RE: [db-wg] another attribute for organisation object

["Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <]

  Hi Engin, all!

[ apologies for potentially replying out of synch,
  I haven't read to the end of my mail yet... ]

  2 comments:
  . format: unless we add an (issuing) country indication, the string in
    itself might not mean anything

  . verification / use: who is supoosed to do what with this piece of
    information?
    And, depending on what we want to do with this info,
    is it "help-yourself", or is the NCC expected to do any sort of
    verification?
    If the latter, what would the cost vs. benefit of doing so be?

  Wilfried.
  ______________________________________________________________________

From the feedback we've got, it looks like we want another
attribute in the organisation object, in which users can put
an "organisation number" or an "organisation-id".  This can be
a VAT number, or a number assigned by a certain Chamber of
Commerce, or any kind of other ID.

We would propose calling it "business-id:". We have thought of
"org-id:" but the org-ID is the string we will have in
"organisation:" attribute, so calling another attribute
"org-id:" would be confusing. "national-id:" would have been
another idea, but some IDs might not be a national one, like
an ID assigned uniquely in the EU.

So the proposal is to add

business-id:    [optional] [multiple]

as a new attribute. It is optional, as an organisation might
not have such an ID. It is multiple, because an organisation
might have multiple such IDs.


Thanks and best regards,
--
Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Database Group

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