On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Qebui Nehebkau < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the arguments you've presented so far suggest "address-levelN" > for > > N=1..4, with 4=region and 3=locality, is probably the simplest thing to > > do. I was hoping there might be other people with opinions, to give us > > different perspectives on this, but it seems nobody else cares. :-( > > Since you asked, I think the whole endeavour (of trying to tokenise an > address) is pointless and should be abandoned outright. :) > > Short of my ideal of *only* offering the full address (as used on a > label) as an opaque string, The majority of forms ask for tokenized data; my impression is this is necessary given their backends (be it columns in a user info database, a payment provider that requires tokenized address, etc.) So I don't think it's practical to impose address blob only on the web.
