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Thomas Moore

GDD Services Manager

United States of America

Biography

Tom Moore leads cross-functional projects, defines and documents service requirements for registry operators and registrars, manages the life cycle of those services in collaboration with various departments, and supports Consensus Policy implementation as a subject matter expert.

Tom holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of California, San Diego and a Bachelor’s in Global Affairs from George Mason University. Prior to joining ICANN, he worked for the State of Washington helping to improve their policymaking process. Prior to his work with the State, he worked for the American Red Cross for over eight years, designing and implementing high-importance projects for the Service to the Armed Forces department.

He enjoys reading, winning his Fantasy Football leagues, watching and playing ice hockey. Tom lives in Downtown LA where he is always seeking new restaurants to try with his wife and young daughter.

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."