Re: [VCARDDAV] Rename SEX to GENDER

Kevin Marks <kevinmarks@gmail.com> Wed, 03 November 2010 05:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] Rename SEX to GENDER
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Portable Contacts has:

gender:The gender of this contact. Service Providers SHOULD return one of
the following Canonical Values, if appropriate: male, female, orundisclosed,
and MAY return a different value if it is not covered by one of these
Canonical Values.
http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html#anchor16

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Renato Iannella <renato@iannella.it> wrote:

> FYI:
>
> OASIS CIQ [1] uses "gender" but only recommends "Example: Male, female,
> etc" (the xml element is just a text field)
>
> FOAF uses "gender" [2]
>
> OMA Converged Address Book (CAB) uses "gender":
>   1)       “0” indicates “not known”.
>  2)       “1” indicates “male”
>  3)       “2” indicates “female”.
>  4)       “3” indicates “other”.
>  5)       “9” indicates “not applicable”
>
> Cheers
>
> Renato Iannella
> http://renato.iannella.it
>
> [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/download.html
> [2] http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_gender
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