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Re: [kitten] spaces in SASL user names

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 11 April 2012 16:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] spaces in SASL user names
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On 4/11/12 1:01 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> writes:
> 
>> At the PRECIS WG session in Paris, we had quite a discussion
>> about spaces in user names. Alexey maintained that this must have
>> been included in SASLprep (RFC 4013) for a good reason, but the
>> reason wasn't clear to folks in the meeting. So I have a few
>> questions:
>> 
>> 1. Do SASL user names really need to include spaces?
> 
> I have seen real human names used for authentication identifiers
> more than once, so I believe the answer is yes.
> 
> /Simon

Thanks for the input. So my next question is:

>> 3. If SASL user names *do* need to include spaces, would it be
>> fine to define simple user names in SASL as a space-separated
>> list of NameClass entities?
>> 
>> Option #3 seems preferable to (a) specifying that the PRECIS
>> NameClass needs to include space (to which there was a lot of
>> resistance during the PRECIS WG session), (b) enabling folks to
>> superclass PRECIS string classes (to which there was also a lot
>> of resistance), or (c) severely subclassing the PRECIS FreeClass
>> to be something like NameClass+SP.

Feedback is welcome. :)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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