[council] [Ext] Re: Draft Guidance Statement on “.québec"

[Anne ICANN]

Assume you have checked with Sebastien on this since he is the one who gave
instructions to Susan and me this am to try to address an aspect of this in
the Sub Pro  IRT this morning.  Again, it's not clear that .quebec with
accent grave would be included in String Similarity Review based on the
current language.   To my mind, it's also not clear that a policy process
would be required to get the principle involving accents applied to String
Similarity Review.

I'm not sure Council should say anything more in the letter than the fact
that the issue is not within scope for the IDN WG.  Of course I defer to
Sebastien as to whether his instructions this morning have any effect  on
the content of the letter.

Anne

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 7:32 AM Ariel Liang <ariel.liang at icann.org> wrote:

> Hello Anne,
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> Thanks for the heads up.
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> The Guidance Statement focuses on whether the “.québec" issue is within
> the scope for the EPDP-IDNs Team to address. The Council agreement is that
> it is beyond scope, as the EPDP Team is tasked to develop policy
> recommendations on *variant* management mechanism (“.québec" is not a
> variant of .quebec). The request for Issue Report and the consideration for
> a dedicated PDP effort may be the appropriate path to develop an exception
> to string similarity review to tackle this specific challenge.
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> Staff’s understanding is that the Guidance Statement is unaffected.
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> Best Regards,
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> Ariel
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> *From: *Anne ICANN <anneicanngnso at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 10:13 AM
> *To: *Ariel Liang <ariel.liang at icann.org>
> *Cc: *"council at gnso.icann.org" <council at gnso.icann.org>
> *Subject: *[Ext] Re: [council] Draft Guidance Statement on “.québec"
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> Ariel - just a note that Leadership asked the Liaisons to Sub Pro to raise
> the issue in today's Sub Pro IRT discussion on draft String Similarity
> review language.  It appears that the existing draft AGB language may not
> be adequate to clarify a requirement for the inclusion of spellings with
> accents over certain letters as mandatory to the string similarity review.
> Some believe this is a policy issue and not an implementation issue.  I
> gather this will be discussed next week at Council.
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> I don't know if this affects what Leadership wants to say in the letter or
> not.  It may if Council wants to take the view that this can be addressed
> in the IRT and does not require a policy process.
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> Thank you,
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> Anne
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> Anne Aikman-Scalese
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> GNSO Councilor
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> NomCom Non-Voting 2022-2024
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> anneicanngnso at gmail.com
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> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 6:55 AM Ariel Liang via council <
> council at gnso.icann.org> wrote:
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> Dear All,
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> Given that no substantive edits or suggestions were received by EOB
> yesterday, staff will send the attached guidance statement to the EPDP-IDNs
> Team on behalf of the GNSO Council.
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> Thank you all for the review.
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> Best Regards,
>
> Ariel
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> *From: *Ariel Liang <ariel.liang at icann.org>
> *Date: *Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 1:50 PM
> *To: *"council at gnso.icann.org" <council at gnso.icann.org>
> *Subject: *Draft Guidance Statement on “.québec"
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> Dear GNSO Council,
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> Following the discussion during the August meeting
> <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Final+Proposed+Agenda+2023-08-24>
> regarding “.québec”, the GNSO Council leadership, in coordination with
> staff, developed a draft guidance statement based on the general agreement
> from the Council. This statement is in response to EPDP-IDNs Team’s request
> with regard to whether the public comments related to “.québec” are within
> its scope to address.
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> Please be so kind to review the statement attached. If no objection or
> concern is raised by any Councilor by *EOB Wednesday, 13 September*, it
> will be sent to the EPDP-IDNs Team as a formal guidance.
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> Thank you,
>
> Ariel
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> Ariel Xinyue Liang
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> Policy Development Support Manager
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> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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