Re: [VCARDDAV] Question about SOURCE property in RFC 6350

[Erwin Rehme <[e-mail]>]

On 01/ 8/14 06:31 AM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Le 2014-01-07 17:22, Erwin Rehme a écrit :
>>     Special notes:  The SOURCE property is used to provide the means by
>>        which applications knowledgable in the given directory service
>>        protocol can obtain additional or more up-to-date information 
>> from
>>        the directory service.  It contains a URI as defined in 
>> [RFC3986  <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986>]
>>        *and/or other information referencing the vCard to which the
>>        information pertains.*   When directory information is available
>>        from more than one source, the sending entity can pick what it
>>        considers to be the best source, or multiple SOURCE properties 
>> can
>>        be included.
>>
>> Does the "and/or other information..." statement mean that the value is
>> can be "free form" text and not just a uri?
>
> That text was present in RFC 2425. I don't know what it means. I don't 
> think it allows a non-URI value.
>
> Does anyone know of non-URI SOURCEs in the wild?
An export of a Yahoo contact contains "SOURCE:Yahoo! AddressBook 
(http://address.yahoo.com)".
-- Erwin
>
> Simon