-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/19/13 3:46 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > 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.
Hi Nico, please (re-)read Section 4.3 of draft-ietf-precis-framework before concluding that the participants in the PRECIS WG are utterly misguided on the issue of whitespace. :-) Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRJDVbAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pq0QP/3AxlkOkRL6IDPWQ39ffcxnQ 3PqkH9PFUEIvD+S20kOZX2aVokGvcwQiZ0GiGXDumTkhTvMxNie47ZmNLaEikExY 4JENZWKZEhz/mfCJZ0PpM7CfpOelt1PCJ8Qne4BiyJObKYso4vFEr/9j43/9WNGL rUxCCkk6AjQ7dUx64bZOc7c+LBvmb1034XYY4HGRihfYCz+nWFSpaMSWtrD0o1Cj iYjZfPa+IUzEjF6QvEB22RkMhQgr3lnyRq++Rhl/iBV6N7Ul0Sie9or879d1/GU2 6iPb8HwAJT8NGBQlv9rp+T/A9XFwRe761NUR2qlLgBbzuO0He5UlyuRetHrVvM/q oZehWeX5wkRQWvwRFxF64A8JRRAoJxj6xOnzHI7yZo4M+75vWf8vrJsPWzU81OAk CTSAuanpwDhfhZpWWUtHNDiJgzFql0oc0/x1nXRrgA+hNtjyV98SWfveuk16tFUo XD7ETDDK+ION/G9QK0FJF6eidMuq6e++OEI/jBfTiUZ+5RpO1DE5VG2dzGRnl8sO SnMZhCcpuwZFoMitr3Hc/chPq9ai29xIt+rnLfghvrTVz36q0hEBjpBl7cCtnPS9 9g18zs03aNWQcOQpiRfmMvY0wLpBuSjOiuPTfx8cT/15htIQOTz/c1fhoY7Z65GZ RdmAKnIZFk7876ATpofQ =uys8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
