[db-wg] phone number required for person objects

Hi Denis,

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:58 AM denis walker <ripedenis at gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> > I think that the reason phone was mandatory is that it was the
> > de-facto standard. I agree that e-mail is now. But will it remain so?
> > If we are building for the future then we should consider the
> > possibility that the future will look different from today.
>
> The policy proposal relates to today and going forwards. We can't
> guess what tech will be the most widely used tomorrow.

Yes.

> So either we
> write email into the policy today and change the policy if and when
> that changes, or we write into the policy something like "One
> mandatory means of contact must be defined in the ROLE object. This
> one method will be determined by RIPE community consensus and may be
> changed in the future if the community consensus prefers an
> alternative method." The wording is a bit clumsy but more generalised
> and allows changes to the contact method without a policy update.

I was actually suggesting that instead of saying that technology #1 is
mandatory and technology #2 is optional we just say that one of the
supported technologies must be listed. Then we can add and remove
technologies as needed without having to make decisions about what
people *must* use.

But if we must define a single technology that is mandatory then
e-mail is a better choice than phone.

Kind regards,

Leo