On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO this is similar to the previous discussion about naming needing > to include space characters (after all, your name is "Chris Newman", > not "ChrisNewman"). After much discussion, participants in the PRECIS > WG concluded that it would be safer to disallow space characters in > the NameClass, and that application protocols would need to define > their constructs as a space-separated series of NameClass instances. > And in fact that's what we've done in draft-ietf-precis-saslprepbis:
I think this is a mistake. There are plenty of online games where users are allowed to have fairly arbitrary names. E.g., bzflag (although in recent years I think additional restrictions have been added on the registration side). Online gaming is probably a desired customer for SASL -- why not? I think restrictions on user naming should be imposed primarily by the registrar, not by the client or server software. We might well advise against allowing whitespace in usernames, and we might need to map different whitespace codepoints to just one, and so on, but not prohibit. Nico -- _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
