On 1 Sep 2015, at 14:44, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet wrote:
[...]
-- Abstract:
The abstract could be beefed up against? Maybe say what a nickname
is in
this context?
[Edit: "Against"? I meant "a bit".]
Good idea.
I suggest:
This document describes methods for handling Unicode strings
representing memorable, human-friendly names (variously called
"nicknames", "display names", or "petnames") for people, devices,
accounts, websites, and other entities.
That WFM.
[...]
-- 1.1, 2nd paragraph:
People really use "petname" for this? Who knew?
Yes. Perhaps a pointer to
http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html would be
helpful?
I think Section 1.1 could use a bit of clarification through regarding
terminology, something like the following...
###
A number of technologies and applications provide the ability for a
person to choose a memorable, human-friendly name in a communications
context, or to set such a name for another entity entity such as a
device, account, contact, or website. Such names are variously
called "nicknames" (e.g., in chatroom applications), "display names"
(e.g., in Internet mail), or "petnames" (see [1]); for consistency,
these are all called "nicknames" in this document.
Nicknames are commonly supported in technologies for textual
chatrooms, e.g., Internet Relay Chat [RFC2811] and multi-party chat
technologies based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
(XMPP) [RFC6120] [XEP-0045], the Message Session Relay Protocol
(MSRP) [RFC4975] [I-D.ietf-simple-chat], and Centralized Conferencing
(XCON) [RFC5239] [I-D.boulton-xcon-session-chat]. Recent chatroom
technologies also allow internationalized nicknames because they
support characters from outside the ASCII range [RFC20], typically by
means of the Unicode character set [Unicode]. Although such
nicknames tend to be used primarily for display purposes, they are
sometimes used for programmatic purposes as well (e.g., kicking users
or avoiding nickname conflicts).
A similar usage enables a person to set their own preferred display
name or to set a preferred display name for another user (e.g., the
"display-name" construct in the Internet message format [RFC5322] and
[XEP-0172] in XMPP).
Memorable, human-friendly names are also used in contexts other than
personal messaging, such as names for devices (e.g., in a network
visualization application), websites (e.g., for bookmarks in a web
browser), accounts (e.g., in a web interface for a list of payees in
a bank account), people (e.g., in a contact list application), and
the like.
The rules specified in this document can be applied in all of the
foregoing contexts.
To increase the likelihood that memorable, human-friendly names will
work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world,
this document defines rules for preparing, enforcing, and comparing
internationalized nicknames.
That also WFM. (And for the record, I really didn't expect my "petname"
observation to be actionable. But I like the proposed text.)
...
[1] http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html
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Peter
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https://andyet.com/
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