[NNTP] Re: New NNTP AUTHINFO text

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Mon Aug 8 09:57:41 PDT 2005


Sam Hartman wrote:

> I would strongly recommend against asking clients to canonicalize.
> Servers may actually be in a position to know the character set in use
> and may even know if normalization will help.  Clients never do.
> 
> Besides that looks good.

OK, so you're thinking something like this?

"Servers MAY use the [SASLprep] profile of the [StringPrep] algorithm to 
prepare usernames for comparison, ..."


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