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Customer Standing Committee (CSC) Members & Liaisons

The Customer Standing Committee (CSC) is comprised of representatives with direct experience and knowledge of IANA naming functions. Please refer to the CSC Candidates Qualification Requirements for details about candidate selection or the CSC Charter for the full text of the CSC scope and responsibilities.

Member

Rick Wilhelm, CSC Chair (NA) 
Appointing Organization: RySG
Term: 01 October 2024 - 30 September 2026

Pablo Rodriguez (NA)
Appointing Organization: ccNSO
Term: 01 OCtober 2024 - 20 September 2026

Maarten Simon (EU) 
Appointing Organization: ccNSO
Term: 01 October 2025 - 30 September 2027

Gordon Dick (EU)
Appointing Organization: RySG
Term: 01 October 2025 - 30 September 2027

Liaisons

Joe Abley
Appointing Organization: SSAC
Term: 01 October 2024 - 30 September 2026

Tracy Hackshaw
Appointing Organization: GAC
Term: 01 October 2024 - 30 September 2026

Hiro Hotta, CSC Vice Chair (AP)
Appointing Organization: RSSAC
Term: 01 October 2024 - 30 September 2026

John Gbadamosi
Appointing Organization: GNSO (Non-Registry)
Term: 01 October 2025 - 30 September 2026

Houda Chihi
Appointing Organization: ALAC
Term: 01 October 2025 - 30 September 2027

Selina Harrington
Appointing Organization: PTI
Term: No term limit

ASO has not appointed a liaison since October 2016

Alternates

Maarten Aertsen
Appointing Organization: SSAC
Term: 01 October 2024 - 30 September 2026

Gloria Atwine Katuuku
Appointing Organization: GAC
Term: 01 October 2024 - 30 September 2026

Anil Jain
Appointing Organization: GNSO (Non-Registry)
Term: 01 October 2025 - 30 September 2026

Daniel Migault
Appointing Organization: RSSAC
Term: 01 October 2024 - 30 September 2026

Erwin Lansing
Appointing Organization: ccNSO
Term: 01 October 2025 - 30 September 2026

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."