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Michael A. Karakash

United States of America

Senior Project Coordinator, GDD Strategic Programs

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Olly Kay

United States of America

Security Intelligence Manager

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May Kim

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Specialist

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Steven Kim

United States of America

Project Manager

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Jia Kimoto

United States of America

Project Manager I

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Jin Kimoto

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Specialist

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Tanzanica S. King

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Meeting Strategy and Design

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Erhan Kiraner

Turkey

Meeting External Relations Sr. Manager

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Vinciane Koenigsfeld

Luxembourg

Senior Director, Board Operations

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Marika Konings

Costa Rica

VP, Policy Development Support - GNSO

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Pitinan Kooarmornpatana

Thailand

IDN Programs Manager

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Alexandra Kulikova

Russian Federation

Head of Global Stakeholder Engagement, Eastern Europe and Central Asia

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Matt Larson

United States of America

VP Research

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Elizabeth Le

Associate General Counsel

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Karen Lentz

United States of America

Senior Director, Policy Research & Data Services

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Karen Lettner

Administrative Support Manager

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Edward Lewis

United States of America

Sr. Technologist

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Howard Li

China

gTLD Accounts Senior Manager

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Ariel Xinyue Liang

United States of America

GNSO Policy Support Specialist

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Charmaine Lim

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Roger Lim

Director, Contractual Compliance

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Sabrina Lim

Singapore

GSE Programs Manager

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Celine Lioe

Singapore

Regional Office Administrator

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Siôn Lloyd

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Lead Security, Stability, & Resiliency Specialist

Technology

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Angelina Lopez

United States of America

GDD Communications Manager

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Daniela Campos Lopez

United States of America

Communications Coordinator

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Jia Rong Low

Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Asia Pacific

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Mauro Lozano

United States of America

Technical Services Sr. Manager

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Luna Madi

Director, EMEA Communications

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Vera Major

Switzerland

Government and IGO Engagement Manager

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Terry Manderson

Sr. Director, Security and Network Engineering

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Antonietta Mangiacotti

Lead Researcher

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Richard Mannino

United States of America

Operations Specialist II

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Selim Manzak

Turkey

Contractual Compliance Specialist

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Karthika Marati

QA Test Automation Engineer

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Göran Marby

United States of America

President and CEO

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Mariana Marinho

United States of America

Public Responsibility Support Sr. Program Manager

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Veni Markovski

United States of America

Vice-President, UN Engagement - New York

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Brian Martin

United States of America

Sr. Information Security Engineer

Technology

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Andrew McConachie

Netherlands

Policy & Technology Sr. Manager

Technology

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Rachel McFadyen

United States of America

Writer/Editor

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David McGill

United States of America

Legal Counsel

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Mehdi

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Nanig Mehranian

United States of America

Program Manager, New gTLD Subsequent Procedures

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Melissa

United States of America

Conflict Resolution Specialist

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Aline Menezes

United States of America

Systems Engineer

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Henry Meyer

United States of America

Senior Director, Global HR Operations

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Diana Middleton

United States of America

Multistakeholder Strategy and Strategic Initiatives Project Manager

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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."