[db-wg] phone number required for person objects

Hi Leo

On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 20:28, Leo Vegoda via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 10:04 AM Cynthia Revström <me at cynthia.re> wrote:
> >
> > I forgot to mention this
> >
> > > [...], why should we dictate what the mandatory technology is?
> >
> > I kinda agree with you here if you by "we" mean the db-wg, this might be a larger question that should involve multiple other working groups too. But the RIPE community should decide this imo.
>
> 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. 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.

cheers
denis
proposal author

>
> Regards,
>
> Leo
>
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