[NNTP] AUTHINFO USER/PASS charset & canonicalization

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery said:

>> At the least, we should move back from saying that these strings are in
>> UTF-8 and instead just treat them as opaque byte strings, since in
>> practice at those sites that aren't using strict ASCII now, they're not
>> necessarily going to be UTF-8 (so saying that doesn't help backward
>> compatibility).

> It sounds like you need an Internationalisation Considerations section
> like we did in the base document. No doubt some of the wording could be
> re-used.

Well, see, this stuff only affects part of the document, not the whole
thing.  It's specific to the AUTHINFO USER/PASS bits; the rest of the
document does this properly going forward.  Accordingly, I'm not sure that
we want to put this stuff into a separate section at the end, since that
would seem like a more appropriate place for general issues.

It probably doesn't make a huge difference, but it feels right to keep the
various backward compatibility issues with AUTHINFO USER/PASS together in
that same section.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>