[db-wg] phone number required for person objects

Personally, I think that we should write e-mail into the policy as I
do think requiring a policy change to change this is reasonable given
how I don't see this changing in the foreseeable future.
Sure it might be different in 10 years, but maybe we can be ok with
needing to use the PDP if/when that occurs.

-Cynthia

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 8:58 PM denis walker <ripedenis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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