[scim] Name Internationalization

[Shelley <[e-mail]>]

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