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Motion to Approve Supplemental Recommendations for the Non-Adopted Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluation SubPro Recommendations

Submitted by: Paul McGrady

Seconded by: 

WHEREAS,

1. The GNSO CounciladoptedtheFinal Reportof the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro) PDP on 18 February 2021.
2. On 16 March 2023, the ICANN Board adopted the majority of the SubPro Outputs, as identified inSection A of the Scorecard, while designating a select set of recommendations as pending, identified inSection Bof the Scorecard.
3. The GNSO Council established a small team to carefully review the pending SubPro recommendations and identify the best path forward to seek to resolve the issues that were preventing Board adoption of the pending recommendations.
4. Leveraging the small team, the GNSO Council was able to address the vast majority of pending recommendations, through a combination of dialogue with the ICANN Board, issuing two Clarifying Statements, and adopting several Supplemental Recommendations during its April 2024 meeting.
5. During the Council's April 2024 meeting, the Council elected to pursue further amendments to the Supplemental Recommendations related to Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluations, and accordingly, removed the relevant Supplemental Recommendations from consideration. 
6. The Small Team Plus was reconvened to consider a draft proposal put forth by ICANN org to allow for singular and plurals of the same word in the same language to be identified.
7. The Small Team Plus has since developed Supplemental Recommendations that both allow for the identification of singular and plurals of the same word in the same language, but also introduces a mechanism that may allow for the singular and plurals to coexist if certain circumstances are fulfilled.
8. On [date], the Supplemental Recommendations regarding Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluations were shared with the GNSO Council.

RESOLVED,

1. The GNSO Council approves the Supplemental Recommendations for the non-adopted SubPro recommendations related to Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluations and instructs the GNSO Secretariat to transmit the Supplemental Recommendations to the ICANN Board.