Re: [gnso-idng] rethinking IDN gTLDs

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> Here's what I think is a simpler way to make my point: If the problems
> anticipated by offering confusingly similar strings are avoided, then
> the restriction of offering the strings is unneccessary.

Agree.

We're not doing string comparison for the mathematical pleasure of 
describing the algebraic structure of semi-groups and their 
generators, but because some non-algebraic property exists outside of 
the universe of character repertoires and the strings generated over 
them, some property with a lawyer attached.
More broadly, some, if not all of the IRT issues are dealt with if the 
application is not considered in an artificial vacuum. There's not a 
lot more gained by lawyering in the abstract than from string 
manipulation in the abstract.

So, restrictions are context dependent, not absolute.

Eric