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

John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com> Tue, 17 July 2012 14:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [EAI] POP (draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis-05), SASLPrep, and Stringprep
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--On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 09:42 -0400 Joseph Yee
<jyee@afilias.info> wrote:

> Personal thought.
> 
> If we picked (2) with "... or one of its standards-track
> successors", then I have some concern whether the following
> paragraph (the 4th in section 3.2, about how to apply SASLprep
> on different arguments) may trip or confuse readers.  I may
> simply worry too much [I hope].

See the notes I am about to post.  Already noted that.
Sometimes Jiankang reacts a bit too quickly and doesn't bother
to think about context, but this isn't the first time.

> If we picked (3), are we meant to write another bis when
> RFC4013 being updated/obsoleted?

I'd hope that 4013bis would explicitly update this document.

> That say, I prefer (2), and would like to ask others if
> leaving the 4th paragraph unchanged ok.

Wait for my notes to appear on the list.

   john