Re: [Medup] Issues draft-birk-pep-trustwords (was: New Version Notification for draft-birk-pep-trustwords-03.txt)

[Volker Birk <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 07:00:01PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> > 1) Localization:
> >    How should non-ASCII-7bit letters or language symbols be represented
> >    in the wordlists? UTF-8? HTML-like encoding? IDNA? Any better solution?
> UTF-8, the other precursors are not quite as universal.

That's what we're using today – NFC normalized to be exact. We did this
to unify characters, which have an identical appearance (like Ohm sign
and Greek capital letter Omega).

> language code: en

Today we're using ISO 639-1, so this is the case already.

> ISO-639-1, the less languages the better.

Fully agreed. Supporting your reasoning.

> > 4) Bitsize (how many bits can be mapped with a wordlist):
> >    e.g. a bitsize of 16 allows for a list containing 2^16 = 65536 words.
> >    Should this be kept open or should only certain values for bitsize
> >    be allowed to be registerd?
> >    If latter applies, which values are useful (e.g. 8, 12 and 16)
> Open sound better.  Using wordlists may give rise to a totally new kind of
> blockchains, where meaningful phrases are the target.  We shouldn't limit
> creativity by imposing a fixed size.

Word lists like Trustwords require a variable length concept, because
there's languages with quite different numbers of words in dictionaries.

Yours,
VB.
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