Dear Saewon Lee,

At the last meeting, I did not decide on Option 1 vs Option 2. Having gone through, please record that I prefer Option 2 for the following reasons:

Modern TLD ecosystems involve cross-script confusion patterns, not just ASCII↔diacritic.

Variant Sets (especially for IDNs) and LD Sets share the same underlying problem: user confusion.

Allowing them to co-exist under the same registry operator control respects existing variant principles (used for Chinese, Arabic, etc.).

Option 1 creates unnecessary policy barriers without improving security.

Thanks and regards

Harsha Wijayawardhana