Ability to share Contact Lists Sample Clauses

Ability to share Contact Lists. The contact-List is an attribute of identities of the community member and, as such, rules can be associated to it. By default the Contact-List attribute is private, meaning that only the owner of the Contact-List can access the attribute. A community member has now the ability to retrieve the contact-List of one of his contact and optionally store the received contact as his own contacts. This is achieved by defining a rule that is associated to the Contact-List attribute of a particular identity (partialId). The rule will allow a set of identities of users to access the attribute or may require permission when the attribute is accessed (read). Note that if a user has access to somebody‟s Contact-List, he can get it, extract some contact to make them become his own contacts but cannot share somebody‟s Contact-List as a whole with other members. Example I have a Contact-List that I want to share with some of my contacts. I create a rule that I associate to the Contact-List attribute of one of my identities. This rule contains an identity condition where I define the list of identities that is allowed to see my Contact-List attribute and actions/statuses to allow (status) read (action) of the attribute; When the attribute is accessed (action=read) , the rule is evaluated and the identity condition is checked. In that case if the requester is part of the identity list, the condition is met and the rule can apply (action= read => status= allow). The requester can read my Contact-List.