Thanks Leo. Just to add another thought, if we are looking at some means of indication of qualification of contact details it might also be useful to be able to indicate if the data is corporate or personal. That could help a lot with making automated decisions on what data to present in different situations.

Cheers

Denis

Co-chair DB-WG

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024, 00:21 Leo Vegoda, <leo@vegoda.org> wrote:

Hi Denis,

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 at 15:16, denis walker via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
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> Hi
>
> Maybe Leo or Dmitry could give an intro into what they mean by 'alternative modes of contact' so people can think about it before the discussion.

Sure. We were thinking about making it possible for people to indicate
when they had an OTT service attached to a number, like WhatsApp. We
were thinking about this because postal mail and fax use are in
decline, while phone is much less useful than it was 20 years ago.

Kind regards,

Leo