Re: [scim] data format

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 29 August 2012 12:43 UTC

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On 8/29/12 1:08 AM, Leif Johansson wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 03:17 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> On 8/28/12 6:44 PM, Trey Drake wrote:
>>> Peter,
> 
>>> Would this be in addition to or in lieu of the JSON and XML 
>>> formats?
> 
>> Trey, that is a good question. There's an XML representation for
>>  vCard4 (RFC 6351) and I've contributed to a document defining a 
>> JSON representation (draft-bhat-vcarddav-json), so we could 
>> potentially use those (which seems preferable to defining yet 
>> another one-off data model with both JSON and XML
>> representations). Ideally, I think we'd settle on just one
>> mandatory-to-implement representation of whatever data model we
>> choose.
> 
> My recollection is that the wg in Vancouver expressed a pretty
> clear consensus that it wanted to deprecate the XML representation
> in favor of JSON. This will obviously need to be confirmed on the
> list but it probably means that if vCard is to be considered that
> JSON version is going to be important.

Noted. I've forwarded your message to the chair of the VCARDDAV WG so
he's aware that SCIM folks might have an interest.

Peter

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