Name: String Similarity Evaluation and New gTLD Program:Next Round
Start: 2025-03-12T09:00:00-0700
End: 2025-03-12T10:00:00-0700

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String Similarity Evaluation and New gTLD Program:Next Round

Wednesday March 12, 2025 09:00 - 10:00 PDT

Elwha A (Secondary Ballroom)

09:00 PST (UTC-8), 12 March 2025
16:00 UTC, 12 March 2025
Elwha A (Secondary Ballroom)
ID# 16520

Session Details
During this session, an update on the String Similarity Evaluation project, a part of the New gTLD Program: Next Round, will be provided. The session will cover and seek input on the mechanism for conducting string similarity evaluations based on similarity data collected from script experts and its use to identify possible contention sets for the manual review of the String Similarity Evaluation Panel.

Session Leader: Sarmad Hussain
Staff Facilitator: Pitinan Kooarmornpatana

Session Recordings
Zoom Archive
English audio archive
Archivo de audio en español
Archive audio en français

Session Leaders

Pitinan Kooarmornpatana.

IDN Program, Director, ICANN Org

Sarmad Hussain

Senior Director, IDN and UA Programs, ICANN Org

Sarmad Hussain is with ICANN’s Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Universal Acceptance (UA) Programs. Earlier, Sarmad was a professor of Computer Science and held the IDRC Chair position in Multilingual Computing. His research has focused on developing computing solutions... Read More →

SSE Update 12mar25 pdf

TRANSC I82SEA Wed12Mar2025 String Similarity Evaluation and New gTLD Program Next Round en pdf

TRANSC I82SEA Wed12Mar2025 String Similarity Evaluation and New gTLD Program Next Round es pdf

TRANSC I82SEA Wed12Mar2025 String Similarity Evaluation and New gTLD Program Next Round fr pdf

Wednesday March 12, 2025 09:00 - 10:00 PDT
Elwha A (Secondary Ballroom) ICANN 82 - Community Forum, Seattle

Security / Technical, Public Session