Area of Expertise | Summary Description | Experts on the Panel |
Linguistics / Unicode | Linguistic experts in the specific languages/script, ideally with some knowledge in Unicode. | Nishit Jain, Sarmad Hussain |
Registry/Registrar Operations | gTLD and ccTLD experts familiar with registry/registrar operations and standards with WHOIS and EPP. | Dennis Tan, Jody Kolker, Naoki Kambe, Zheng Wang |
Policy | Experts knowledgeable of ICANN’s current WHOIS policy and contractual obligations | Edmon Chung, James Galvin |
Internationalized and Localization in Application | Experts knowledgeable in internationalized and localization in applications | Takao Suzuki |
Registry / Registrar Operations
Dennis Tan
Dennis is the principal point of contact for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) within the Naming Business Division at VeriSign, Inc. As product manager for Verisign, he oversees all product management activities for IDNs, including defining requirements for Verisign’s provisioning and resolution system for IDNs. Prior to joining Verisign, Dennis worked in the Telecommunications industry as well as the textile industry. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering and a MBA.
Jody Kolker
Jody joined GoDaddy in 2001 as a senior developer. He designed and developed the systems for registrar – registry interactions. He is currently focusing on the architecture of GoDaddy’s Registrar Systems and managing GoDaddy’s registrar operations team.
Naoki Kambe
Naoki is an R&D staff from Japan Registry Services Co, Ltd (JPRS). He had both operation and research experience in Whois and DNS fields. In 2004 he developed and deployed helper tools and systems for operation of JP Registry system. He was also part of the team to operate back-end databases for Whois service. He now engages in development of new gTLD Whois server for .JPRS, including modeling registration data for the new gTLD.
Zheng Wang
Zheng is the director of Joint Labs at China Organizational Name Administration Center (CONAC). He plays a crucial role in designing and building the IDN technical solution including Whois, EPP/SRS, Data Escrow, DNS, and DNSSEC systems for CONAC. He is also a leading researcher or principal investigator of several state-funded research or engineering projects on the DNS measurement, modeling and optimization. Before joining CONAC, he served as a senior researcher on DNS operations at CNNIC. He has a doctorate in computer science from Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Policy
Edmon Chung
Edmon is serving as the CEO for DotAsia Organisation and heads the secretariat for the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF). He is an inventor of patents underlying technologies for internationalized domain names (IDN) and email addresses on the Internet. Edmon has served on many global IDN related committees, including technical and policy groups, that made it possible for the introduction of multilingual domain names and email addresses on the Internet. He served as an elected GNSO Councilor from 2006 – 2010 and an elected ALAC Member from 2010-2012.
James Galvin
Dr. James Galvin is Director of Strategic Relationships and Technical Standards at Afilias, focusing on the development of strategic initiatives in all aspects of networking and the life cycle of domain names. Jim is experienced in registry and registrar operations (including WHOIS and EPP standards) as well as policy issues covering WHOIS and contractual obligations. He serves as the Vice-Chair of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC). He was the co-chair of the GNSO-SSAC Internationalized Registration Data Working Group. Jim holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware.
Unicode / Linguistics
Nishit Jain
Nishit Jain is a research staff with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the premier R&D organization for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology in India. He is involved with various projects related to Indian Languages on Digital medium, including internationalized domain names, efficient searching algorithms for Indian languages. He is also working on an Indian government project on defining Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) requirements for the 22 official languages of India.
Sarmad Hussain
Dr. Sarmad Hussain is currently a professor of Computer Science and holds the Research Chair on Multilingual Computing at Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science in Pakistan. He holds a doctoral degree in linguistics and his research is focused on linguistics, localization, language computing standards, speech processing and computational linguistics. He has been developing computing solutions for languages spoken across developing Asia, including standards for Unicode encoding, locale and collation.
Internationalization and Localization in Applications
Takao Suzuki
Takao recently joined GoDaddy as Senior Product Manager International with current focus on domains: international planning, strategy, internationalization, and localization. Prior to GoDaddy, he worked for Microsoft over 18 years as International Program Manager on various products including Internet Explorer, Windows, and Windows Live. Takao is a native Japanese.
