Re: [EAI] POP (draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis-05), SASLPrep, and Stringprep

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

On 15/07/2012 16:49, John C Klensin wrote:
> Hi.
Hi John,

> Just checking that what this document says is what everyone
> wants...
>
> Section 3.2 of draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis-05 is very heavily
> dependent on SASLprep [RFC4013], including MUST requirements.
> SASLPrep is, in turn, dependent on Stringprep, which is tied to
> Unicode 3.2.   Questions:
>
> (1) Could someone who is closer to SASLPrep and the PRECIS work
> tell us whether they are comfortable with this or whether the
> text in this spec should be modified somewhat?  If any changes
> are likely to be completely compatible, I don't think there is a
> problem.  However,...
>
> (2) If changes are needed, should Section 3.2 be rewritten to
> explicitly allow conformance with the successors of 4013 as an
> alternative?  I think that would require only a few changes of
> wording.
But that would require pointing to a document with unclear date of 
completion...
> (3) Or are we better off just leaving this alone and monitoring
> any 4013bis efforts to make sure they contain provisions to
> explicitly update our spec when the time comes?
>
> These are just questions --if the WG is ok with things as they
> are, so am I.  But I can see this causing questions during IETF
> Last Call and want to be sure we have considered the issue.

I think (3) is the best way forward, but just my 2 pence.