RFC 4282:The Network Access Identifier
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canonicalization


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... UTF-8 and processed with a certain algorithm to ensure a canonical representation. Internationalization of the realm portion of the NAI ...
... RFC3490]. In order to ensure a canonical representation, characters of the username portion in an NAI ...
... AAA) server. NAIs are sent over the wire in their canonical form, and tasks such as normalization do not typically need to be performed by ...
... versions of the internationalized domain names. This provides a canonical representation, ensures that intermediate systems such as AAA proxies ...



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