[Latingp] First meeting

[Dillon, Chris]

Dear colleagues,

Tuesday at UTC 17:00 is still the best time for our weekly calls and I would like to run the first call on Tuesday 22. I realize that some of you will not be able to make it, but there will either be a recording of the call or detailed notes on it.

There will not be a meeting of the Integration Panel until after the deadline for public comments on the Armenian proposal (Sept. 30). I have, however, been able to have an informal email exchange about the sentence in the Procedure that could have been understood as our not needing to comment:
"Finally, in investigating the possible variant relations, Generation Panels should ignore cases where the relation is based exclusively on aspects of visual similarity."
The sentence deals with where the boundary should be between strict homoglyphs (fundamentally the same letter but acquired a different encoding in Unicode) dealt with in the LGR, and glyphs with less visual similarity, dealt with by the String Similarity process. Its intent was that the LGR would not be overloaded by complex string similarity issues. An example of the former would be Latin and Cyrillic a; an example of the latter would be the letter l (lower case of L) and number 1.

This idea would also explain why it was not necessary for the Arabic GP to consider cross script issues with Latin and why the Armenian panel did cover them.

Some aspects of where this boundary should lie are still under debate, and that is also a reason for us to make a public comment.

Regards,

Chris.
Co-Chair LGP
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Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon>

From: latingp-bounces at icann.org [mailto:latingp-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Dillon, Chris
Sent: 11 September 2015 09:49
To: LatinGP at icann.org
Subject: [Latingp] First meeting

Dear LGP colleagues,

Please fill in the following Doodle poll by Sunday to set the time of our first telephone call, bearing in mind that the time slot may be used for our regular meetings: http://doodle.com/poll/9pcqecfhrkk7a2dy

The draft agenda is still as follows:
1.         Attendance
2.         Welcome
3.         Background to the LGP
4.         Comment on Armenian GP's proposal
5.         (if time) Work plan for LGP
6.         Dates of next meetings
7.         AOB

Let me know if you would like any agenda items added.

I shall table documents on 4. and 5. nearer the time. The reason for 4. is that the Armenian GP has a discussion of homoglyph relations between Armenian and Latin scripts in their proposal for the Root Zone LGR for the Armenian script: www.icann.org/public-comments/proposal-armenian-lgr-2015-07-22-en<http://www.icann.org/public-comments/proposal-armenian-lgr-2015-07-22-en>.  This affects the LGP and we shall be expected to make a public comment.

Regards,

Chris.
Co-Chair LGP
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Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon>

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