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It is not clear how this can be fixed at this time, but proceeding with no change is either going to unfairly disadvantage some applicants and their target markets or cause certain user confusion.

The ALAC advises the Board to review not only the obvious

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case of .cam/com where conflicting objection

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decisions have forced such review, but

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to review the objection decision system with multiple panels that led to inconsistency and determine a viable way forward which will not create contention sets where it is unwarranted, nor delegate multiple TLDs destined to ensure user confusion and implicit loss of faith in the DNS.

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ALAC Advice to the ICANN Board

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It is not clear how this can be fixed at this time, but proceeding with no change is either going to unfairly disadvantage some applicants and their target markets or cause certain user confusion.

The ALAC advises the Board to review not only the obvious cases such as .cam/com where conflicting objection decision have forced such review, but the general case and determine a viable way forward which will not create contention sets where it is unwarranted, nor delegate multiple TLDs destined to ensure user confusion and implicit loss of faith in the DNS.