[Chapter-delegates] Preview on ISOC website developments

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Khaled KOUBAA wrote:
> Alan,
> Good you raised this argument.
> And both situation are logic, but in my point of view a membership 
> system should provide at any time a reliable statistic and information 
> about the real number of member.
> As I told if I have the right to be member three time each time with 
> different data or more being member twice using the same data, this is 
> not reliable.
>   
In my perception, each record in a database should have a unambiguous,
globally unique identifier. An email address does not fit that criteria.
It can change, be shared, can become invalid, be recycled for another
person, etc. Thus it cannot be used to distinguish one record from
another. In the present case, the membership number should be the one
distinguishing one member from another.

I agree with Alan there are situations where several people share a
single email address. I have 2 such members in my chapter, one of them
being virtually inexistent for ISOC. I also agree some members may want
to receive communications from ISOC on several e-mail addresses.

Patrick