Re: [scim] Name Internationalization

I think most of attributes currently defined as "Singular Attributes"
in the schema draft should allow multi-valued ones as well for
non-English environment.  For example, businesses in Japan usually
store Kanji and Kana characters (cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system) for almost all
attributes from name to department.

I prefer Kelly Grizzle's suggestion in his follow-up to my question last month.

 http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/scim/current/msg00926.html

And would like to apply it other than phonetic representation like:

"displayName": [
    { "value": "<Kana characters>", "locale": "ja-kana-JP" },
    { "value": "<Kanji characters>", "locale": "ja-JP" }
  ]

Thoughts?

Tatsuo.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Bert Greevenbosch
<Bert.Greevenbosch@huawei.com> wrote:
> I stumbled across the same issue when doing v02 of the SCIM/vCard mapping
> draft. See section 6.
>
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-greevenbosch-scim-vcard-mapping/
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>
> Indeed in vCard multiple surnames, given names and additional names are
> possible.
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>
> Best regards,
>
> Bert
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>
>
> From: scim-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:scim-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Marc
> Blanchet
> Sent: 2013年3月25日 6:35
> To: Shelley
> Cc: scim@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [scim] Name Internationalization
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>
>
> might want to look at vCard  (RFC6350).
>
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>
> Marc.
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> Le 2013-03-22 à 22:59, Shelley <randomshelley@gmail.com> a écrit :
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> As a SCIM service provider, we are trying to determine the best approach for
> accepting and managing names that may be federated from global consumers.
>
> Were there any considerations made in the SCIM core schema for using
> multi-valued attributes for the individual name components? The use of the
> "familyName" and "givenName" as opposed to "firstName"/"lastName" helps
> minimize a western/US-centric approach, but using three individual, singular
> attributes for these name components still hints at a particular name format
> that may not be global.
>
> For example, in many countries, individuals have a given name and two last
> names (rather than first name, middle name, last name). Does SCIM provide
> any recommendations for how to represent this using the existing name
> components? For example, are consumers expected to consolidate all last
> names into the single familyName attribute to accommodate this scenario?
> Likewise, there are many other cases [1,2] that don't quite cleanly fit into
> these singular name components.
>
> The "formattedName", "displayName", and "nickName" attributes help to
> mitigate some concerns around formatting names and addressing users, but
> we're still trying to iron out how to accept identity data from varying
> contributing sources as well as enable consumers to obtain the discrete name
> components.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name
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