[ALAC] Draft Advice to the Board on Confusingly Similar New gTLD Strings

[Alan Greenberg]

Attached and at https://community.icann.org/x/1AuMAg is my first 
draft on a statement of advice to the ICANN Board on confusingly 
similar strings.

I think that it is likely that the issue of the two conflicting 
string objection results for .com and .com (pointers below) will be 
on the agenda of the 27-28 September Board Workshop, so it would be 
opportune for us to submit this statement prior to then.

Please distribute to your RALOs as you see fit.

For those interested in the string confusion objections, the full 
list can be found at the easy-to-locate document - 
http://images.go.adr.org/Web/AmericanArbitrationAssociation/%7B3d7531bb-c0b8-462e-ab7a-2a6572300363%7D_ICANN_DRP_StringConfusion_Objections.pdf 
(or if that gets mangled - http://tinyurl.com/StringObjections).

The three .com/.cam determinations can be found at:
http://images.go.adr.org/Web/AmericanArbitrationAssociation/%7B2e0321f5-da2c-4b68-a4fe-732e45dd8380%7D_50_504_T_00224_13_determination.pdf
http://images.go.adr.org/Web/AmericanArbitrationAssociation/%7B89cde8ce-0b0f-4511-8fa2-d34d3baf5295%7D_50_504_T_00226_13_determination.pdf
http://images.go.adr.org/Web/AmericanArbitrationAssociation/%7Bccb221d7-8f2e-4b86-8dda-f76e69fabcd5%7D_50_504_T_00229_13_determination.pdf

Note that the first two determinations that found the strings to be 
NOT confusingly similar were by the same panelist. The third which 
found that the exact same strings WERE confusingly similar was by a 
different panelist.

Alan 
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