Dear IRT members,

The team has published the SSE Guidelines for public comment. These have been asked for in the IDN EPDP Phase 1 and are referred to from the AGB’s section on string similarity.

Please see here: https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/string-similarity-evaluation-guidelines-for-new-gtld-program-2026-round-26-11-2025.

Best. Lars