pktcMtaDevRealmName

"Randy Presuhn" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ipcdn
Message-ID <009001c50358$7a9026c0$7f1afea9@oemcomputer>
Hi -

I think the use of SnmpAdminString for pktcMtaDevRealmName
might need some more thought.  The language about "all capitals"
and search operations using upper-case ASCII doesn't mesh
too well with SnmpAdminString.

Whether it makes any sense at all will depend on
whether Kerberos will ever permit realm names which are
not upper-case ASCII.  For several writing systems, there is
no upper-case/lower-case distinction.  Chinese, Thai, Cambodian, and
Japanese are just a few examples.  Even for languages written with the Roman
alphabet, there are problems.  German "?" (which supposedly cannot be capitalized, and
> should be transformed to "SS") is a classic example.
>
> If they're trying to future-proof things, they should take a
> careful look at
> http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch05.pdf#G21180
> as well as http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/, since they
> really should
> nail down which normalization form as well.  (Actually, the choice of
> normalization form is something we should have done in the definition
> of SnmpAdminString, but no one else wanted to touch the issue then.)
>
> My advice, not knowing what the future of Kerberos will be and how it
> will handle comparison of non-ascii realm names, is to just make this
> object a DisplayString, and to spell out exactly what
> characters are permitted.
>
> Randy
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.