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Rachel Reyes

Senior Information Security Engineer

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Hedwig Ringoot

Belgium

HR Manager, EMEA

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Juan Robles

United States of America

Manager, Salesforce Solutions

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Christina Rodriguez

United States of America

Senior Director, Language Services

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Cynthia Roman

United States of America

Accounts Payable Specialist II

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Amanda Rose

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Lead

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Noah Ross

United States of America

Technical Lead, Software Engineering

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Benedetta Rossi

France

Policy Development Support Sr. Manager (GAC)

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Danielle Rutherford

United States of America

Policy and Technology Development Support Manager

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Seher Sagiroglu

Türkiye, Republic of

GSE Regional Specialist

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Yesim Saglam

Türkiye, Republic of

Policy Operations Specialist (At-Large)

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Ozan Sahin

Türkiye, Republic of

Policy Development Support Senior Specialist

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Masoud Sahraian

Staff Software Engineer, QA Automation

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Seman Said

United States of America

Software Developer - IANA Services

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Maya Saito

Meetings Project Manager

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Mert Saka

Türkiye, Republic of

GDD Accounts Senior Manager

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Zuhra Salijanova

Sr. Manager, Contractual Compliance

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Marc Salvatierra

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager 2

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Rowdy Sampietro

United States of America

Talent Acquisition Senior Manager

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Anna Sarkisyan

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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George Sarkisyan

United States of America

IANA Services Senior Specialist

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Sara Sarraf

United States of America

Executive Assistant

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Naela Sarras

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - North America

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Hina Sattar

Global Support Associate Manager

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Rodrigo Saucedo

Plurinational State of Bolivia

Strategic Initiatives - Latin America & Caribbean, Senior Manager

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Lisa Saulino

United States of America

Board Operations Specialist

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Gabriella Schittek

Poland

Global Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager – Nordic and Central Europe

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Kathy Schnitt

United States of America

Policy Operations Specialist (SSAC)

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Natalie Schoer

United States of America

Assistant Manager, Communications

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Shawn Seah

Singapore

Global Support Analyst

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Vivek SenGupta

United States of America

Senior Director, Procurement

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Giovanni Seppia

Italy

Vice President, Implementation Operations

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Jane Sexton

United States of America

Sr. Communications Specialist

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Hope Shafer

Lead Operations Analyst

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Shruti Shah

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 2

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Charla Shambley

United States of America

Sr. Manager Operations, Service Delivery & Support

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Steve Sheng

United States of America

Senior Director, Policy Development Support & Technical Community Relations

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Min Shi

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 2

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Jenn Shin

United States of America

Project Analyst

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Pamela McNeff Smith

United States of America

Review Support and Accountability Senior Coordinator

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Maya Smundak

Senior Language Expert - Head Interpreter

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Mariana Solano

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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David Soltero

United States of America

Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer

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Michael Song

United States of America

Operations Specialist III

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Neeraj Sood

United States of America

Lead Product Manager

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Darrel Spearman

Senior Director, Administrative Services & Facilities

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Raj Sripada

United States of America

Director, IT-Internal Applications

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."