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 -- _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
