Your understanding matches with the intent of the language from RFC 7638. I'll 
plan to proceed on that basis then.

Thanks again,
-- Mike

From: Alexey Melnikov
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on 
draft-ietf-oauth-discovery-08: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
To: Mike Jones, The IESG
Cc: draft-ietf-oauth-discov...@ietf.org, oauth-cha...@ietf.org, oauth@ietf.org


Hi Mike, On Wed, Jan 24, 2018, at 10:11 PM, Mike Jones wrote: > Thanks for the 
useful review, Alexey. I propose that we use the same > character restrictions 
that are described in > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7638#section-6, which 
are: > > (a) require that member names 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), This looks reasonable. > or > > (b) if new members are defined 
that use other code > points, require that their definitions specify the exact 
Unicode code > point sequences used to represent them. Furthermore, proposed > 
registrations that use Unicode code points that can only be > represented in 
JSON strings as escaped characters must not be > accepted. So just to double 
check: it is Ok to register names in Greek or Cyrillic (for example) and they 
will be compared in a case sensitive manner? > I also propose that we say that 
member name comparison occurs in the > manner described in 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-8.3. My understanding is that RFC 
7159 recommends case-sensitive comparison and that is fine with me. > Will that 
work for you, Alexey? Best Regards, Alexey > > Thanks, > -- Mike > > 
-----Original Message----- > From: Alexey Melnikov 
[mailto:aamelni...@fastmail.fm] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:06 AM > 
To: The IESG > Cc: draft-ietf-oauth-discov...@ietf.org; Hannes Tschofenig > ; 
oauth-cha...@ietf.org; > hannes.tschofe...@gmx.net; oauth@ietf.org > Subject: 
Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-oauth-discovery-08: > (with DISCUSS and 
COMMENT) > > Alexey Melnikov has entered the following ballot position for > 
draft-ietf-oauth-discovery-08: Discuss > > When responding, please keep the 
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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-discovery/ > > > > 
---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 
DISCUSS: > 
---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 
Thank you for the well written IANA Considerations section. I have one > 
comment on it which should be easy to resolve: > > The document doesn't seem to 
say anything about allowed characters in > Metadata names. When the document 
talks about "case-insensitive > matching", it is not clear how to implement the 
matching, because it is > not clear whether or not Metadata names are ASCII 
only. If they are not, > then you need to better define what "case insensitive" 
means. > > > 
---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 
COMMENT: > 
---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am 
agreeing with Adam's DISCUSS. > > > 
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