Questions about OpenID Attribute Properties Draft 1

[Frank I. Reiter]

Dick Hardt wrote:
>> Why are address elements grouped by type rather than by address?  (IE,
>> why is it contact/postalcode/home rather than contact/home/postalcode?
>
> that way you can have contact/postalcode if you don't care
>
contact/default/postalcode would serve this function, no?
>>
>> Why are email addresses listed under Internet (/contact/internet/email)
>> but IM and web based contact information is not?
>
> that is strange, I thought they were under Internet
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Agree that you will have multiple email, but we saw that level of 
> categorization happening at the persona level rather then at the 
> schema level.
That makes good sense to me.

Frank.