[db-wg] Proposal: make phone number optional in person objects

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:43:20PM +0000, Shane Kerr wrote:

> "person" is the name of the person, so I'd say that needs to exist.
> "address" probably should be optional.
> "phone" probably should be optional.
> "nic-hdl" is the key, so that needs to exist.
> "mnt-by" is used to protect the object, so that needs to exist.
> "changed" probably should be optional.
> "source" is required to distinguish between RPSL sources, so that needs
> to exist.

agree with all of this.

> I'm happy to include "address" and "changed" in the list of optional
> attributes!

So, that would mean the business logic should mandate at least one out of those
attributes to be present - or we should extend the proposal to make
the whole person object optional (what's the point in having a person
object just with a name?  Well, could hide the IM crediential in remarks ...)

-Peter