On Thu, Feb 2, 2017, at 06:05 PM, Mike Jones wrote:
> I was planning to stay with the characters specified in 6.1 (a)
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-amr-values-05#section-6.1:
> 
>    a.  require that Authentication Method Reference values being
>        registered use only printable ASCII characters excluding double
>        quote ('"') and backslash ('\') (the Unicode characters with code
>        points U+0021, U+0023 through U+005B, and U+005D through U+007E),
> 
> That excludes space.  That's the set taken from RFC 7638, Section 6
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7638#section-6, which is a very related
> usage.
> 
> Space is excluded because sometimes in OAuth messages, values are
> represented as space-separated strings.

I am sorry I misread this earlier: you already exclude space, so the
text as specified is fine.

>                               -- Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexey Melnikov [mailto:aamelni...@fastmail.fm] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 7:07 AM
> To: Mike Jones <michael.jo...@microsoft.com>; The IESG <i...@ietf.org>
> Cc: draft-ietf-oauth-amr-val...@ietf.org; Hannes Tschofenig
> <hannes.tschofe...@gmx.net>; oauth-cha...@ietf.org; oauth@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-oauth-amr-values-05:
> (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017, at 03:05 PM, Mike Jones wrote:
> > I'd be OK limiting the protocol elements to using ASCII characters, if 
> > that would be the IESG's preference.
> 
> I think that would be much simpler for everybody.
> 
> I still want to confirm that spaces are allowed in names. Can you
> confirm?
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexey Melnikov [mailto:aamelni...@fastmail.fm]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 12:06 AM
> > To: The IESG <i...@ietf.org>
> > Cc: draft-ietf-oauth-amr-val...@ietf.org; Hannes Tschofenig 
> > <hannes.tschofe...@gmx.net>; oauth-cha...@ietf.org; 
> > hannes.tschofe...@gmx.net; oauth@ietf.org
> > Subject: Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-oauth-amr-values-05:
> > (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
> > 
> > Alexey Melnikov has entered the following ballot position for
> > draft-ietf-oauth-amr-values-05: Discuss
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > Please refer to 
> > https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html
> > for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions.
> > 
> > 
> > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-amr-values/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > DISCUSS:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > This is a fine document and I support its publication. However I have 
> > a small set of issues that I would like to discuss first.
> > 
> > Are non ASCII names needed? (This is a protocol element, not a human 
> > readable string, so non ASCII is not needed). Are ASCII spaces allowed 
> > in names? More generally: what do you call printable character?
> > 
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > COMMENT:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > In Section 6.1: suggestion to first describe IANA registration policy, 
> > then describe restrictions on registered names. Otherwise the current 
> > text doesn't flow well.
> > 
> > I am also agreeing with Stephen's DISCUSS.
> > 
> > 

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