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Senior Director, Communications & Content

United States

Sr. Accountant

Sr Advisor to President & SVP, Government and IGO Engagement

United States

DNS Engineering Strategy Manager

United States

Security Intelligence Manager

Nichole Kennedy

United States

Travel Support Assistant

United States

Contractual Compliance Specialist

Staff Community

United States

Project Manager I

United States

Contractual Compliance Specialist

United States

VP, Board Operations

Tanzanica S. King

United States

Sr. Manager, Meeting Strategy and Design

Turkey

Meeting External Relations Sr. Manager

United States

Organizational Change Manager

Vinciane Koenigsfeld

Board Training & Content Sr. Manager

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

Costa Rica

VP, Policy Development Support - GNSO

Pitinan Kooarmornpatana

Thailand

IDN Programs Manager

Alexandra Kulikova

Russian Federation

Head of Global Stakeholder Engagement, Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Analyst

Dr. Richard Lamb

Sr. Program Manager DNSSEC

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

Janice Douma Lange

United States

DPRD Fellowship and Newcomer Engagement Manager

United States

VP Research

Associate General Counsel

United States

Operations & Policy Research Principal

Manager, Admin Support

United States

Sr. Technologist

Registrar Services Senior Manager, APAC

DNS Marketplace Technology

Ariel Xinyue Liang

United States

Policy Analyst

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Specialist

Director, Contractual Compliance

United States

GDD Communications Manager

Global Human Resources Business Partner

Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Asia Pacific

Director, EMEA Communications

Terry Manderson

Director, DNS Operations

Antonietta Mangiacotti

Lead Researcher

Richard Mannino

United States

Operations Specialist II

Turkey

Contractual Compliance Specialist

DNS Marketplace Developing World Technology

Karthika Marati

QA Test Automation Engineer

United States

President and CEO

Mariana Marinho

United States

DPRD Sr. Program Manager

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

United States

Vice-President, UN Engagement - New York

Civil Society Developing World Government Technology

United States

Sr. Information Security Engineer

Executive Assistant to President, Global Domains Division

Andrew McConachie

United States

Technical & Policy Manager

United States

Director, Security IANA Services

United States

Legal Counsel

Nanig Mehranian

United States

Program Manager, New gTLD Subsequent Procedures

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."