The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8265,
"Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings 
Representing Usernames and Passwords".

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5479

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Peter Occil <[email protected]>

Section: 3.1

Original Text
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   A userpart is allowed to contain only code
   points that are allowed by the PRECIS IdentifierClass defined in
   Section 4.2 of [RFC8264] and thus consists almost exclusively of
   letters and digits.


Corrected Text
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   A userpart is allowed to contain only code
   points that are allowed by the PRECIS IdentifierClass defined in
   Section 4.2 of [RFC8264] (with respect to the userpart containing
   them, not to the username as a whole) and thus consists almost 
   exclusively of letters and digits.

Notes
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Because certain characters in IdentifierClass are CONTEXTO and are not valid 
unless the whole string doesn't contain certain other characters (an example is 
ARABIC-INDIC DIGITS), it is unclear whether the context-specific rules apply to 
the whole username or to individual userparts.  However, section 3.5 strongly 
suggests that usernames (as opposed to userparts) are the matter of a 
higher-level protocol than this RFC.  As a result, this erratum adds the text 
in parentheses to clarify that context-specific rules apply to individual 
userparts.

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RFC8265 (draft-ietf-precis-7613bis-11)
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Title               : Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of 
Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords
Publication Date    : October 2017
Author(s)           : P. Saint-Andre, A. Melnikov
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings
Area                : Applications and Real-Time
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG

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