RFC 6885: Stringprep Revision and Problem Statement for the Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings (PRECIS)

If a protocol expects to compare two strings and is prepared only for those strings to be ASCII, then using Unicode code points in those strings requires they…

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Outgoing relationships (48 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Informative reference — RFC 5280: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
Informative reference — RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Informative reference — RFC 3501: INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1
Informative reference — RFC 5890: Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework
Informative reference — RFC 3748: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Informative reference — RFC 3490: Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
Informative reference — RFC 3454: Preparation of Internationalized Strings ("stringprep")
Informative reference — RFC 4422: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
Informative reference — RFC 6120: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core
Informative reference — RFC 5891: Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4279: Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Informative reference — RFC 4511: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): The Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 952: DoD Internet host table specification
Informative reference — RFC 3492: Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
Informative reference — RFC 4013: SASLprep: Stringprep Profile for User Names and Passwords
Informative reference — RFC 3491: Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
Informative reference — RFC 5661: Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Minor Version 1 Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 5894: Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Background, Explanation, and Rationale
Informative reference — RFC 5892: The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA)
Informative reference — RFC 5893: Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA)
Informative reference — RFC 3720: Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI)
Informative reference — RFC 6365: Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF
Informative reference — RFC 3920: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core
Informative reference — RFC 3530: Network File System (NFS) version 4 Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4513: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Authentication Methods and Security Mechanisms
Informative reference — RFC 5895: Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008
Informative reference — RFC 4616: The PLAIN Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism
Informative reference — RFC 4690: Review and Recommendations for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
Informative reference — RFC 4954: SMTP Service Extension for Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 5122: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
Informative reference — RFC 5802: Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) SASL and GSS-API Mechanisms
Informative reference — RFC 4790: Internet Application Protocol Collation Registry
Informative reference — RFC 4314: IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL) Extension
Informative reference — RFC 4505: Anonymous Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism
Informative reference — RFC 5054: Using the Secure Remote Password (SRP) Protocol for TLS Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 3722: String Profile for Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Names
Informative reference — RFC 4518: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Internationalized String Preparation
Informative reference — RFC 5051: i;unicode-casemap - Simple Unicode Collation Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 5456: IAX: Inter-Asterisk eXchange Version 2
Informative reference — RFC 6452: The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) - Unicode 6.0
Informative reference — RFC 4643: Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 5034: The Post Office Protocol (POP3) Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Authentication Mechanism
Informative reference — RFC 5804: A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts
Informative reference — RFC 3922: Mapping the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) to Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM)
Informative reference — RFC 4683: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Subject Identification Method (SIM)
Informative reference — RFC 5738: IMAP Support for UTF-8
Informative reference — RFC 4011: Policy Based Management MIB

Incoming relationships (4 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 6943: Issues in Identifier Comparison for Security Purposes
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7564: PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7622: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Address Format
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8264: PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols