Re: [VCARDDAV] wg concensus to publish? NO

[Rohit Khare <[e-mail]>]

On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> I am a little confused by this statement. What "brand name" and  
> which "non-IETF" standard are you referring to?

You are correct, and I should be more careful. The pre-XML vCard3  
standard (RFC 2425/6) is a fairly direct mapping of the work of the  
Versit Consortium, as acknowledged in the RFC (as was vCard 2.1 at the  
IMC, in turn).

You are also correct that I shouldn't call vCard "non-IETF", since rev  
3.0 is a Proposed Standard regardless of its origins. vCard4 is a  
significant improvement (but all the same, a significant departure)  
from the line-by-line encoding that's in the marketplace today.

The sense in which I believe my observation was intended to be fair  
and helpful is that the term "vCard" as used by range of products,  
from embedded hardware to the latest in social Web services in the  
cloud, all refer to the loosely interoperable line-by-line encoding  
that's been in use for almost 20 years.

Best,
   Rohit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
> Versitcard was originally proposed in 1995 by the Versit Consortium,  
> which consisted of Apple, AT&T Technologies (later Lucent), IBM and  
> Siemens. In December 1996, ownership of the format was handed over  
> to the Internet Mail Consortium, a trade association for companies  
> with an interest in Internet e-mail.
See also the press release handing off to Paul Hoffman, http://www.imc.org/pdi/versit-to-imc.html