3. In some areas of the world (India?), people *really* have only one name. Making the database resistent against these names doesn't help: I see no reason to lock them out from using other registries then the APNIC 'names fix' version.

Rather than locking out people from India, I believe that the correct approach is to enforce people to use NIC handles. We have been migrating to that for quite some time, and maybe now is the time to cut over.

One named persons might use a well known word as second name. Just like 'Singh' (Lion) at sikh people in India. ;-) Gabor