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This makes no sense(s) and is a complete(s) travesty(ies).
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<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: [bc-gnso] BC comment on singular plural
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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top">Ridiculous.<br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone</td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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Andy Abrams <abrams@google.com>; <br>
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Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org>; <br>
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bc - GNSO list <bc-gnso@icann.org>; <br>
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Re: [bc-gnso] BC comment on singular plural <br>
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<td valign="top"><div dir="ltr">Update: the first singular-plural decisions have come in.<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> Both singular-plural decisions have gone </span><i style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">against </i><font face="arial, sans-serif">a finding of string confusion (our car/cars objection against Donuts, and a Hotel Top-Level-Domain S.a.r.l. v. Booking.com B.V. for hotel/hotels). In the car/cars decision, the Panel stated: "</font><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;">It is true that </span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div>
the ICANN visual similarity standards appear quite narrow, but it is not the role [of] this Panel to substitute for ICANN’s expert technical findings." <font face="arial, sans-serif">In the hotel/hotels decision, the Panel similarly stated: "I find persuasive the degrees of similarity or dissimilarity between the strings by use of the String Similarity Assessment Tool, that ICANN did not put the applications for .HOTEL and .HOTELS in the same contention set." In other words, the early results suggest that the ICDR may give complete deference to ICANN's earlier refusal to essentially find any instances of string confusion, no matter how close the strings.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Andy</font></div></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Steve DelBianco <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">sdelbianco@netchoice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Here's what we just told the Board at the Public Forum, on behalf of the BC</div>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">ICANN’s String Similarity Panel was to place into contention sets any strings that create a possibility of user
confusion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">But in late February ICANN published contention sets that did NOT include 24 pairs of singular-plural forms of the
same string (English and Spanish) <span> </span>Sport(s) Loan(s)
<span> </span>Web(s) <span> </span><span> </span>Game(s)<span>
</span>Hotel(es)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">Risks of allowing both singular and plural TLDs for the same word are
<u>well understood</u>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">-confusion<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">-precedent for the
<i>next</i> round<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">-ICANN looking pretty ridiculous<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">What’s
<u>not understood</u> is how it happened and what we can do about it.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">First response is to ask if the panelist follow GNSO Policy on confusingly similar.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">Second response is “Chong”<span>
</span>( Chinese for “Do-over” )<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">-Do-over on just these 24 pairs
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">- WIPO Mediation Rules, Article 1 says, “Words used in the singular include the plural and vice versa, as the
context may require.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">Guess we could correct the Guidebook (plurals
<u>are</u> confusingly similar)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">String Confusion Objections on 7 of these pairs are in the hands of the ICDR rightnow.<span>
</span>If ICSR does the right thing and finds these pairs <u>should</u> be contention sets, The Board can apply this rule to ALL 24 pairs
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">Failing that, there’s Formal Reconsideration.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">We all worry about threat from inter-governmental groups just waiting for ICANN to stumble.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">We have enough vulnerability to stumble with so many unknowns in the new gTLD launch.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">No need to add to our vulnerability with this self-inflicted wound<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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