Visually confusable characters

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

On 8/7/14 10:37 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
> ...
> (3) The question of what one does once one identifies a pair (or
> set) of characters as "visually confusable" is quite separate
> from how those characters are identified (something that both
> the JET effort and ICANN got right (by the time of the VIP
> activity if not earlier).  There are lots of choices including
> blocking all of them (which Mark's note seems to suggest),
> letting one of the group be registered and then blocking the
> others, making sure that all of them are allocated to or
> controlled by the same party, trying to link them together at
> either the DNS or application layers, and other, often more
> complex, strategies.  I have trouble imagining any basis on
> which the IETF or an IETF-derived WG list, would be the right
> place for deciding on those strategies... even if we might help
> identify some of the possibilities.

John, colleagues,

I simply wish to point out that equivalence classes include characters 
which are "visually confusable", and characters which have equivalent 
meaning, e.g., the characters contained in Deng, et alia's original 
intermediate table draft.

Eric