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Jamie Hedlund

SVP, Global Government Engagement and Compliance

United States of America

Biography

Jamie Hedlund is Senior Vice President, Global Government Engagement and Contractual Compliance for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Jamie joined ICANN in 2010 with broad experience in public policy, business development, and compliance. He most recently served as Senior Vice President, Contractual Compliance, where he established the vision and strategic direction for a globally distributed team charged with enforcing ICANN’s agreements with generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators and registrars. Throughout Jamie’s 15-year tenure, he also has led ICANN’s engagement with the U.S. Government, building trusted relationships with key government stakeholders and successfully executing ICANN’s public policy objectives.

Prior to joining ICANN, Jamie served in several senior-level positions where he developed and implemented strategies to achieve technology, telecommunications, and intellectual property goals. His previous experience includes roles such as Vice President for Regulatory Affairs at the Consumer Electronics Association, Director of Public Policy at Yahoo!, Senior Corporate Counsel for Federal Government Affairs at T-Mobile, Director, Business Development and Chief of Staff at Level 3 Communications and Senior Attorney for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Jamie holds a juris doctorate from Tulane University and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. He is fluent in Spanish and French. He lives in Los Angeles, CA and has three children.

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."