Re: [VCARDDAV] review of draft-cauchie-vcarddav-oma-cab-extensions

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Thu, 23 June 2011 14:37 UTC

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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:37:34 -0400
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] review of draft-cauchie-vcarddav-oma-cab-extensions
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Hi ,

--On June 22, 2011 4:35:41 PM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> 
wrote:

> 4. SERVICE seems somewhat underspecified; in particular the "label" is
> just a free-form name for the service, but it seems that different
> people might call the same service by different names, leading to
> confusion (e.g., "facebook" vs. "FaceBook", "Google" vs. "Gmail" vs.
> "Google Talk").

WRT SERVICE I would like to draw people's attention to 
<http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-daboo-vcard-service-type-00.txt> (which is 
now expired). This takes a different approach of defining a SERVICE-TYPE 
parameter for use on existing properties such as EMAIL and IM. This allow 
those communications properties to be "tagged" with the service provider 
identifier.

I wonder whether instead of SERVICE we should be using the existing vCard 
URL property combined with SERVICE-TYPE. The existing property already 
states "social networking site identifiers" as one possible use case. I 
realize this might make it a little bit harder to do a simple one-to-one 
mapping with OMA attributes, but I do think we should try and re-use 
existing vCard properties where ever it makes sense.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo