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ICANN71 Fellowship Participants - 2021 June Virtual Policy Forum

Photo of Fellowship Participants from ICANN 71
Photo of Fellowship Participants from ICANN 71

 

Name Country or region of residence Working sector and/or area of interest
Abdalmonem Galila Egypt, Arab Republic of Academia, ccTLD Operations, Security, Technical – Recipient of Tarek Kamel Fellowship Recognition
Bonface Witaba Kenya Civil Society, Internet End User, Technical
Bukola Oronti Nigeria Academia, Internet End User
Hanan Khatib Jordan Internet End User
Jacob Odame-Baiden Ghana Civil Society, Intellectual Property, Internet End User
Judith Samantha Tchimmoe Fezeu Cameroon Intellectual Property
Katarine Gevorgyan Armenia ccTLD Operations
Oreoluwa Abiodun Lesi Nigeria Civil Society
Rocio Agustina de la Fuente Argentina ccTLD Operations
Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah Pakistan Academia, Government or Intergovernmental Organization, Internet End User

Note: All information above is self-reported by applicants.

Mentors:

  • Alejandra Reynoso Barral – ccNSO
  • Amr Elsadr – GNSO
  • Mistura Aruna – GAC
  • Rao Naveed Bin Rais – RSSAC
  • Alfredo Calderon – At-Large
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."