Dear colleagues, 

It occurs to me that there may be some question about how much time it would take to expand the repertoire as I have advocated.  So let me offer an estimate. 

I believe we already have (somewhere) a list of all of the languages using the Latin script. To use that to produce: 
  1. a table of code points to be added (including name, glyph, Unicode number and languages which use it). 
  2. a list of which of the new languages use the code points already in the repertoire.  (In case we wish to update our existing repertoire tables to include them.  Which we may or may not.) 
  3. a list of references (probably the usual omniglot links) for each of the additional languages
I expect would take approximately 2 weeks.  IF I do it entirely myself.   This based on how long it was taking me to work thru a language when we did the original repertoire, once I got the hang of it. 

Beyond that, a few days to identify potential variants of the new code points, and a week for us all to do our individual evaluations.  And, once that is done, a day to determine which pairs achieved the threshold (whether our existing one or a new one). 

Not, I think, an enormous elongation of our timeline.  

Regards

Bill

On Thursday, November 18, 2021, 12:25:45 AM PST, Michael Bauland via Latingp <latingp@icann.org> wrote:


Good morning Bill,


On 17.11.2021 19:50, Bill Jouris via Latingp wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have drafted a Minority Report.  Per Sarmad's guidance, I have
> submitted it as a Public Comment.  But for those who don't wish to dig
> it our from there, a copy is attached here.


thank you for the minority report. It is always good to make voices
heard that would otherwise be overlooked or forgotten.

Regarding your point about the languages we may have overlooked I have
to admit that I lack knowledge to make a opinionated decision. We might
need to discuss this further and possibly (at least for myself) need to
gather further information.

Regarding variants, while your examples and arguments are correct in
that these letters/labels are very easily confusable for a large portion
of the internet users, I disagree that they should be considered
variants. The rules of which characters may be considered variants are
quite strict and they are not about simple confusion.
The fact that there are confusable labels, as in your example .сом and
.COM, will be the task of the similarity review team. I'm certain that
.сом would not pass the similarity review and would be rejected on
grounds of being confusable with .COM (or rather .com).

I think it's a good decision to keep the variant relationships
restricted to clear-cut cases and not include merely confusables. If all
confusables would be in a variant set, due to transitivity, I'm afraid
we'd have characters being variants (and thus blocking each other) that
are far from being similar. I wouldn't be surprised if that even leads
to a situation in which "a", "o", "q", "p", and "g" are all being
considered variants of each other.

Anyway, that's just my opinion. We should talk about this in the group.

Cheers,

Michael

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