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Re: [VCARDDAV] draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav: should support for vCard 4.0 be recommended?

Anil SRIVASTAVA <Anil.Srivastava@Sun.COM> Tue, 01 September 2009 21:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav: should support for vCard 4.0 be recommended?
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My vote is for a SHOULD for vCard 4.0

Anil

On Tue Sep 01 2009 13:31:12 GMT-0700 (PDT) , Alexey Melnikov
<alexey.melnikov@isode.com> wrote:

> Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> 
>> Hi Alexey,
>>
>> --On September 1, 2009 6:10:18 PM +0100 Alexey Melnikov
>> <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> I have just posted draft -08 that contains all the changes listed
>>>> here. Hopefully this is now ready for IESG last call?
>>>
>>> I didn't hear answer to my main question: why is this document requiring
>>> support for vCard 3.0 and not for vCard 4.0?
>>
>> It needs to support both. Legacy vCard data will be around for a long
>> time and we don't know how quickly clients will adopt it. We have
>> CardDAV implementations already using vCard 3 so I think that is
>> strong justification for keeping it as-is.
> 
> The document as written says that support for vCard 3 is a MUST and
> doesn't say anything about [I-D.ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev], apart for
> saying it is "in works". I feel this is a bit weak.
> 
> I would really like to hear clear consensus from the WG that either this
> should stay as is, or that [I-D.ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev] should be a SHOULD.
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