Re: Fwd: [precis] spaces at end of nickname

Hi Peter,

On Nov 1, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

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> Feedback appreciated.
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> Subject: [precis] spaces at end of nickname
> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:41:55 -0600
> From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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> In the context of groupchat rooms, most applications show a room
> roster of the participants. One way to spoof nicknames is to simply
> add one or more space characters at the end, because the spaces don't
> show up in the interface (thus "stpeter", "stpeter " with one space at
> the end, and "stpeter  " with two spaces at the end would all appear
> to be the same person). This seems like an obvious hole that we can
> plug by disallowing trailing (and perhaps leading) spaces in
> nicknames. I'll forward this message to the SIMPLE WG and XMPP WG for
> their feedback, and also raise this issue during the PRECIS WG session
> next week.
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Trimming the nickname sounds reasonable to me, I don't see any case if which those spaces could bear any meaning.

Regards,

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