Hi Matt,

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On 17 Sep 2012, at 19:09, "Matt Miller (mamille2)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> * 3.2 (Passwords - Preparation) :: I do wonder about the rationale for step 
> 2) (map all non-ASCII space to ASCII space).  I myself have not run into 
> conditions where this would matter, but I mostly deal with US-based consumers 
> with passwords almost exclusively in the ASCII range.  On the surface, it 
> seems a bit contradictory in principle to the "no bidi rule" rationale that 
> is included. I'm not advocating for retention or removal of step 2), but 
> rather for providing a rationale (one way or the other).

This rule was always in SASLPrep, so this is trying to preserve some sort of 
backward compatibility. Whether it is a good enough reason to keep the rule - I 
don't know.

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