Policy-Discussion

[Bernhard Froehlich <ted AT convey.de>]

Evaldo Gardenali schrieb:
> Hi
>
> During the meeting, we came to the fact that currently we don't have a
> policy regarding names. I think we would need one, because I know or
> heard about the following situations:
>
> - Countries that have strict matching on First Name and Last Name
> - Countries that have strict matching on First Name, Middle Names, Last Name
> - Countries that allow you to have 20 first names to choose from at
> appropriate times
> - Countries that allow people to have a single name (a first conclusion
> would be that first name = last name, but it shouldnt appear twice
> - Countries that have fuzzy matching on First Name (so if you abbreviate
> from "Foobarblahblahblah" to "Foozie" its okay, provided that its usual
> to do so)
>   

Another one not so uncommon around here:
- People changing their last name after marriage
> I have heard some more, but cant remember right now... maybe I will add
> here.
>
> I would like ideas regarding CAcert policy for names, so we can actually
> serve people without creating more problems than we already have, and
> eventually solving some.
>   
The only idea that occured to me: The name(s) have to be the same on the 
ID document.
Of course this creates new problems, like names in unusual character 
sets or lots of names on the document, different capitalisation and 
several more.
I guess we'll have to leave the final decision to the assurer, who may 
accept "locally well known" variants on names.
For example one thing I always considered ok was the german "eszet" (ß) 
character which is represented in ID cards as SZ, since ID cards only 
use capital chars. But of course the name might have been czech or 
hungarian where "sz" is a not so uncommon combination...

Ted
;)

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