RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

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Simon Josefsson wrote:

> I'd be happy to help work on a document that analyzed the consequences
> of replacing SASLprep with just-use-RFC5198 in SASL.  But I don't think
> SCRAM should wait for something like it to materialize.

I agree that such work would take time, and we don't want to delay
SCRAM.

But as the discussion so far has shown, normalization is a very tricky
topic, and we can't really expect implementors to understand why "just
use UTF-8" is problematic. Perhaps we should add a note to the SCRAM
draft; something like
 
   Informative Note: Implementors are encouraged to create test cases
   that use both username passwords with non-ASCII characters. In
   particular, it's useful to test characters whose "normalization
   form C" and "normalization form KC" are different. Some examples of
   such characters include Vulgar Fraction One Half (U+00BD) and
   Acute Accent (U+00B4).

Do you think this would increase the likelihood of interoperability
with non-ASCII passwords?

Best regards,
Pasi
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