On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:27:35PM -0500, Paul Madsen wrote: > If you dont have a pressing need for the user's gender, why ask for it?
Customer service -- it's nice knowing whether to address the individual as Mr. or Ms. before picking up the phone or drafting a written note. Our UI model is to always show individuals what data the OP sent, and always give each individual the choice of deleting/unsetting the information, so anyone can choose to have an un-gendered profile. Socially I expect there's a risk here of upsetting individuals who do not identify with either gender, but I would hope that such individuals would use OPs that, like us, allow them not to declare a gender. It's a good point, though. We haven't gone through UAT yet, but I should probably change the unset gender label from "Please select" to "Unspecified" to more clearly indicate that we don't need the info. -Peter > On 12/15/2009 12:12 PM, Peter Watkins wrote: > > Gender wouldn't normally be on my list, but since it's in AX Schema and > > available from one of our two featured directed identity OPs (Yahoo), we > > will be adding that to our user profile model and requesting it from OPs > > when our users indicate that we may ask OPs for contact info. _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
