst

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Annie Johnson

United States of America

Global Compensation and Benefits Director

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Jennifer Johnson

United States of America

Program Coordinator

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Sheila Johnson

United States of America

Deputy General Counsel

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Susie Johnson

United States of America

Policy Operations Senior Specialist and Executive Assistant

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Daniel Jones

United States of America

Salesforce Engineer 2- Salesforce

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Patrick L. Jones

United States of America

Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Engagement

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Jana Juginovic

United States of America

Senior Director, Communications & Content

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Steve Jung

United States of America

Senior Accountant

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Darren Kara

United States of America

Manager, Network and DNS Infrastructure

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Michael Karakash

United States of America

Policy Research Specialist

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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."