[CCWG-ACCT] Declaration issued in the Booking.com v ICANN IRP

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Typo,

NE and NE should have read NO and NP.

See, how difficult that is?

el

On 2015-03-05 13:51, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> to digress slightly and even more fascinatinger :-)-O why will
> Thomas Rickert consider NZ and NA not similar while you and I do?
> Because he uses a QWERTY keyboard whereas you and I use a QWERTZ one.
> 
> In the early days when I was still using a German keyboard it took
> me a while to figure out why messages to NZ were bouncing via the
> expensive telephone link to NA.
> 
> UA and NA are another case.  Handwritten they are extremely
> difficult to keep apart...
> 
> SU and US for the dyslexic.
> 
> Ever thought about bit-wise similarities?  We had a presentation on
> one of the TechDays which showed that random events are more common
> than originally thought, but AO and AQ (never mind the similarity),
> NE and NE, PS and PT, are one bit separated from each other.
> 
> On 2015-03-05 13:19, Greg Shatan wrote:
> [...]
>> Where the SSRP went awry was in its actual results.  I'm not
>> prepared to say this was a design flaw or a process flaw.  But the
>> results flabbergasted many people.  Somehow it seemed to mutate
>> into a "bad eyesight similarity review," since the only two
>> "positives" were one where "i" gets confused with "l" and one
>> where "rn" gets confused with "m".  Meanwhile, singulars were not
>> similar to plurals.  So "hotels" is a similar string to "hoteis"
>> but not to "hotel".  "Fascinating," as the late Mr.  Spock might
>> say.
> [...]
> 
> Maybe the answer to hotels, hoteis and hotel, lies in that it is
> easier to mistype hotels and hoteis rather than hotel, even if the
> Levenshtein distance is the same (1 edit or 1 addition).
> 
> el
> 

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