Re: [Ltru] Last call comments on LTRU registry and initialization documents

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John C Klensin scripsit:

> (i) The 3066 model requires some process for every tag
> that is to be used.  

Actually it doesn't; you can combine any of the 400-odd 639-1/639-2
language codes with any of the 200-odd 3166-1 country codes.
The existing opportunities for nonsense are already immense, if that's
where you want to go.  However, in practice people who use silly tags
like nv-dk (Danish Navajo) hurt only themselves, as no one will have
any process to do anything useful with nv-dk content.

> The closest equivalents involve protocols with a small set of
> options that are presumed to be orthogonal.  

Language tags, however, are not a protocol.

> Moreover, someone who was seriously security-paranoid
> might wonder whether these perverse combinations could be a way
> to code (not cypher, but code) secret/private messages.  

That could already be done with the 80,000 existing possibilities
under RFC 3066.

-- 
John Cowan  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com  jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[T]here is a Darwinian explanation for the refusal to accept Darwin.
Given the very pessimistic conclusions about moral purpose to which his
theory drives us, and given the importance of a sense of moral purpose
in helping us cope with life, a refusal to believe Darwin's theory may
have important survival value. --Ian Johnston

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