RE: Comments to Qualified Certificates draft

[Stefan Santesson <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This sound reasonable.

Could you help me suggest what we should put into the draft.
Surname or GivenName as mandatory attribute for registered name in CHOICE II.

It doesn't seem that you all have the same opinion here. My knowledge here
is unfortunately very limited.

We should though keep in mind that CHOICE I (commonName) also may be used
for any name form.

/Stefan

At 02:11 PM 2/19/99 -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> > At 10:49 AM 2/18/99 +0100, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> >> --- Message on the SEIS mailing list (list@seis.nc-forum.com)
> >> 
> >> Hi, >The subject field SHALL include one of the following choices
> >> of sets of
> > mandatory attributes:
> >> >Choice I: countryName commonName >Choice II: countryName
> >> givenName surname
>
> > One other comment.  Individuals with a single name, usually
> > rendered as a surname, are fairly common in Indonesia - and
> > possibly some other countries as well.  X.402 section
> > 18.3.12 defines a personal name with surname mandatory and
> > the other three subfields (given name, initials, and
> > generation) optional.  I believe that the Indonesian
> > situation is the reason why, and that that definition is
> > correct.
>
>Yes, the point that insisting on two part names is wrong has been made 
>before.  (It's discouraging that apparently that was ignored...)
>
>It seems more logical to consider the single name a given name (since
>that's what it is) but what the heck.
>
>On "given name, initials..." does that imply that given name is the
>first given name and initials are the starting letter of the
>subsequent given names?  If so, that's not the right definition.  Many
>people use a given name other than their first name as the name by
>which they are known, so that their full name looks like "G. Paul
>Koning".  Insisting on the first name being given in full is not
>correct.
>
>	paul
>
>
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