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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Dear EPDP Team, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">During our meeting on 28 April 2022, there was support for forming a small group to develop examples to assist the EPDP Team’s deliberation on charter questions E3, E1, and E3a. These questions are related to
whether/how the string similarity review should be adjusted due to the implementation of variants. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Specifically, the small team is expected to develop concrete examples of strings and variants that are visually confusable, and demonstrate how they would be compared against each other based on the
</span><a href="https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/192217199/EPDP%20Team%20Meeting%20%2331%20Slides%20-%20ccPDP4%20update%2C%20E5.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1651255806555&api=v2"><span style="color:#1155CC">three levels of string similarity
review</span></a><span style="color:black">. The goal of this exercise is to help transform a largely academic discussion of abstract concepts into a more comprehensible discussion with practical examples. This may help the Team better analyze the three levels’
impact on string similarity review, as well as their potential consequences. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Anyone on the EPDP Team is welcome to volunteer to be part of the small team. Participation of members with familiarity or expertise in languages / scripts that have variants would be highly appreciated. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">As a refresher, the languages/scripts that have both allocatable and blocked variants according to the RZ-LGR are: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc">
<li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Arabic<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Bengali<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Chinese<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Greek<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Latin (German and Turkish have allocatable variants) <o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Myanmar<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Tamil <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">The languages/scripts that only have blocked variants are: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc">
<li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Armenian<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Cyrillic<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Devanagari<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Ethiopic<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Gurmukhi<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Hebrew<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Japanese<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Kannada<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Khmer<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Korean<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Malayalam<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Oriya<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Sinhala<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Telugu<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">If you are interested in being part of this small group, please email
</span><a href="mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">gnso-secs@icann.org</span></a><span style="color:black"> by
<u>EOB Friday, 6 May</u>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Steve, Emily, Ariel </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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