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Nominating Committee | Members 2011

Non-Voting Members

Adam Peake – Chair

Jacqueline Morris – Associate Chair

Wolfgang Kleinwaechter – Advisor

Joao Damas – RSSAC Representative

Vanda Scartezini – SSAC Representative

Voting Members

Yaovi Atohoun – ALAC Representative; Africa Region

Phil Davidson – Technical Liaison Group; ITU-T Representative

Eduardo Diaz – ALAC Representative; North America Region

Maria Farrell – Non Commercial Users Constituency

Rob Hall – Registrars Stakeholder Group

Tony Holmes – ISP Constituency Representative

Yrjö Länsipuro – ALAC Representative; Europe Region

Chris Martin – Commercial and Business Users Constituency (Large)

Michael Palage – Registries Stakeholder Group

Mark Partridge – Intellectual Property Constituency

Mike Roberts – Commercial and Business Users Constituency (Small)

Jose Ovidio Salgueiro – ALAC Representative; Latin America/Caribbean Region

Giovanni Seppia – ccNSO

Henk Uijterwaal – IAB for IETF

Dr. V.C. Vivekanandan – ALAC Representative; Asia/Australia/Pacific Region

Wilfried Woeber – Address Supporting Organization Advisory Committee

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."