[precis] Oracle / ZFS note on normalization

Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> Sun, 18 January 2015 17:00 UTC

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Subject: [precis] Oracle / ZFS note on normalization
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https://blogs.oracle.com/nico/entry/normalization_insensitivity_should_be_the

  They recommend storing the data / filename entered by the client as-is.  Then for comparisons, each client reads the filename, does normalization, and compares the normalized strings.

  This is the same conclusion we got to in the RADEXT NAI document:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-radext-nai-15

  Is there a reference which makes this recommendation clear?  It would be good to help people create good solutions.

  If there isn’t a reference, should there be one?

  Alan DeKok.