openownership / data-standard

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) is an open standard providing a specification for modelling and publishing information on the beneficial ownership and control of corporate vehicles
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reconsider statementId length constraints #731

Open kathryn-ods opened 1 month ago

kathryn-ods commented 1 month ago

Just noting that the statementId requirement of being 32-64 characters has been a bit challenging for Rachel and I when working with PSC/GLEIF mappings to BODS 0.4

I think the constraints make sense in that we want to make sure statementIds are sufficiently unique/not unwieldly. However there's a risk of frustration when trying to construct statementIds that are made up of useful information e.g. prefix + registration number + date. It's not ideal to remove useful info/add filler in these cases.