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Rodrigo Saucedo Linares

Plurinational State of Bolivia

Stakeholder Engagement Director, Andean Region and LAC Strategic Initiatives

Uruguay

Senior Graphic Designer

United States of America

VP, Planning

United States of America

Policy Operations Specialist (SSAC)

United States of America

IT Business Analytics and Intranet Services Sr. Manager

Canada

VP, Technical Engagement

Eduardo Alvarez

United States of America

Director, Technical Services Operations

France

Distinguished Technologist

United States of America

Sr. Program Manager

Amanda Fessenden

United States of America

VP, GDD Accounts and Services

United States of America

Web Content Strategy Senior Director

United States of America

Lead Software Engineer

United States of America

Senior Procurement Analyst

Catherine Maleki

United States of America

Sr. Counsel

United States of America

Counsel

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Specialist

Margaret Benavides

United States of America

Planning Manager

Belgium

VP, New gTLD Program Lead

United States of America

Writer

United States of America

Writer

United States of America

Project Manager

United States of America

Editorial Supervisor

United States of America

Sr. Counsel

United States of America

Quality Analyst Trainer

David Prangnell

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer - Platforms

United States of America

HRIS Senior Manager

United States of America

Senior Program Manager, Policy Development Support

Odeline MacDonald

Belgium

Associate General Counsel, European Data Protection

United States of America

Policy Operations Senior Coordinator

Maritza Alarcon

United States of America

Operations Specialist

Daniel Ramcharan

United States of America

Manager, Service Delivery

Brian Villaroman

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Specialist

Amenah Alhakeem

Türkiye, Republic of

Senior Communications Coordinator, EMEA

United States of America

Assistant Manager, Communications

United States of America

Technical Lead, Software Engineering

United States of America

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer 1

Gökhan Pamukçu

Türkiye, Republic of

Contractual Compliance Analyst

United States of America

Senior Information Security Engineer 2

Janelle McAlister

United States of America

Strategic Initiatives Senior Program Manager

United States of America

Global Support Analyst I

Belgium

Policy Research Specialist

United States of America

Sr Product Manager 1

United States of America

Operations Specialist

Belgium

Policy Research Specialist

Jessica Villaseñor

United States of America

Sr. Manager, GDS Research Services

United States of America

GDS Technical Services Principal Engineer

United States of America

Security Operations Specialist

Singapore

Contractual Compliance 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."