Re: [VCARDDAV] Questions about vCard 4.0 (draft rev-11)

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 23 June 2010 16:43 UTC

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On 23.06.2010 18:37, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> --On June 23, 2010 6:04:10 PM +0200 Julian Reschke
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>> 1. Leave the ABNF as is but state that the value is case insensitive.
>>> 2. Change the ABNF and state that the value is case sensitive.
>>>
>>> I think I would prefer 1.
>>> ...
>>
>> You can also say:
>>
>> BEGIN-value = %d86.67.65.82.68; uppercase "VCARD"
>>
>> if you are concerned about verbosity...
>
> I think we should just allow any case for "VCARD". Otherwise, if we are
> concerned with case-sensitivity of this "property", then we would need
> to look at all the other similar ones - ones with an "enumerated" value
> like KIND. Would we have to define those case-sensitively in the ABNF too?

I have no opinion whether they should allow case-insensitive matching; 
that's something for you, the subject matter experts...

Best regards, Julian