[rfc-dist] RFC 4770 on vCard Extensions for Instant Messaging (IM)

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        RFC 4770

        Title:      vCard Extensions for Instant Messaging 
                    (IM) 
        Author:     C. Jennings, J. Reschke, Ed.
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       January 2007
        Mailbox:    fluffy at cisco.com, 
                    julian.reschke at greenbytes.de
        Pages:      7
        Characters: 11077
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-jennings-impp-vcard-08.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4770.txt

This document describes an extension to vCard to support Instant
Messaging (IM) and Presence Protocol (PP) applications.  IM and PP
are becoming increasingly common ways of communicating, and users
want to save this contact information in their address books.  It
allows a URI that is associated with IM or PP to be specified inside
a vCard.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and 
suggestions for improvements.Please refer to the current edition of the 
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