It’s All in a Name: Display Names in Second Life
Identity and Expression, Privacy and Protection, Second Life | (10)
Linden Lab announced the addition of display names to Second Life, permitting residents to have a name which, well, displays in addition to the account name chosen on sign-up (gone is the requirement to pick a last name from a pre-generated list).
Back in the days of M when everything was done in secret and every third person on the Grid had signed an NDA for some reason or other - they were in the mesh beta, or the Viewer Beta...I was asked to contribute to an NDA'd display name messaging roundtable or something. It wasn't a roundtable on the feature ...