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

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Denis Walker wrote:

Yes, we (il.isoc) use it occasionally.  When we are revoking a customer's
ASN or IP range due to any number of reasons (failure to be multihomed,
for example), we will try email.  If that fails we try calling up the
phone number on record.  If that fails, we send registered snail mail to
the address on record.

Therefore, I do see value in retaining those fields.

-Hank

> Does anyone actually use the addresses and phone numbers from person
> objects? Or is all communication done these days by e-mail?
>
> 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?