Re: [precis] names and usernames

Agreed. I'm trying to get input from relevant experts, because I 
strongly doubt that we have the relevant expertise within the WG.

Peter

On 2/12/17 4:43 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Just to be clear to you and the WG, I don't have a strong
> opinion about what decision the WG should make in these cases,
> but I do believe the decision must be explicit and the result of
> discussion, not something that happens as an accident without
> knowledge of the relevant cases.
>
> best,
>    john
>
>
> --On Sunday, February 12, 2017 16:29 -0700 Peter Saint-Andre
> <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
>
>> John Klensin has brought to my attention that it is currently
>> impossible to represent some people's names in PRECIS
>> usernames because some of the relevant Unicode code points are
>> disallowed by the IdentifierClass defined in RFC 7564 (and
>> thus by the UsernameCaseMapped and UsernameCasePreserved
>> profiles defined in RFC 7613).
>>
>> First, RFC 7564 disallows "default ignorable" code points in
>> the IdentifierClass. However, as I understand it some of these
>> code points are need to represent characters in names that
>> might be desirable to people living within communities that
>> use Indic script and eastern Arabic script (e.g., Persian and
>> writing systems derived from Persian). In particular, the
>> Unicode Standard specifies that ZWJ and ZWNJ are "default
>> ignorable" and it seems that these code points are especially
>> important in this context.
>>
>> Second, apparently some Chinese family names are typically
>> written (especially outside the People's Republic of China)
>> using characters that the Unicode Consortium assigns to
>> non-BMP code points, or assigns in the BMP but as
>> compatibility decomposable characters (and thus disallowed by
>> RFC 7564 in the IdentifierClass).
>>
>> I'm not sure whether we can solve these problems
>> (internationalization is messy and we've never tried to
>> guarantee that any particular name or preferred string could
>> be represented in PRECIS usernames), but input from people
>> with a deeper understanding of these issues would be
>> appreciated. I have attempted to reach out to relevant
>> experts, and will report back to this list with any findings.
>>
>> In the meantime, I plan to submit revised I-Ds addressing
>> other issues with the PRECIS specifications sometime this
>> evening.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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