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When exchanging master data, such as master data for an Accounting Point, there are often a need to include one or mere communication means, such as telephone or e-mail, and the related communication address (number). In CIM today we can find the communication means as attributes in various CIM classes, such as in Enterprise.Common.New Classes.TelephoneNumber.
However, the number of available types of communication means will increases over time, see for instance UN/CEFACT 3155 Communication means type code (https://service.unece.org/trade/untdid/d23a/tred/tred3155.htm), which currently have identified 47 possible types of communication means.
Hence, we suggest adding a general CommunicationDetail class having a type-attribute of type CommunicationMeansTypeList (enumeration) and a completeNumber attribute. This will be in line with the corresponding UN/CEFACT Core Component ACC “Communication”, see UN/CEFACT Core Components Library (UN/CCL) (https://unece.org/trade/uncefact/unccl).