On 3/5/12 10:02 AM, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > On 03/03/2012 08:10, Alan DeKok wrote: >> Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>> Alexey and I are working on an I-D to replace SASLprep (RFC 4013). One >>> issue we found is that, in RFC 4013, spaces were allowed in usernames. I >>> know the framework document now allows spaces in passphrases, but I'm >>> wondering if we also want to allow spaces in usernames. Something to >>> discuss in Paris, perhaps... >> In a theoretical sense, yes. >> >> Practically, usernames are largely email addresses. And I've rarely >> seen spaces used in practice. > Spaces are allowed in email addresses, if quoted. Of course no sane > person would pick an email address with spaces on the left hand side (as > this is unlikely to work in many places), but at least SMTP allows for > that. > (And then there are email addresses used for gatewaying from other > systems like X.400. Such email addresses can also contain spaces)
It's rather unlikely that X.400 will be made Unicode-aware, right? ;-) > I would be happy with discouraging spaces in usernames, but I don't > think we can just prohibit them. I tend to agree. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
