<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527714687907">And yet, in speaking with members of the IP (at San Juan), on the subject of the Least Astonishment Principle, what they said was "We are looking to the Generation Panels for guidance." </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527715178493"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527715178704">And said further (on the matter of the breve and caron) "When I am typing something that includes one of them, I have to copy and paste because I can't tell which I am lookIng at." In short, while the two diacritics are clearly not identical, at least with sufficient magnification, as far as he was concerned there was no reason that they could not be classified by us as varients. </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527715296453"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527715296805">What constitutes "identical in appearance" depends enormously on just how much magnification is assumed. The rationale for assuming anything larger than 12 point type is not at all obvious. </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527715130208"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527715130427">Bill</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527715114675"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527714955528"><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527714775993">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Androi</a>d </div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis</div><div><dtantanaka@verisign.com> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv4522631482"><style>#yiv4522631482 #yiv4522631482 --
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<div class="yiv4522631482yqt5873492881 yQTDBase" id="yiv4522631482yqtfd06280"><p class="yiv4522631482MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1527714991237">Meikal Mumin <meikal.mumin@uni-koeln.de><br clear="none">
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 10:14 AM<br clear="none">
<b>To: </b>Bill Jouris <bill.jouris@insidethestack.com>, Dennis Tan Tanaka <dtantanaka@verisign.com>, Michael Bauland <Michael.Bauland@knipp.de>, Sarmad Hussain <sarmad.hussain@icann.org><br clear="none">
<b>Cc: </b>Latin GP <LatinGP@icann.org><br clear="none">
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [Latingp] Variant cross-script analysis worksheets</span></p>
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</div><p class="yiv4522631482MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"></p><div class="yiv4522631482yqt5873492881 yQTDBase" id="yiv4522631482yqtfd99307"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">My conclusion is that it is more complex than reducing things to "</span><span style="">homoglyphs</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">"
but I do not think that (at least linguistically) we have a strong definition of<span class="yiv4522631482apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="">homoglyphs</span></div><span style=""></span>
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<p class="yiv4522631482MsoNormal">On homoglyphs the Latin GP has received the following guidance from IP, in writing and verbally (during the Brussels workshop)</p>
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<p class="yiv4522631482MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">“In the context of the Root Zone, the Procedure is quite clear in that it considers simple similarity of appearance to be outside the scope
of the Root Zone LGR. In admitting exact homoglyphs, the IP has been making the argument that ‘e’ in Latin (U+0065) and ‘е’ in Cyrillic(U+0435) are not just visually indistinguishable, but that their distinct code points effectively represent a disunification
by script property.”</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;"> – Email from IP to Latin GP of 18 October 2017 in response to our draft Principles for Inclusion and Exclusion of Code Points in
Latin Script for the Root Zone, and in particular to our Analysis of Variants in the Latin Script for the Root Zone.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv4522631482MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">“The kinds of variants to be defined in the Root Zone LGR are limited to homoglyphs, which are characters with essentially identical appearance
by design, instead of merely similar appearance.”</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;"> – Integration Panel feedback to Latin GP proposal of 22 March 2017.</span></p><div class="yiv4522631482yqt5873492881 yQTDBase" id="yiv4522631482yqtfd23860"></div><div class="yiv4522631482yqt5873492881 yQTDBase" id="yiv4522631482yqtfd63833">
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