Re: [VCARDDAV] Miscellaneous comments

[Markus Lorenz <[e-mail]>]

Am 20.07.2010 00:05, schrieb Daisuke Miyakawa:
> Hi,
> 
> 2010/7/19 Javier Godoy <[e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>>
> 
>             2. NAME. "The NAME property is used to convey the display
>             name of the
>             entity to which the directory information pertains"
> 
>             Shouldn't the display name be choosen by the implementation?
>             There is
>             already a mandatory FN property from which the display name
>             could be derived.
> 
>             I remember this issue was discussed before, but I cannot
>             find the rationale
>             for not removing the NAME property.
> 
> 
>         We inherited NAME from vCard 3.0
> 
> 
>     NAME is inherited from RFC 2425, thus it should have been intended
>     as a minimal profile-independent representation of the display name
>     (not only for vCard but also for other "directory profiles" that
>     never existed).
> 
> 
>         I, for one, have no clue how it could be useful.
> 
>         Does anyone know how it is being used currently?
> 
> 
>         and I don't think its removal has ever been discussed.
> 
> 
>     I agree it seems we never discussed it, though it was proposed
>     http://www.vcarddav.org/issues.xhtml#176
>     "The NAME (RFC2425) property is redundant with FN (RFC2426)"
>     Closed without action on 2008-06-09
> 
>     And yes, I said "+1" to closing it, but I cannot remember why... now
>     I think we should do something about it.
> 
> 
> +1 to do something. I prefer removing it, but there's no strong preference.
> 
> I think one problem is that the name is too generic. If NAME is "a
> minimal profile-independent representation of the display name", the
> name should not be
> NAME but SHORT-NAME, SN, or something more appropriate. We don't need to
> inherit that name from vCard 3.0, but its intention.

+1 to remove it. If no one knows how to use it, it can't bring any benefit.

What could a SHORT-NAME be used for? I still can't see the intention.
Was the plan to get at least some useful information out of a
mime-directory format even if you don't understand the specific format?
Are there other mime-directory formats than vCard?