Re: PKCS#11 URI slot attributes & last call

Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com> Tue, 30 December 2014 20:44 UTC

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From: Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: PKCS#11 URI slot attributes & last call
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Nico Williams wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Nico Williams wrote:
>>>Better not even think about saying anything about normalization,
>>>right?  PKCS#11 nowadays supports UTF-8 for the strings we care about,
>>>but says nothing about normalization.  I suppose you could say that
>>>matching should be (lowercase) normalization-insensitive.  In practice
>>>it will never matter (which is why the lowercase).
>>
>>         hi Nico, I assume you talk about case normalization now.  I
>> also agree we need not to say anything about it - and we don't aside
>> from "case normalization" as defined in 6.2.2.1 of RFC 3986 where only
>> the following sections are relevant to us:
>
>No, I meant Unicode normalization.  It's a messy business.  Better say
>nothing, because I think the thing to do is obvious enough, but if we
>must say anything, it's that the various strings (e.g., token manuf)
>are to be compared normalization-insensitively.

	yes, in that case I agree that we don't need to say anything.  
Thanks for bringing this up, Jan.

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Jan Pechanec <jan.pechanec@oracle.com>