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Wil Tan is a technologist and entrepreneur with keen interests in Internet architecture, identity, internationalization, and security. He specializes in DNS, IDN, and large-scale highly available systems.

He is the co-founder and CTO of Cloud Registry, a gTLD registry technical and operational services provider based in Sydney, Australia.

Previously at NeuStar, he spearheaded the IDN efforts in the registry group and implemented IDN support with an advanced bundling framework in the company’s registry systems. He also designed and implemented the internationalization support in NeuStar’s eXtensible Resource Identifier (XRI) registry.

Mr. Tan frequently contributes to industry and standardization fora such as ICANN, IETF and OASIS. As an avid open source advocate, he was instrumental to the IDN support in the Firefox browser, and was chief architect of the ISC IDN open source project.