[Ietf-not43] #7 Email addresses in contacts

[Shane Kerr]

Andrew Newton wrote:
> #7 Email addresses in contacts
> 
> FIRS seems to require a contact to have their email address in the DN.
> 
>  From draft-ietf-crips-firs-contact-02:
> 
>>      The inetContactSyntax is unstructured, in that it uses      
>> standardized procedures to produce heavily-normalized email      
>> addresses rather than using structured syntax rules. The principle 
>>      reason for this is due to conflicting syntax rules in different 
>>      canonical email addressing rules, with these rules preventing the 
>>      use of a common syntax. 
> 
> 
> This means that in order to reference the contact, a referral or 
> reference to the contact must expose the email address of the contact. I 
> think this has privacy implications all over it.

Plus in our (RIPE NCC) schema, e-mail address is an optional attribute 
for contacts, and role contacts can have multiple e-mail addresses. 
We cannot elegantly use a system where e-mail is the lookup key.

-- 
Shane Kerr
RIPE NCC