-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10.09.2004 at 19:47, Jeroen Massar wrote:
attributes in IRT records optional and to make the email address in the changed attribute a free form string (it does not /need/ to reference a person object, as long as people in each organization can agree on what should be put there). Nope, changing the e-mail lines to person objects is probably wiser indeed.
I think it is not wise to use nick handles in changed lines. Why? Because Persons leaves companies and their person objects get removed. What we have then is a very cryptic link into the void and nobody will every guess again, who has changed the object. True, this holds also for email addresses, but most often they are not so cryptic that one cannot deduce who it was who did the the change and at least to which company he belonged. OK, we can make nick handles a mandatory part of the changed lines and provide the DB with a mechanism that prevents from deleting person objects references this way. But would this be worth it? Cheers Hendrik - -- Hendrik T. Voelker HTV5-RIPE MCI EMEA Registrar Team UUNET Deutschland GmbH, Sebrathweg 20, 44149 Dortmund, GERMANY A MCI Company tel+49-231-972-1565 fax+49-231-972-1180 http://www.mci.com/de/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBRZxCUmmTUZJHml0RAmoJAJ99EA2DGYgGbgTLSX23AWfgwIqt1QCfaO70 ezo4QFakV5St4iqaor/pmW4= =jKle -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----