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Jia-Juh Kimoto

United States of America

Project Manager I

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Marc Salvatierra

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager 2

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Natalie Schoer

United States of America

Creative Services Manager

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Xavier Calvez

United States of America

SVP, Planning & Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

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Laura Bengford

United States of America

Director, Relationship & Delivery Management

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Patrick Jones

United States of America

VP, Global Stakeholder Engagement

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Daniel Halloran

United States of America

Deputy General Counsel and Chief Data Protection Officer

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Christina Rodriguez

United States of America

Sr. Director, Language Services

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Eleeza Agopian

United States of America

Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

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Steve Allison

United States of America

Director, Relationship & Delivery Management

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Francisco Arias

United States of America

VP, GDS Technical Services

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Yaovi Atohoun

Benin

Stakeholder Engagement & Operations Director - Africa

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Connor Barthold

United States of America

Lead Information Security Engineer

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Fahd Batayneh

Jordan

Stakeholder Engagement Director- Middle East

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Andrea Beccalli

Portugal

Stakeholder Engagement Senior Director- Europe

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Amy Bivins

United States of America

Sr. Counsel

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Michelle Bright

United States of America

Board Content Coordination Director

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Gwen Carlson

United States of America

Sr. Director, GDD Communications

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Joe Catapano

United States of America

Stakeholder Engagement Director - North America & Global Academia

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Steve Chan

United States of America

VP, Policy Development Support & GNSO Relations

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Dennis Chang

United States of America

GDD Programs Director

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Julia Charvolen

France

Policy Operations Manager (GAC)

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Carlos Chavoya

United States of America

Manager, Service Delivery

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Chhun Chy

United States of America

Sr Product Manager 1

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Sally Costerton

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Sr. Advisor to President & SVP, Global Stakeholder Engagement

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John Crain

United States of America

SVP & Chief Technology Officer

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Melanie Brennan

United States of America

GDD Accounts Senior Manager

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Pierre Dandjinou

Benin

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Africa

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Albert Daniels

Saint Lucia

Stakeholder Engagement Sr. Manager - Caribbean

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Alexandra Dans

Uruguay

Communications Director, the Americas

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Kim Davies

United States of America

VP, IANA Services & President, PTI

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Rodrigo De La Parra

Mexico

VP, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Latin America & Caribbean

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Jonathan Denison

United States of America

Sr. Director, Contractual Compliance

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Jessie Doherty

United States of America

Senior Language Expert - Head Interpreter

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Harel Efraim

Israel

Principal Software Architect

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Sam Eisner

United States of America

Deputy General Counsel

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Baher Esmat

Türkiye, Republic of

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Middle East & Managing Director MEA

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Sean Freeark

United States of America

Regional Security Director - North America, Latin America, and Caribbean

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Morgan Govaars

United States of America

Manager, Service Delivery

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Peter Gregoris

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Vendor Management

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Steve Gwon

United States of America

Paralegal Services Senior Manager

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Liz Hoover

United States of America

Global Human Resources Operations Director

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John Jeffrey

United States of America

General Counsel and Secretary

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Susie Johnson

United States of America

Policy Operations Sr. Specialist & Executive Assistant

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Liz Le

United States of America

Deputy General Counsel

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Karen Lentz

United States of America

VP Policy Research & Stakeholder Programs

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Roger Lim

Singapore

Sr. Director, Contractual Compliance, and Deputy Managing Director (MD), APAC

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Gustavo Lozano Ibarra

United States of America

Senior Director, Technical Services

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."