Re: spaces in SASL user names

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter <at> stpeter.im> writes:

> At the PRECIS WG session in Paris, we had quite a discussion about
> spaces in user names. Alexey maintained that this must have been
> included in SASLprep (RFC 4013) for a good reason, but the reason
> wasn't clear to folks in the meeting. So I have a few questions:
>
> 1. Do SASL user names really need to include spaces?

I have seen real human names used for authentication identifiers more
than once, so I believe the answer is yes.

/Simon

> 2. If SASL user names do *not* need to include spaces, would it be
> fine to re-use the PRECIS NameClass for simple user names in SASL?
>
> 3. If SASL user names *do* need to include spaces, would it be fine to
> define simple user names in SASL as a space-separated list of
> NameClass entities?
>
> Option #3 seems preferable to (a) specifying that the PRECIS NameClass
> needs to include space (to which there was a lot of resistance during
> the PRECIS WG session), (b) enabling folks to superclass PRECIS string
> classes (to which there was also a lot of resistance), or (c) severely
> subclassing the PRECIS FreeClass to be something like NameClass+SP.
>
> Peter