What is a Valid Person Name?
The CLDR Person Name subcommittee is currently working on guidelines and a specification for 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 it’s 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 it’s limitations.