Re: SIMPLE chat: Internationalization and normalization of nicknames
Ben Campbell <[email protected]>
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On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Paul Kyzivat wrote: > On 3/1/12 5:54 PM, Ben Campbell wrote: > >>> OK. It seems that you might also be making some authorization decisions >>> based on the nickname, e.g., if you've reserved a nickname then I can't >>> get that nickname (can I join the chatroom but just not with that >>> nickname?). >>> >> >> Yes, that is true. We do need an equality operator in some sense. (And yes, assuming no other policy issue was blocking you, you could still use a different nickname) > > And this presumably needs some notion of canonicalization, so that you can't get two nicknames that compare as different but *look* the same. That's going to be a very hard problem to solve. I suspect we will end up with text that points out that this can happen, but leave it up to implementors to figure out what to do about it. (Peter: Do you have your Cherokee example handy?) > > Thanks, > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Simple mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/simple