The other place that you might need escaping would be in the service specifics. A somewhat contrived example
Ietf//[email protected]@augustcellars.com I don't know if this is even reasonable, but I can see potentially wanting the characters there. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Sam Hartman > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [abfab] escaping in ABFAB names > > > Hi. One of the comments from the secdir review is that we have no way to > escape a slash or @ inside an ABFAB name. For reference, Kerberos does > have such a mechanism. > > I think we at least discussed this in a meeting. > > It's much easier to add an escaping mechanism now if we're going to need it. > > I can't think of a reason you'd need such an escaping mechanism in practice > except: > > 1) To represent Kerberos enterprise names in ABFAB. I cannot think of why > you'd need to do that. > > 2) To represent pathalogical hostnames or Kerberos names in ABFAB. I > cannot think of why you'd need to do that. > > I think that when this was discussed in a meeting people expressed a > preference for simplicity over escaping. Personally I'm a bit nervous that we > may regret this decision no matter which way we decide. > > --Sam > _______________________________________________ > abfab mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/abfab _______________________________________________ abfab mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/abfab
