Re: [VCARDDAV] Miscellaneous comments

["Javier Godoy" <[e-mail]>]

Simon Perreault wrote:

>On 2010-07-18 08:12, Javier Godoy wrote:
>> 1. In draft version 12 the property TYPE was splitted into TYPE (home/work)
>> and FMTTYPE (content type). However, there are some examples using TYPE
>> instead of FMTTYPE:
>> Section 6.4.1 (TYPE=text;TYPE=voice)
>
>That's not supposed to be FMTTYPE.

Oops... I don't know why I include it with the other occurrences. Sorry.

>> Section 6.7.5 (TYPE=audio/basic)
>> Section 6.8.2 (TYPE=application/pgp-keys)
>
>Good catch! Thanks.


>> 2. NAME. "The NAME property is used to convey the display name of the
>> entity to which the directory information pertains"
>>
>> Shouldn't the display name be choosen by the implementation? There is
>> already a mandatory FN property from which the display name could be 
>> derived.
>>
>> I remember this issue was discussed before, but I cannot find the rationale
>> for not removing the NAME property.
>
>We inherited NAME from vCard 3.0

NAME is inherited from RFC 2425, thus it should have been intended as a 
minimal profile-independent representation of the display name (not only for 
vCard but also for other "directory profiles" that never existed).

>I, for one, have no clue how it could be useful.
>
>Does anyone know how it is being used currently?

>and I don't think its removal has ever been discussed.

I agree it seems we never discussed it, though it was proposed
http://www.vcarddav.org/issues.xhtml#176
"The NAME (RFC2425) property is redundant with FN (RFC2426)"
Closed without action on 2008-06-09

And yes, I said "+1" to closing it, but I cannot remember why... now I think 
we should do something about it.



Best Regards

Javier