[council] DRAFT text of letter from Council to Board RE: singular and plural new gTLD applications

[Novoa, Osvaldo]

I think this letter focuses on a specific case, there are other cases of one letter difference between gTLD applications that could fall in the similarity confusion.
That said, I still think that the Council should focus on wether the rules or recommendations stablished in the Guidebook were followed. If this is a case of a badly or unclearly written rule we should resign to it, too much time was dedicated to the Guidebook to try to change or revise it now.
Best regards,
Osvaldo

El 11/04/2013, a las 11:41, "john at crediblecontext.com<mailto:john at crediblecontext.com>" <john at crediblecontext.com<mailto:john at crediblecontext.com>> escribió:


All,

Here is my take on the text of a letter from Jonathan to Steve on the subject of singular and plural new gTLD applications as we agreed ought to be written and sent.

Cheers,

Berard

In the course of our meetings this week in Beijing, we have heard and share the concerns expressed about the undesirable consequences of allowing both singular and plural forms of the same word to be delegated in the news gTLD program.

On the basis of policy recommendations of the Council to avoid consumer confusion, this letter asks for clarity on why that policy was, effectively, set aside by the panelist that ICANN enrolled to conduct string similarity tests.

Specifically, in the new gTLD Report that was adopted by the GNSO Council was “Recommendation 2 Discussion -- Strings must not be confusingly similar to an existing top-level domain” (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm). The effect of singular and plurals is already embedded in practice. Note that WIPO mediation rules include this: “Words used in the singular include the plural and vice versa, as the context may require.”

At a minimum, the Council requests fuller disclosure about the process by which the panelist made their determination and why the Board accepted this variance from existing practice and gTLD policy.

Greater transparency will help the Council evaluate whether the criteria for string similarity were properly conveyed to the panelist, whether the panelist followed that policy advice and how we can address the concerns of the community.




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