> On Apr 9, 2017, at 5:42 PM, Chris Lambertus <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> tl;dr Adding title field is fine. I see it as secretary's responsibility to 
>> harmonize iclas.txt and ldap. 
> 
> Ack. 
> 
>> We might as well add Suffix to LDAP to cater for the 23 III and 6 II that we 
>> have. I've added a comment to IIINFRA-13850
> 
> Agreed. Are there any other person-data related fields we should consider 
> capturing/adding? Now’s the time, since I’m committed to updating the infra 
> ldap/adduser tooling at this point.
> 
I just took a look at some self-proclaimed Name Data Entry Standards and it 
looks like adding Prefix (or title) and Suffix should do fine for our purposes. 
Sometimes Middle Name(s) is also called out but I don't think there is any 
reason for us to distinguish Middle Name(s) from Given Name. And if John P 
Erwin III MD shows up we will just have to deal with it.

Craig

https://www.lehigh.edu/lewis/data_standards.htm#Name
https://www.lehigh.edu/lewis/suffix.htm

> 
> 
>>> On Apr 9, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> Once created, we need to nail down the responsibility for updating
>>> names.  Given that names change infrequently and at least one copy
>>> (iclas.txt) isn't updateable by users themselves, this responsibility
>>> should go to the secretary (Craig, please confirm?), and the necessary
>>> tooling needs to be in place to allow the secretarial team to do so.
>> 
>> Secretary is up to this task, given adequate tooling. 
> 
> Excellent. I think this will be a good use for the existing LDAP/ICLA 
> comparison tool, which could probably be extended to allow for some simple 
> “on the fly” editing of the various fields to correct any discrepancies.
> 
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> The format of a new-account-request isn't flexible, but is workable
>>> (I'd prefer JSON or YAML, but adding still more fields at the end is
>>> probably easier):
> 
> I’m not opposed in theory, but grafting a JSON or YAML parser onto the 
> existing ap-adduser code is out of scope right now, and more than likely not 
> worth the effort. If we want to go down that road, it would make more sense 
> to rewrite the acreq process from the ground up.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the input so far. Technical/implementation details can be captured 
> in INFRA-13850.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 

Craig L Russell
[email protected]


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