Re: [VCARDDAV] Rename SEX to GENDER

I refer you back to Sarah's post + references:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/vcarddav/current/msg01778.html

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Joseph Smarr <jsmarr@gmail.com> wrote:

> And I'm even more against using the ISO values...as I've said repeatedly,
> developers do come across raw data formats all the time, and seeing "sex: 0"
> is totally opaque, whereas "gender: male" is totally obvious. This really
> does matter for ease of adoption and ultimately compliance and interop. The
> suggestion from PoCo was to use two reserved values "male" and "female" plus
> letting people include an arbitrary string for alternative values. Tantek
> has made a slightly more powerful-but-complex proposal that has a single M/F
> char plus an arbitrary string. But both are much clearer than the numeric
> ISO values. I can never remember whether it's 0-based or 1-based, which is
> female vs male, etc. This will be a problem in practice, and achieves no
> interop gains by "using an existing standard" IMO.
>
> Thanks, js
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Simon Perreault <
> simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-11-02 11:44, Brian Suda wrote:
>> > My guess as to why most sign-up forms use GENDER rather than SEX might
>> > be due to blanket filters stopping words like SEX from getting
>> > through.
>>
>> It may also be a language artifact. For example, French forms tend to
>> use "sexe" more often than "genre".
>>
>> Anyway, the point remains: gender is more often used than sex.
>>
>> Simon
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