Re: [Auth]a list of what we need the personal Data system to do.

[John]

Some random thoughts.

Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> 
> 1) hold personal Data (name, address, Phone #, CC#, ect)
> 2)be capable of holding the Data either Localy or, If desired, remotely
> on a providers Server.

I object to the "a provider". Should we not be considering multiple
specialized providers? That is the phone company can hold name and phone
number, UPS can hold the physical address, and so on...

*** No entity should hold more information about another entity in
excess of what they currently hold.***

What dotGNU should be is a way of exchanging that information
efficiently without taking power from the individual.

Random thought: Distributed database relationships... what normal form
is that?

John Le'Brecage