Return-Path: X-Original-To: http-auth@ietfa.amsl.com Delivered-To: http-auth@ietfa.amsl.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DB511E83D5 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 00:59:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -10.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.599 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI=-8] Received: from mail.ietf.org ([12.22.58.30]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vKQB-Zt+C7mo for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 00:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.checkpoint.com (smtp.checkpoint.com [194.29.34.68]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B72021F99A1 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 00:59:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from IL-EX10.ad.checkpoint.com ([194.29.34.147]) by smtp.checkpoint.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r627xEPp005585; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 10:59:14 +0300 X-CheckPoint: {51D28852-6-1B221DC2-1FFFF} Received: from DAG-EX10.ad.checkpoint.com ([169.254.3.48]) by IL-EX10.ad.checkpoint.com ([169.254.2.180]) with mapi id 14.02.0342.003; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 10:59:13 +0300 From: Yoav Nir To: Julian Reschke , "http-auth@ietf.org" Thread-Topic: [http-auth] Normalization forms in draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc Thread-Index: AQHOdh5ETg5sRT+nxkGECfC1vUWCXplPIdsAgACKwgCAASjzgA== Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 07:59:14 +0000 Message-ID: <42111C34-9B32-45B2-AC94-B18CE5CC081F@checkpoint.com> References: <20130630142838.31885.15315.idtracker@ietfa.amsl.com> <51D04326.5060600@gmx.de> <51D09F98.2070508@gmail.com> <51D1175C.3020007@it.aoyama.ac.jp> <51D11AD4.5050705@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [172.31.24.134] x-kse-antivirus-interceptor-info: protection disabled x-cpdlp: 11aad5f6f7c2a60a67b38f2027fa22419756f3cbd8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [http-auth] Normalization forms in draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc X-BeenThere: http-auth@ietf.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: HTTP authentication methods List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:59:41 -0000 Hi For those of us not so well versed in I18N issues, what do you mean by norm= alization?=20 Is it just consolidating look-alike code points, like the multiple hyphens = that exist in Unicode?=20 Does it also involve removing Arabic and Hebrew points? (I think Paul raise= d this one)=20 Does it involve removing diacritics? Does it involve splitting combined characters (like U+00E6 into 'a' and 'e'= )? Is there a standard we can point to and say "do this before comparing or ha= shing"? Thanks Yoav