Hi, TL;DR: stop requiring the "phone" attribute for person objects. This is something that I quickly brought up during the db-wg session at RIPE84 but thought would be good to bring up here as well. Currently you need to specify a phone number for person objects but not for role objects, which I think should be fixed (as in not require it for person objects either). While there is the argument to be made to not encourage use of person objects or whatever, I do think that we should make sure that they are functionally the same as to prevent people putting PII in role objects. This is so we can still keep track of how many personal contact objects there are, which would be more difficult if people used role objects for personal contacts. -Cynthia