internationalization of textual passwords

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

While the simple bind password and userPassword are OCTET STRINGs
and to be compared using octetStringMatch (and I continue to think
this should not be changed, see past discussions), I (as an
individual) think it would be appropriate to RECOMMEND that clients
which provide textual passwords "prepare", using SASLprep, the
string before transmission to the server to ensure that like
passwords will match.  Use of SASLprep here, aside from ensuring
consistency between all LDAP clients desiring to use textual
passwords, would allow the textual strings to be used in various
SASL mechanisms which use SASLprep.

Comments?

Kurt