On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree that an I18N document is the appropriate way to move the
> Internet to case-insensitive usernames.
>
> If case-sensitive usernames is a significant problem, then it should be
> possible to publish a BCP recommending against that.  Then existing
> protocols with case-sensitive usernames like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SSH, etc
> could be revised.  I don't believe any of that will happen, so we'll
> have to live with case sensitive usernames, and my take is that I18N
> documents should permit that.

I agree.  Also, there's a lot of work to do to get there, particularly
enrollment (account creation) time work.  We can't merely specify a
case-insensitive stringprep profile.

Nico
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