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United States of America

Sr. Manager, Contractual Compliance Risk and Audit

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

Jordan

Stakeholder Engagement Sr. Manager - Middle East

DNS Marketplace Developing World Technology

Susanna Bennett

SVP & Chief Operating Officer

Jonathan Boswell

Lead Technical Writer

United States of America

SVP & CFO

DNS Marketplace

Sr Engineering Team Lead

Turkey

gTLD Accounts Senior Manager

United States of America

Sr. Global Communications Coordinator

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

Pamela Howard MBA CPA

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Performance Measurement and Reporting

Chief Security, Stability & Resiliency Office

Developing World Technology

Saint Lucia

Stakeholder Engagement Sr Manager -The Caribbean

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Developing World Government Technology

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager

DNS Marketplace Technology

Community Staff

United States of America

Manager, IANA Continuous Improvement

General Counsel & Secretary

Patrick L. Jones

United States of America

Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Engagement

Community Staff

United States of America

Project Manager

Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Asia Pacific

United States of America

SVP, Policy Development Support

Civil Society DNS Marketplace Government Technology

Cassia Oliveira

Sr Manager, Office of the CEO

Rodrigo De La Parra

Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Latin America & Caribbean

Civil Society Engagement Sr. Manager

Associate General Counsel

United States of America

SVP Engineering & Chief Information Officer

Masoud Sahraian

Lead QA Engineer

United States of America

Lead DNS Engineer

United States of America

VP, Policy Development & At-Large Relations

United States of America

Vice President, Strategic Community Operations, Planning and Engagement

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."