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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Another way to look at this (at least I do) is to consider two uses cases:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-use case 1: two (or more) IDN tables, same script<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-use case 2: two (or more) IDN tables, different scripts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">The core of the guideline is to harmonize variant rules (i.e. ensure symmetry and transitivity) across all IDN tables under a TLD. I think we were thinking Japanese and Chinese (at least I was) when
we discussed the detail and final language. I don’t think it was our intention to discriminate same script vs cross-script. In this sense, it make sense to remove the “same script” qualifier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Dennis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Idngwg <idngwg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Sarmad Hussain <sarmad.hussain@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 8:46 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"idngwg@icann.org" <idngwg@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [Idngwg] Harmonization of Variant Sets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a name="_MailOriginalBody">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">As discussed in the call today, here is a brief document discussing the harmonization of variant sets. The “same-script IDN tables” in the guidelines allows for the
examples in the document. Additional guidelines on cross-script labels would prevent cross-script issues implicitly. However, if the WG considers to make it explicit, it could be done by, for example, removing the
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">yellow highlighted</span> text in the attached document.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Regards,<br>
Sarmad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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