[EAI] Localpart normalization (was Re: Downgrade Design Team Discussion Results Released)

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Thu, 18 March 2010 23:38 UTC

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Subject: [EAI] Localpart normalization (was Re: Downgrade Design Team Discussion Results Released)
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As a side note, one of the things suggested by the EAI downgrade design 
team should be further discussed and should be coordinated with the 
NewPrep BOF:

YAO Jiankang wrote:
> The design team also noted that an informational RFC regarding
> selection of addresses (both Unicode and ASCII) would be
> helpful, that clients SHOULD use Unicode Normalization Form C,
> and that servers MUST use NFC.
>   
Whatever normalization we recommend, it should be consistent with 
handling of nodes in XMPP (NodePrepBis) and SASLPrepBis.