Re: [xmpp] WGLC Comments on 6122bis

Ben Campbell <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:24:50 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.precis,gmane.ietf.xmpp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:15 PM, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <[email protected]> wrote:

>> So an identifier created with UsernameCaseMapped should be fine, but an
>> identifier created somewhere else in sasl might not be legal? That
>> _seems_ unlikely to be a problem...
> 
> Right.
> 
>> It might not hurt to mention the saslprepbis appendix in the note.
> 
> Actually, Section 6.1 of draft-ietf-precis-saslprepbis is an even better pointer because it describes the differences in more detail, with an eye toward migration from Stringprep to PRECIS. You might want to re-read that section to determine the level of your concern.

I'm sorry, were you expecting stateful reviewers? ;-)

So maybe adding something to effect of "see 6.1 of that doc for more details" would be enough. But I read the note to be about coexisting with or using of non-updated SASL mechanisms, while 6.1 seems more about migrating.