Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Nicknames
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PRECIS P. Saint-Andre
Internet-Draft Filament
Obsoletes: 7700 (if approved) April 5, 2016
Intended status: Standards Track
Expires: October 7, 2016
Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings
Representing Nicknames
draft-ietf-precis-7700bis-00
Abstract
This document describes methods for handling Unicode strings
representing memorable, human-friendly names (called "nicknames",
"display names", or "petnames") for people, devices, accounts,
websites, and other entities. This document obsoletes RFC 7700.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Nickname Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3. Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.4. Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Use in Application Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.1. Reuse of PRECIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2. Reuse of Unicode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.3. Visually Similar Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Appendix A. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
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 such as a device,
account, contact, or website. Such names are variously called
"nicknames" (e.g., in chat room applications), "display names" (e.g.,
in Internet mail), or "petnames" (see [PETNAME-SYSTEMS]); for
consistency, these are all called "nicknames" in this document.
Nicknames are commonly supported in technologies for textual chat
rooms, 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] [RFC7701], and Centralized Conferencing (XCON)
[RFC5239] [XCON-SYSTEM]. Recent chat room 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
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