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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Dear Prof. Lehal, NBGP members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>IP has reviewed and shared their final feedback below and as attached. They have suggested some editorial changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>May we request you to please carefully review and incorporate the feedback and share the final version of the Gurmukhi LGR proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Once you share the version:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol start=1 type=1><li style='color:windowtext;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>it will be published at the ICANN website as the final version of Gurmukhi LGR proposal from NBGP, after incorporating the public comments, and <o:p></o:p></li><li style='color:windowtext;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>it will be submitted to IP for their formal review <o:p></o:p></li></ol><p><span style='color:windowtext'>These are the next steps towards approval and integration of the work into the RZ-LGR. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Sarmad<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p>To NeoB-GP (Gurmukhi)<br>From IP<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>The IP has reviewed the post-public comment version of the Gurmukhi LGR and notes a few final editorial issues noted in the attached document and in the text below.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Some additional mechanical testing has been performed and no issues found. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The dispositions of comments have been reviewed; the IP feels that these should be formally published to provide a track record of the GP's processing of public comments, especially for comments that resulted in no change to the LGR.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As a result of this review, the IP is looking forward to the submission of a finalized Gurmukhi LGR proposal for formal review and approval as part of the integrated Root Zone LGR.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Document:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Editorial issues noted in attached document "Gurmukhi-LGR-20181206-IP-review.docx" (see change tracking and sidebar comments)<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>TXT file:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>No issues<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>XML file:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>(1) On line 138 in the XML file, the <dd> entry for [Proposal] contains no title or URL and date for the final published proposal document. We expect that this will be replaced by the actual data as part of publication. <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>(2) The "Overview" section (lines 12ff) contains the wrong document title. The correct title is "Proposal for a Gurmukhi Script Root Zone Label Generation Ruleset (LGR)"<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>(3) The section on variants (line 32ff) contains language that is cloned from Devanagari but does not apply to the specifics of the Gurmukhi LGR, because unlike Devanagari, no in-script variants are defined, and therefore "deviation from normally perceived character formation" dos not apply. The following change is suggested.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Old:<o:p></o:p></p><p> <p>According to Section 6, "Variants", in "[Proposal]", this LGR defines variants which are<br> "Confusing due to deviation from normally perceived character formations by larger linguistic <br> community". These cases are not of mere visual similarity; they can cause confusion even to a<br> careful observer and hence have been defined as variants. In addition to these, NBGP also did <br> cross-script variant analysis among all the scripts under NBGP ambit. Gurmukhi and Devanagari <br> scripts are closely related to each other and there are many characters in both scripts, which <br> can be confused with the characters in other script.</p><o:p></o:p></p><p>New (suggested):<o:p></o:p></p><p> <p>The Gurmukhi and Devanagari scripts are closely related to each other and there are many <br> code points in both scripts which can be confused with code points in the other script. Additional<br> cross-script variant analysis identified a smaller set of code points from the Bengali script. Where these<br> can cause confusion even to a careful observer, they have been defined as variants. See Section 6, <br> "Variants", in [Proposal].</p><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>