Self Maintained Contact Information
Dec 7th, 2007 by Aswath
In yesterday’s post Chris Messina quotes Joseph Smarr who has laid out an import set of roles that help to clarify how pieces of applications should be architected: “ first of all, people have contact details like email addresses, webpage addresses (URLs), instant messaging handles, phone numbers… and any number of these identifiers can be used to discover someone (you do it now when you import your address book to a social networking site). In the citizen-centric model of the world, it’s up to individuals to maintain these identifiers, and to be very intentional about who they share their identifiers with …”
This is exactly what we do in EnThinnai. Here, the identifiers are stored in the user’s server and the access control list, which is under the control of the user, determines who has access to them.