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Athena Foo

Singapore

Stakeholder Engagement Manager, APAC

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DeAnn Ford

United States of America

Global Support Analyst I

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Camia Frank

United States of America

Operations Specialist II

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Sean Freeark

United States of America

Regional Security Director – North America, Latin America, and Caribbean

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Casandra "C.C." Furey

United States of America

Associate General Counsel

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Simon Garside

United States of America

VP, Security Operations

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Andrea Glandon

United States of America

Policy Operations Coordinator

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Paola Gloria

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer, QA Automation

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Daniel Gluck

United States of America

Policy Development Support Analyst

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Maira Gomez

Accounts Payable Lead

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Robert Gomez

United States of America

Vendor Management Specialist

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Gema Gonzalez

United States of America

Global Support Analyst I

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Ted Gonzalez

United States of America

Finance Manager

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Danielle Gordon

United States of America

GDD Services Manager

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Morgan Govaars

Manager, Service Delivery

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Jeffrey Graham

United States of America

Project Coordinator

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Jeanne Gregg

United States of America

Director, Service Delivery

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Peter Gregoris

United States of America

GDD Operations Manager

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Gisella Gruber

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Manager, Policy Development & Operations Support (At-Large)

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Leon Grundmann

Belgium

Policy Research Specialist

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Paul Guevarra

United States of America

Planning Sr Manager

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Yvette Guigneaux

United States of America

Review Support and Accountability Coordinator

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Arnt Gulbrandsen

Germany

UA Technology Senior Manager

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Nida Gumussoy

Türkiye, Republic of

Regional Office Senior Administrator

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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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Tim Guyton

United States of America

Lead Information Security Engineer

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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 Operations Manager

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JeNelle Haugen

United States of America

Quality Analyst Trainer

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Meghan Healy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Senior 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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Lauren Hejazi

United States of America

Project Manager

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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

Director, IANA Strategic Programs

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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 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."