[VCARDDAV] vCard 4 - let's publish

[Cyrus Daboo <[e-mail]>]

Hi folks,
At this time my feeling is that we should go ahead with publication of 
vcard 4.0 (and the XML spec) as-is. These documents have been in 
development and review for several years now and everyone has had a chance 
to comment (of course IETF last call is still to be done so an opportunity 
to comment further naturally exists).

vCard 4 is based on the well-founded technology of earlier vCard 
specifications. It represents a comprehensive solution to contact 
information, and not just personal contacts (e.g., see the recent draft on 
calendar resource information that adds vCard properties specific to the 
calendaring process). It now has easy extensibility built-in, via IANA 
registrations, so new properties, for e.g., social networking, are easy to 
define and add by consensus.

I do believe that we should help other groups define simple mappings 
between their formats and vCard. At this point I do not believe that is a 
major effort - certainly not one that should hold up vCard 4 at this time.

So I would urge the chairs and ADs to move our working group documents 
along the standards process at this time. We can continue to work with OMA 
and W3C through liaisons and their participation in this open IETF working 
group.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo