Thank you Carlton Samuels for a nice article. It made a very good reading early in the morning for me in India.

My submission;

People should continue to use technology even when it is erroneous because the benefits of efficiency, connectivity, and progress generally outweigh the risks, and because using it allows for the identification and correction of errors.

It is important to use technology even if it has flaws:

Iterative Improvement: Using technology allows us to identify errors, leading to better, more refined versions in the future. This is a best fit method for the asynchronous mode of working on the Internet.
Efficiency and Productivity: Technology automates complex tasks, saving significant time and effort in daily life and business. DNS is an application layer idea and ICANN Remit makes the boundary conditions reasonably clear. It feels good to the boundary conditions tested out on this basis on the complex applications and APIs.
Mitigation Over Rejection: Rather than abandoning technology, the goal is to use it with "reasoned skepticism" and "abundant caution," taking responsibility for verifying results to ensure they are used safely.

We need to highlight the "black box" method. "Black box" became popular in software technology development because it allows for testing without requiring knowledge of the internal source code, focusing instead on user-centric functionality, usability, and performance. The "devil" is the detail and so be it.

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From: Carlton Samuels via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org>
Sent: 21 January 2026 06:14
To: CPWG <cpwg@icann.org>
Cc: LAC-Discuss-en <lac-discuss-en@icann.org>
Subject: [CPWG] The 2026 String Similarity Guidelines: Automating Mistakes of the Pass

See the post from Sophia Bekele in CircleID this week.

https://circleid.com/posts/2026-new-gtld-string-similarity-guidelines-automating-the-mistakes-of-the-past

The overall matter she is highlighting provokes thought and is sufficient to cast the need for a clear understanding of what is coming.

To my mind, this whole Latin diacritics matter adds some grist to the mill.

Carlton

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