[VCARDDAV] KIND in draft 15

Kevin Marks <kevinmarks@gmail.com> Thu, 16 December 2010 22:07 UTC

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Subject: [VCARDDAV] KIND in draft 15
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I welcome dropping 'thing', but still have reservations about the way
'group' is defined, as others have said previously.

As mentioned before, there are two very widespread kinds of entries in
address books that would benefit from having different treatment by
user agents - mailing lists, and automated responders.

I'd suggest we add KIND's for these

Add 'list' for mailing lists and similar addresses that need different
treatment by user-agents (eg gmail's category error of insistently
trying to invite mailing lists to gtalk).

Add 'automated' for the kinds of auto responder email addresses that
updates from social networks, banks and the like.

Also, we shoudl have examples of these types - we need one for location

Giving text:

The value may be one of: "person" for a single person, "list" for an
address corresponding to a list of people (eg a mailing list), "org"
for an organization, "location" for a named geographical place,
"automated" for an automated system (eg a social network notifier,
bank address), an x-name or an iana-token.  If this property is
absent, "person" MUST be assumed as default

examples:

Special notes:

The value may be one of: "individual" for a single person, "group" for
a group, "org" for an organization, "location"for a named geographical
place, "list" for an address corresponding to a list of people (eg a
mailing list),  "automated" for an automated system (eg a social
network notifier, bank address), an x-name or an iana-token.  If this
property is absent, "individual" MUST be assumed as default.

   ABNF:

     KIND-param = "VALUE=text" / any-param
     KIND-value = "individual" / "group" / "org" / "location" / "list"
/ "automated"
                / iana-token / x-name

   Example:

      This represents the VCARD Mailing list:

         BEGIN:VCARD
         VERSION:4.0
         KIND:list
         FN:VCARD Mailing List
         EMAIL:vcarddav@ietf.org
         ORG:Internet Engineering Task Force.;Network Working Group;
         END:VCARD

      This represents the VCARD Mailing list autoresponder:


         BEGIN:VCARD
         VERSION:4.0
         KIND:automated
         FN:VCARD List bot
         EMAIL:vcarddav-request@ietf.org
         ORG:Internet Engineering Task Force.;Network Working Group;
         END:VCARD