Re: [address-policy-wg] 2005-08 New Policy Proposal

[Pim van Pelt <]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:27:27PM +0200, Denis Walker wrote:
| Does anyone actually use the addresses and phone numbers from person
| objects? Or is all communication done these days by e-mail?
I occasionally use the phone and faxnumbers.

| The address and phone attributes are mandatory and e-mail is optional in
| a person object. Is this the wrong way round for the way the data is
| used today?
I don't think so, no. Not every customer of ours actually has or uses
e-mail. Telephonenumbers are somewhat more common knowledge. Also,
telephonenumbers are more intrusive so if one's complete IT
infrastructure is failing or causing trouble, I'd rather use phone.

| Just as a suggestion, perhaps address and phone details should only be
| mandatory in organisation and role objects and optional in person
| objects. Then you are more likely to be listing company information
| rather than individual information. Perhaps this would be less of a
| privacy issue.
This makes sense to me.

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