So, like many UASG discussions, this is very enlightening from an academic point of view. However, my question after all of these considerations is: what are the reasonable next steps to take in relation to making this into some sort of guideline that we can recommend to third parties who need a simple answer?

PS: There are 3 very active Marks/Marc on this group, so I'd suggest the list always use the first letter of our surnames to make it less confusing.

Regards,
--
Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website]
In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)

On August 14, 2020 3:33:08 PM GMT-03:00, Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> wrote:
Writing a single regexp is probably forbiddingly complicated (and I say 
that as someone who once wrote a 25-line regexp and used it in 
production), but writing two might work well.

One that accepts most 
valid names and accepts noting invalid, and one that rejects 
common/assumedly common errors and accepts everything that's valid (and 
some errors). These should be simple to write, and yield three answers: 
good, bad and uncertain.

Arnt
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