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Re: [VCARDDAV] Question about SOURCE property in RFC 6350

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Wed, 08 January 2014 15:48 UTC

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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 10:48:02 -0500
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Erwin Rehme <erwin.rehme@oracle.com>, Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] Question about SOURCE property in RFC 6350
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Hi Erwin,

--On January 8, 2014 at 8:10:59 AM -0700 Erwin Rehme 
<erwin.rehme@oracle.com> wrote:

>> Does anyone know of non-URI SOURCEs in the wild?
> An export of a Yahoo contact contains "SOURCE:Yahoo! AddressBook
> (http://address.yahoo.com)".

I would claim that is a bug - at the very least a "VALUE=TEXT" parameter 
should have been included because the default value type is definitely 
supposed to be URI. Though I do think it should always be a URI and we 
should clean up the definition in the current spec to clarify that.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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