Ram Mohan

Ram Mohan is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias Limited."'Afilias, based in Ireland with offices in the US, Canada, India, UK and Germany, is the registry operator for the .info and .aero domains, the registry services provider for the .org, .mobi and .asia domains, India's .in domain and 10 other sovereign country domains (ccTLDs)."'Ram is a recognized expert in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), the effort to make domain names work in scripts and languages other than ASCII/English. He was a co-author of the [http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-14nov05.htm IDN Guidelines] that have been widely adopted by registries worldwide, and has authored, edited or reviewed the majority of ICANN IDN technical and policy documents. He is a member of the IDN President's Advisory Committee. He chaired the ICANN Working Group on IDNs. He was an invited expert to the ICANN Reserved Names Working Group. He now chairs the Security and Stability Advisory Committee [http://www.icann.org/committees/security/ SSAC] IDN Study Group.

Ram is one of the founding members of the ICANN Security & Stability Committee (SSAC), and the ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom). He has served on the ICANN Whois task force, and is a member of the [http://www.dnssec-deployment.org DNSSEC-Deployment] Working Group.

Ram Mohan sits on several W3C (World Wide Web consortium) steering committees, is involved in the Mobile Web Intiative and Internationalization efforts of the W3C.

Ram is involved in the [http://www.panl10n.net/english/index.htm Pan Localisation] project, a regional initiative to develop local language computing capacity in Asia, and is a co-author of a chapter on Internationalization in a forthcoming book on Asian languages.

Ram is Afilias' representative to the [http://www.unicode.org Unicode consortium] , a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards. He participates in the Unicode South Asian languages working group.

An active public speaker, Ram Mohan has delivered speeches on Internet Security, Cybercrime, DDOS Attacks, Multilingualization, Digital Divide, IDNs, DNSSEC and Whois. He sits on the boards of various educational and leadership non-profit organizations in North America and Asia. A full profile of Ram Mohan is available at [http://www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan Ram Mohan-LinkedIn] .

Ram is also involved in funding early stage entrepreneurs through Charter membership in TiE, a global network of entrepreneurs & professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship.

Ram Mohan is the name that is framed by combining names of HINDU Gods RAMA and MOHAN (which also is the other name of Krishna), although in the case of this Ram Mohan, "Ram" is really an abbreviation of his longer Indian name, Cedarampattu, which is a homonym of his home town in [http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/wgmaps/wg-india-1807-400x300.gifSouth India] , [http://www.india9.com/i9show/69991.htm Sedarampattu] .