Dear all,

Please see the message below from Sarmad Hussain re: public comment of the String Similarity Review Guidelines.

Best. Lars

Dear IRT members,

As you may recall from our discussion on String Similarity Review AGB module (Section 1.3.3.) that IDN EPDP Phase 1 report recommends developing String Similarity Review Guidelines, which will be used by the String Similarity Review Panel.

For preparing these guidelines, we are planning to publish a report for public comment on 7 Feb. 2023. This report provides details of relevant factors to consider for string similarity review and a two-step process to cater to potentially a large number of comparisons in the string similarity review due to variant strings along with the applied-for strings.

If the community agrees with this approach, we will conduct Phase 2 of this work, where we will finalize the guidelines, along with the data and tools being suggested at this time. We also intend to publish Phase 2 work for public comment before finalizing it.

As shared during our discussion, we are also organizing a session at ICANN79 where we intend to present the details of the report for community input. We look forward to your input on the proposed methodology.

Regards,
Sarmad