Mandatory vs optional fields

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Forest Gregg

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Dec 9, 2013, 12:12:16 PM12/9/13
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Where is the thinking of required vs optional fields in the results standard?

For example, are

given_name,
additional_name,
family_name,
suffix,
name

all required, or maybe only 'name' is required and all the other
fields are optional?

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Forest


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Derek Willis

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Dec 10, 2013, 10:16:35 AM12/10/13
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The current thinking is basically this: name and family_name are required, the others are optional. This will fit in those cases where all we have is a last name (name & family_name would be the same) but also not demand that people hunt down suffixes and additional names for every candidate.
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