UTW 2024 What is a Valid Person Name?

EVENT: Unicode Technology Workshop (UTW)
DATE: October 22-23, 2024

DESCRIPTION:
The CLDR Person Name subcommittee is currently working on guidelines and a specification for the validation of personal names. The specifications being developed do not replicate government standards, nor do they provide statistical confidence that a name is real. But they will provide different levels of validation and flexibility that should ensure that a validated name is composed of characters appropriate for a locale, and that do not obfuscate its meaning, nor contain patterns known not to exist in millions of actual names that have been analyzed from around the world.
This presentation will walk through the research and thought that has gone into the development of the person name validation specification, the levels of validation (from free-form to lenient to strict), what it can be used for, and its limitations.

BIO:
Mike McKenna is a Software Architect and Director of Globalization Engineering at Square (a division of Block, Inc.) and is responsible for next-generation globalization frameworks. Mike has over three decades of internationalization and standards experience and has a background in global user experience design, application design, social games, systems engineering, database internals, and ethnographic research. Before Square, Mike has held globalization leadership positions at PayPal, Zynga, Yahoo! (now OAuth), CommerceOne, and Sybase (now part of SAP), as well as consulting for several Fortune 500 companies. Mike is the chair of the CLDR Person Group subcommittee.

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