-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/11/13 11:38 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Nico Williams <[email protected]> writes: > >>> In version -04, based on PRECIS WG discussion, we changed that >>> to: >>> >>> 3. Uppercase and titlecase characters SHOULD be mapped to >>> their lowercase equivalents (not doing so can lead to false >>> positives during authentication and authorization, as described >>> in [RFC6943]). >>> >> >> This is the third time, I think, that I've had to voice my >> vehement objections to this. I thought we were done the second >> time. I believe SASL applications and mechanisms MUST NOT do the >> above, not on the client side, and that the server should be >> allowed to do what it wishes. > > If the text above would have any bearing on SASL implementations > (which isn't clear to me), I would strongly agree with you that the > text above is a Bad Idea. > > Generally, I believe the use-case of I18N of username & password > have special requirements that have been ignored by the PRECIS WG > because the username/password requirements are sometimes > conflicting with other goals of PRECIS and there doesn't seem to be > enough interest to cater to both communities at the same time. > Perhaps that is fine (I understand PRECIS wants to publish), but > then it should be made clear that PRECIS will have no immediate > bearing on SASLprepNG.
Hi Simon, Actually that text comes from draft-ietf-precis-saslprepbis: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-precis-saslprepbis-04#section-4.2 As I noted to Nico, we need to get this right and we need to take the time to do so. Alexey and I are committed to doing that, and we'll find a way to make it happen. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSMLFkAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pfv4P/Roq3J1EiaVyQVBErahCX8Lz b1HoYUgq0DfMYcTQtf69U8+MA9CFklaJiPOnaiWwZ0Wy7cXNTMMvNSBbDOFkbpiS y0pgc6Y2mel2WRwlAgAjX45SB4cfSiAEToFeG8LBST8a5hpd5Bd6zTJFaY/vOQFX e0yR99BpuPKy7DH9VGauWxFMGDOmTWo42YmBkcREwPbuuqdGttFgOqSRUxPDsQiS VNdkfWygOKunZtRa5iV6dBsloCcZLuuQBjD7iw2tjeP6cEI85mKB+QruBY4V5n/0 Bff1YkwKAaKeR2GQfz1UZMqzFy/1Ko9SmoXiW+Cvt/utY1eqqD+9VPN5lg95IU4u GrgxBT38DJmhvR0FuaFb6QKJDRVPWZG9mppj7Y8Qt/LZeZPvyvyDLKr1TBf7iMKz QLU0Osak+2YGTVXKAFCv30522IgVMcTH54GSX99Ej+CDYbJEiqK9F1FmZBl1wNko Pn9eHF31frZY4DaiLSQMyEws0p2a4CvqmBU03EPKE62J/tR7EoZSgB8cv2Dkuh1O tAvZQ4cAHR2LLl3r7nHGcuFkqQiXACh+vYC52Xogl+GxfMFfGlvooKd80TakuJt9 9OYm0ojltWihVL+bJTriIAB3ZjtxkmPMaXKNNHya7emX9tOX2MQaYS8edpwPTpL/ LTOHtJGqsBM+k2LcaZ7Z =Gat7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
