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Steve Gwon

United States

Paralegal Services Manager

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Karla Hakansson

United States

Director, Registry Services

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Daniel E. Halloran

ICANN Chief Data Protection Officer and Deputy General Counsel

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Selina Harrington

United States

IANA Lead Services Specialist

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Meghan Healy

United Kingdom

Research Analyst

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Jamie Hedlund

SVP, Contractual Compliance & Consumer Safeguard and Managing Director - Washington D.C. Office

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Julie Hedlund

United States

Policy Director, Security & Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) Support & GNSO

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Valerie Heng

Singapore

Senior Manager, Registry Services and Engagement

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Aisha Herrell

United States

Global Support Analyst II

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Aaron Hickmann

Sr. Director, GDD Operations

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Nigel Hickson

Switzerland

VP, IGO Engagement

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Andee Hill

United States

Registrar Services & Engagement Programs Director

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Angela Hillman

United States

Senior Financial Analyst III

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Marilia Hirano

United States

Manager, IANA Continuous Improvement

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Justin Ho

United States

Implementation Project Analyst

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Stacy Hoffberg

Events Sr. Manager - Los Angeles

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Paul Hoffman

United States

Principal Technologist

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Robert Hoggarth

United States

Vice President, Policy Development & GAC Relations

DNS MarketplaceDeveloping WorldGovernmentTechnology

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Elizabeth Hoover

Sr Manager, Human Resources

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Linna Hsii

United States

Counsel

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David Huberman

United States

Senior Technical Engagement Specialist

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Sarmad Hussain

IDN Programs Director

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Alex Hutson

United States

Manager, Business Analysis and Project Management

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Gustavo Lozano Ibarra

Technical Services Director

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Lauren Israel

United States

Operations Specialist III

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Fernanda Iunes

United States

Sr. Administrative Assistant

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Cecibel Izaguirre

United States

Manager, Billings

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Kevin Jaijairam

United States

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Cyrus Jamnejad

United States

Registrar Services & Engagement Manager

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Alice Jansen

Sr Project Manager, Multistakeholder Strategy & Strategic Initiatives

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Fairus Jasmin

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Specialist

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Magali Jean

Belgium

Sr GSE Administrative Assistant - EMEA

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John Jeffrey

General Counsel & Secretary

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Josh Jenkins

United States

Sr. Networking Engineer

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Joseph De Jesus

United States

Manager, Travel Support

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Aaron Jimenez

United States

Board Operations Senior Coordinator

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Gustavo Jimenez

United States

Lead Technical QA Test Engineer

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Hilary Jin

United States

Technical Writer

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Jennifer Johnson

United States

Executive Administrative Assistant

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Susie Johnson

United States

Policy Operations Sr. Specialist & Executive Assistant

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Daniel Jones

United States

Salesforce Developer

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Patrick L. Jones

United States

Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Engagement

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Jana Juginovic

United States

Senior Director, Communications & Content

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Steve Jung

United States

Sr. Accountant

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Tarek Kamel

Sr Advisor to President & SVP, Government and IGO Engagement

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Darren Kara

United States

DNS Engineering Strategy Manager

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Michael A. Karakash

United States

Senior Project Coordinator, GDD Strategic Programs

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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."