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ajeanmahoney opened this issue Jan 17, 2025 · 6 comments
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Ability to handle names that consist of a single letter #1204

ajeanmahoney opened this issue Jan 17, 2025 · 6 comments
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An author has requested that her name not be displayed with a period after it in the RFC header. Her full name is "Q Misell". Currently xml2rfc places a period after her first name because it creates an initial from <author fullname="Q Misell" role="editor" surname="Misell">:

Current:

Automated Certificate Management Environment              Q. Misell, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                                  AS207960
Intended status: Standards Track                         14 January 2025
Expires: 18 July 2025

Requested:

Automated Certificate Management Environment               Q Misell, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                                  AS207960
Intended status: Standards Track                         14 January 2025
Expires: 18 July 2025

Something to consider, however, is what a code change to support this would do with author entries where a period is not provided in the initials attribute because xml2rfc adds them automatically.

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kesara commented Jan 21, 2025

I didn't find any RFC specifying the author name format. The examples in RFC 7841 has the format: initial. surname. 1

Another option with current xml2rfc 8000 , is to just display the surname.
This can be done by adding initials="".

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  1. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7841#appendix-A.1 ↩

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cabo commented Jan 21, 2025

I didn't find any RFC specifying the author name format.

That would be RFC 7322, Section 4.12. for "Author's Address" or "Authors' Addresses" Section, and Section 4.1.1 for the front page.

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Add this to the collection of evidence that we need to stop trying to disect names and treat them as blobs.

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Yup. Single letter first names aren't that unusual, e.g. former UN General Secretary U Thant

I know someone whose last name is O, no punctuation, just O

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Just a note that this issue affects RFC-to-be 9799, which just entered AUTH48 state.

@kesara kesara added the rfc waiting An RFC-to-be is in the "Tools Issue" state and cannot be published until the issue is resolved label Jun 2, 2025
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kesara commented Jun 2, 2025

@mferguson-rpc, Is the workaround I mentioned in #1204 (comment) acceptable for this RFC-to-be?

For example:

    <author fullname="Q Misell" initials="" role="editor" surname="Misell">

will generate:

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                       Misell, Ed.

and

Author's Address

   Q Misell (editor)
   ...

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