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Michelle DeSmyter

United States of America

Policy Operations Coordinator

United States of America

Project Manager I

United States of America

Operations Specialist

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Reviews and Stakeholder Support

Alireza Mohammadi

United States of America

Lead Software Engineer

United States of America

IANA Services Sr. Specialist

United States of America

UX Designer

United States of America

Accounts Payable Lead

United States of America

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - North America

United States of America

Sr. Events Planner

Australia

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Oceania

United States of America

Executive Assistant

Canada

GDS Technical Services Principal Engineer

United States of America

Senior Infrastructure Engineer 2

United States of America

Project Manager II

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 2

Margarita Palange

United States of America

Director, Accounting

United States of America

Event Production Manager

Sweden

Technical Engagement Manager, Europe

United States of America

Executive Assistant and Governance Coordinator

Vara Kasaraneni

United States of America

Lead Product Manager

Dimitris Zacharias

Belgium

Government and IGO Engagement Sr. Manager

Türkiye, Republic of

Regional HR Manager, Middle East and Africa

United States of America

Business Process Sr. Specialist

United States of America

GDD Services Manager

Hamid Segunmaru

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer

United States of America

Policy Development Support Sr. Specialist

Saritha Pothuraju

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 1

United States of America

Research Specialist

Singapore

Regional Office Administrator

India

Stakeholder Engagement Manager, South Asia

Belgium

Regional Office Administrator

Dinara Karimova

Belgium

Regional HR Manager, Europe

Irina Douzadjian

United States of America

Risk Management and Internal Audit Sr. Director

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer - Platforms

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 2

United States of America

GDD Services Specialist

United States of America

Temp – Office of the CFO

United States of America

Executive Assistant

Janay McWhorter

United States of America

GDS Technical Services Product Manager

Temp – Governance Support

Isabelle Colas-Adeshina

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Policy Research & Stakeholder Programs

Kurtis Lindqvist

United States of America

President and Chief Executive Officer

Spain

Principal Infrastructure Engineer - DNS

United States of America

Travel Services Sr. Planner

United States of America

Director, IANA Technical Services

United States of America

Executive Assistant

Sally Newell Cohen

United States of America

SVP, Global Communications

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."