RE: [gnso-idng] 3rd Draft on Sting Similarity

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Makes sense to me Eric.

Chuck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Brunner-Williams [mailto:ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:15 PM
> To: Gomes, Chuck
> Cc: Avri Doria; gnso-idng@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [gnso-idng] 3rd Draft on Sting Similarity
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> Avri first used the phrase "lowest common denominator" in 
> this context. She gets the "probably didn't teach schools 
> maths" prize.
> 
> I take your point that ease of measurement isn't the only 
> possible standard, and it may be, as attractive as 
> "objectivity" is, better, or even usable.
> 
> Seriously, if the sword thing were useful it wouldn't be 
> telling us that "cym" and "com" are confusing, as that 
> reduces to two consonants separated by a vowel, which isn't 
> terribly useful, though wicked efficient and objective.
> 
> But what are we really bringing to the Council's broader membership?
> 
> First, that the probability of confusion rule still has areas 
> of surprising (non)applicability, and second, the 
> independence of applications, from each other and from any 
> pre-existing registry assumption, results in incorrect 
> outcomes, for which additional steps to correct are required.
> 
> The first shows up with IDNs, and the second shows up with 
> IDNs and generally.
> 
> Eric
>