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RFC 8265
Title: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of
Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames
and Passwords
Author: P. Saint-Andre,
A. Melnikov
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: October 2017
Mailbox: stpeter@jabber.org,
alexey.melnikov@isode.com
Pages: 26
Characters: 62557
Obsoletes: RFC 7613
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-precis-7613bis-11.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8265
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8265
This document describes updated methods for handling Unicode strings
representing usernames and passwords. The previous approach was
known as SASLprep (RFC 4013) and was based on Stringprep (RFC 3454).
The methods specified in this document provide a more sustainable
approach to the handling of internationalized usernames and
passwords. This document obsoletes RFC 7613.
This document is a product of the Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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