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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mats, thanks for the summary. I believe it’s an accurate account of our action items.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On #4 there’s some additional nuance. In regards, similarity vs variant, they pointed out to limit considerations of appearance to cases that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> are unambiguous<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> have overriding security concerns<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> exhibit true exchangeability (homoglyph)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">They also mentioned that when looking at similarity cases we should look at those through the lenses of a “careful and observant user”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Dennis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="color:black">Latingp <latingp-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Mats Dufberg <mats.dufberg@iis.se><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 12:48 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>ICANN Latin GP <Latingp@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [Latingp] Variants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Friends,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">During the ICANN63 we had one specific session between Latin GP and IP, but there have more IDN sessions where comments relevant to our work has come up.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">1. IP wants us to create cross-script variants with all code points in different scripts that has identical or visually similar to LATIN SMALL LETTER O. IP
gave the following list in their presentation today:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Code Glyph Name
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 006F o LATIN SMALL LETTER O
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 03BF ο GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 043E о CYRILLIC SMALLER LETTER O
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 0585 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">օ</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> ARMENIAN
SMALL LETTER OH </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 0B20 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Oriya Sangam MN"">ଠ</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> ORIYA LETTER
TTHA </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 0D20 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Kartika",serif">ഠ</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> MALAYALAM
LETTER TTHA </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 101D
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Myanmar Text",sans-serif">ဝ</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> MYANMAR LETTER WA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">IP that a GP has the responsibility to look at other GP's proposals, both completed and work-in-progress, for obvious cases of visual similarity.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2. Besides the "ring" above, they want us to look for the straight line, i.e. l like.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">3. IP suggests that we include cases of visually similarity that we have decided to reject in an appendix of two reasons:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Firstly to show the reader that we have considered the case, but decided not to included it as variant. In that way we might get less questions during public
comment if the we have looked at certain pair. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Secondly to give data for others, such as for a 2nd level IDN table creation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">I know that we have decided to do it, but I just want to emphasize that it came up.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">4. I feel that there is more understanding on creating variants on visual similarity rather than strict homoglyphs. Other GP propose such in-script variants.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Mats</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Mats Dufberg</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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