Hi Everyone:
 
My name is Kurt Pritz and, if it acceptable to everyone, I'll join the group even though it is a bit late. For those that don't know me, I worked with ICANN for several years including time concentrating on the development of the new gTLD Program and Rights Protection Mechanisms in particular. I enjoy and have experience in statistics and measurement and so thought I might be helpful to this group. 
 
Having said that, i have a competing call this Friday that I cannot postpone and so will only be on and off the call. 
 
I've prepared a few questions that we might consider for our session with Data Analysis staff. I thought I would start out with some general ones and then get to a few specifics on the study. Let me know what you think.
 
Questions are below, best regards,
 
Kurt
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TMCH Data Analysis Questions

Now that you have essentially completed the work: what new metrics do you think should be employed to gauge the effectiveness of Sunrise, Claims and the current definition of exact match?

What do you think of the idea of the TMCH as an institution to protect rights?

In the Claims section of the report,

What data is required (and from whom) to determine why Sunrise registrations are relatively few in number?

Is it a valid conclusion that the study seems to say "no" to each of the GAC questions, i.e., whether to: 

What other data should be collected and from whom (TMCH database, TMCH validator, registrars, registries, other)s?