Frank, +1 to all your points about this proposed vocabulary.
It's not that the submission is lacking, it's just that even with what appear to be the very simplest types of data, the issues of classification and categorization become exponentially complex very fast. For example, the OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ) Technical Committee's Extensible Name and Address Language (xNAL) (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ciq) is designed to support: * Addresses of 241+ Countries * Represented in 5,000+ languages/dialects * With 130+ Address Formats, and * With 36+ Personal Name formats (This all from their FAQ at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/faq.php -- highly recommended for background on why the subject is so complex.) I believe that with regard to data interchange vocabulary, OpenID must, just like with all its other specs, take a road that is "as lightweight as possible but no lighter" (to paraphrase one of my favorite Einstein quotes). Figuring out exactly where/how to reach that golden state with regard to vocabulary is where the rocket science lies. =Drummond -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank I. Reiter Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Questions about OpenID Attribute Properties Draft 1 Barry Ferg wrote: > The first draft of the OpenID Attribute Properties specification has > been posted to > "http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-properties-list-1_0-01.html";. > Perhaps some of this has been discussed to death already, somewhere, and if so please forgive me. Here are a few questions that come to mind as I read this spec. Why are address elements grouped by type rather than by address? (IE, why is it contact/postalcode/home rather than contact/home/postalcode? Why are email addresses listed under Internet (/contact/internet/email) but IM and web based contact information is not? Did you consider personal/business/etc. email addresses? Classifying my email addresses this way is at least as important to me as classifying my telephone numbers this way. Frank. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs
