Re: [regrep-comment] RIM 2.0 Specification - question on User class&address attribute

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

Joel,

There are no interoperability issues. There are fixed attributes like (street,
city, stateOrProvince, country, postalCode etc.). In addition there are Slots
that can have any name, value and slotType.

Registries and clients support both fixed attributes and extensible Slot
attributes.

"Munter, Joel D" wrote:

> Farrukh,
> Please pardon my ignorance.  If the input is as flexible as you describe,
> how does someone (or machine) "reading" this PostalAddress field know how to
> interpret the PostalAddress?  Can this interpretation at runtime lead to
> interoperability issues?
> Joel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Farrukh Najmi [mailto:Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 11:42 AM
> To: Mahadeo, Mark
> Cc: Ebxml Registry (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [regrep-comment] RIM 2.0 Specification - question on User
> class &address attribute
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> The rationale behind requiring a PostalAddress but having all its
> attributes as optional is that we wanted to make sure that
> there was a PostalAddress of some form or another. We wanted to be less
> prescriptive on which exact attributes would
> makeup the PostalAddress. The reason for being less prescriptive is that
> PostalAddresses tend to vary quite a bit with regional differences.
> We provided the most likely attributes that may be used. However, we
> expect that any other attributes we did not provide for
> a specific region can be covered by the Slot based attribute extension
> mechanism in RIM 2.0.
>
> So in summary, we want to make sure that a User or an Organization have
> some sort of a PostalAddress. We do not wish to dictate what is
> the exact makeup of that PostalAddress.
>
> Please let us know if this rationale does not provide a satisfactory
> explanation to your question.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Farrukh
>
> "Mahadeo, Mark" wrote:
>
> > In the RIM 2.0 specification document, the "User" class has a required
> > attribute "address" of type "PostalAddress".  The "PostalAddress"
> > class has no required attributes.
> >
> > I interpret from this that a User object must have an address
> > specified, but that the address may have no values specified.  This
> > doesn't entirely make sense to me...help please.
> >
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Regards,
Farrukh