<div dir="ltr">Steve, Andy,<div><br></div><div style>Thanks for your excellent work on this. Just out of curiosity, has the Board or the NGPC provided any rationale for not following the GAC's advice on singular/plurals?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 December 2013 20:09, Steve DelBianco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org" target="_blank">sdelbianco@netchoice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>This is a last-gasp attempt to get an “implementation” change to prevent singular and plural TLDs for the same string. (car/cars, hotel/hotels )</div>
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<div>Andy Abrams (Google) and I drafted this to focus NGPC on something the Board just approved for IDN ccTLD Fast track. </div>
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<div>This letter closely follows the BC’s approved 29-October letter to NGPC. Therefore the Executive Committee has authorized an abbreviated review period of 7 days.</div>
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<div>Please REPLY ALL with edits or objections to sending this letter, before Friday 27-Dec-2013.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Steve DelBianco <<a href="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org" target="_blank">sdelbianco@netchoice.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 2:32 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Policy calendar for 5-Dec-2013 BC member call<br>
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<div>We asked ICANN to publish any evidence considered by expert panels, arbitration providers, and ICANN staff in its evaluation of these decisions.</div>
<div>We asked ICANN to publish specific objective criteria to judge string similarity, and allow for an appeal system where applicants can challenge prior ICDR decisions on singular-plural TLDs based on this criteria.</div>
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<div>We re-iterated those requests at the Public Forum in BA, asking if the Board shared the BC concerns. NGPC member Mike Silber replied, "Yes, several of us are very concerned about this."</div>
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