Re: [VCARDDAV] KIND in draft 15

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Tue, 21 December 2010 21:20 UTC

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:23:03 -0500
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Kevin Marks <kevinmarks@gmail.com>, Mike Douglass <douglm@rpi.edu>
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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] KIND in draft 15
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Hi Kevin,

--On December 21, 2010 1:12:44 PM -0800 Kevin Marks <kevinmarks@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Even if I grant you that this is true, you seem to be asserting that the
> GROUP/MEMBER data model is magically better and we should ignore the fact
> that it will pollute existing addressbooks with non-functional contacts
> by design.

What is a "non-functional" contact? It is perfectly feasible and legitimate 
for me to create an "individual" contact that just contains a name and 
nothing else. A KIND:group would be functionally equivalent to that in an 
address book that did not understand KIND:group.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo