Re: [VCARDDAV] Signed vCards

[Cyrus Daboo <[e-mail]>]

The most common case of identity change is a name change by e.g., marriage. Please use that - you can illustrate a name change and email address change and even a mailing address change all with that one use case. You can stick an anniversary property in there too to illustrate the point. 

-- 
Cyrus Daboo
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> On Sep 1, 2013, at 4:03 PM, DataPacRat <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Michael Angstadt
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:18 AM, DataPacRat <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>>> Would a more historical example be within bounds? Eg:
>>> 
>>> N:Chevalier d'Eon
>>> BDAY:1728-10-5
>>> GENDER;DATE=1728-10-5/1774:M
>>> GENDER;DATE=1774/1810:F
>>> DEATHDATE:1810-05-21
>> 
>> No. -_-
> 
> I'm afraid that I don't understand the reasoning behind your rejection
> here, and so I know neither what you would find acceptable, nor
> whether your criteria are valid ones to use in this context. (Put
> another way, I don't know whether you're objecting to the two
> gender/date examples I've proposed so far because it's insulting to
> those particular individuals, or because they're offensive to to some
> group, or because the very idea of using vCards to describe the
> transitions of transgendered people is something you wish to avoid.
> Since the latter is part of the core of the premise that "identity is
> complicated", which is what this I-D is supposed to cover, if that's
> the reasoning in play, it seems counter-productive to avoid such an
> example; but at this point, I can't tell whether or not that's the
> basis behind your objection.)
> 
> So I'll try again: instead of a present-day or historical figure, what
> about a fictional one? Eg:
> 
> N:Dax
> GENDER;DATE=2285/2367:M
> GENDER;DATE=2367/2374:F
> 
> (Reference: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dax_%28symbiont%29 )
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> --
> DataPacRat
> "Then again, I could be wrong."