Motion to Approve Supplemental Recommendations for the Non-Adopted Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluation SubPro Recommendations
Submitted by: Paul McGrady
Seconded by:
WHEREAS,
- The GNSO Council adopted the Final Report of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro) PDP on 18 February 2021.
- On 16 March 2023, the ICANN Board adopted the majority of the SubPro Outputs, as identified in Section A of the Scorecard, while designating a select set of recommendations as pending, identified in Section B of the Scorecard.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- On [date], the Supplemental Recommendations regarding Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluations were shared with the GNSO Council.
RESOLVED,
- 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.
