Re: MOGGIES Proposed Charter

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Tue, 18 May 2010 17:48 UTC

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From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Subject: Re: MOGGIES Proposed Charter
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Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>>The charter looks fine to me.  Do we have energy to also look at moving
>>RFC 4422 from Proposed to Draft?  Unless I'm missing something, that
>>shouldn't be too complicated.  I recall some implementation evaluation
>>has already started.
>>
> I wouldn't object to this, as long as I don't need to write the
> implementation report. I can contribute necessary information for the
> Cyrus SASL though.

I now recall one issue that was causing trouble earlier: SASLprep.  It
wasn't clear (at least not to me) whether it is a good idea to move RFC
4422 to Draft as long as it referenced SASLprep.  Now, the references to
SASLprep only affect other specifications, not implementations, thus we
might be able to dodge this issue completely by explaining that.

On the other hand, perhaps we should punt on moving SASL to Draft
Standard until we have some clear vision for the future of i18n in SASL.
The SASLprep replacement work the WG likely will be chartered to take on
may result in an update to RFC 4422, and we could move that replacement
document to Draft Standard instead of RFC 4422.

/Simon