Re: [VCARDDAV] draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav: should support for vCard 4.0 be recommended?

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Tue, 01 September 2009 20:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav: should support for vCard 4.0 be recommended?
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On Tuesday 01 September 2009 16:31:12 Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> I would really like to hear clear consensus from the WG that either this
> should stay as is, or that [I-D.ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev] should be a SHOULD.

As an implementer of CardDAV and author of vCard 4, I can say that adding 
support for vCard 4 to an implementation of CardDAV supporting vCard 3 is 
easy. The syntax is near enough that changes are minimal.

+1 for SHOULD

Simon
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