Re: [EAI] POP/IMAP authentication?

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Randall Gellens wrote:

> At 8:32 PM +0000 7/14/09, Shawn Steele wrote:
>
>>  When a user creates a new Unicode account, or migrates an existing 
>> ASCII account to Unicode, applications need to consider the 
>> appropriate authentication needs for those users.  Some users may 
>> desire Unicode login information, yet be restricted to ASCII devices 
>> or clients.  In those cases, systems may choose to provide both a 
>> Unicode and an ASCII authentication mechanism.  This is not required, 
>> and systems may assign logon credentials as they see fit, however it 
>> is recommended that application developers carefully consider the use 
>> cases and needs of the end users to determine if ASCII and/or Unicode 
>> credentials are required.
>>
>>  Certain limitations may impact decisions about logon credentials: 
>> Keyboards available to the user, anticipated public terminal use like 
>> kiosks or internet cafes, software limitations such as legacy mail 
>> clients, and hardware limitations such as cellular or satellite phones.
>
> I'm not sure that text such as this belongs in the POP and IMAP 
> documents, as opposed to the framework document.  Maybe it belongs in 
> the POP and IMAP, but I'm not convinced yet.  The idea seems to be to 
> convey some basic information regarding how accounts should be set up, 
> which can be helpful, but doesn't really have anything to do with 
> POP/IMAP, aside from the account data being used there (as well as 
> elsewhere).

I agree, this text would be better in the framework document. We should 
revise the framework document anyway.