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Why do we need the given, middle and family name to be separate? #9

Open c00kiemon5ter opened 2 months ago

c00kiemon5ter commented 2 months ago

Related to #3 and #4; do we really need to figure out how many strings we can fit in a given name, a middle name or a family name? Are there services that require this separation to justify the time to understand how these attributes are represented in different protocols?

I would argue that having a display name (and/or username) is enough. If someone wants to do further processing to disassemble the display name into a given/middle/family name, they can apply all the logic they want to successfully do this.

What's the driver that mandates that we need to provide this information in separate pieces?