Re: [VCARDDAV] social networking id

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Marc Blanchet wrote:

> Hello,
>  Many people today defines themselves by their social networking ID, 
> nothing else: no tel, no email, no im, but facebook, twitter, 
> linkedin, plaxo, or <choose yours>
>
> URL can be used for providing the social networking id. However, I'm 
> not sure it is clear in the current draft for an implementor to use 
> URL for social networking ids. We don't want everybody starting to use 
> vendor name space or extensions for this.
>
> Morever, it could need to have some text info attached to it, 
> specifying the end-user string known for the social networking info. 
> Or we could rely on the UI to read the content of the URL and then 
> show a user friendly string to describe the URL to the end-user. For 
> example, the UI sees facebook.com in the URL, then shows "Facebook" to 
> the user. I'm for the latter.
>
> So my proposed change is just to add social networking wording and 
> examples to URL prop.
>
> -----
> OLD:
>    Purpose:  To specify a uniform resource locator associated with the
>       object that the vCard refers to.
> -----
> NEW:
>    Purpose:  To specify a uniform resource locator associated with the
>       object that the vCard refers to. Examples for individuals can be 
> personal web sites, blogs or social networking site identifiers.
>
> -----
> OLD:
>    Example:
>            URL:http://example.org/restaurant.french/~chezchic.html
>
> -----
> NEW:
>   Examples:
>         URL:http://example.org/restaurant.french/~chezchic.html
>     URL:http://twitters.org/myid
>     URL:http://facebooks.org/myname
>     URL:http://linkedins.org/myname

This looks sensible.

I am still wondering if applications might need to know if one of the 
URLs is a twitter URL, in the sence that it provides a particular type 
of service.