[642] in Kerberos
Re: release 1.0: random comments and questions: #^
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Ted Anderson)
Tue Jan 31 09:18:27 1989
From: Ted Anderson <ota+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
To: aoki%faerie.Berkeley.EDU@BERKELEY.EDU (Paul M. Aoki),
In-Reply-To: <8901301842.AA19151@faerie.berkeley.edu>
> *Excerpts from org.afs.kerberos: 30-Jan-89 release 1.0: random comment.. Paul*
> *M. Aoki@Berkeley.ED (2654)*
> 6. There appear to be places (e.g., the handling of realm names) where
> use of strcasecmp() would be useful. Put less tactfully: having
> case-sensitive realm names seems silly.
There was some discussion of this at the 11/16/88 Apollo meeting. The concensus
seemed to be that requiring comparisons to be case insensitive, especially at
this point, was inviting obscure bugs. However, since realm names are
frequently named after internet domain names which are explicitly case
insensitive, it was clear that a convention was needed. It was decided that if
a realm was created from an domain name it should be uppercased in the process.
Other realms, whose names come from other sources, can do whatever they want WRT
case.
Ted Anderson
