The IESG has approved the following document: - 'xCard: vCard XML Representation' (draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardxml-11.txt) as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the vCard and CardDAV Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Peter Saint-Andre and Pete Resnick. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardxml/ Technical Summary This document defines the XML representation of the vCard data format for representing and exchanging a variety of information about individuals and other entities (e.g., formatted and structured name and delivery addresses, email address, multiple telephone numbers, photograph, logo, audio clips, etc.). Working Group Summary This document is a product of VCARDDAV WG. The document was nearly done around August 2010. Some late comments were received after that, asking for better alignment of the vCard 4.0 format with "hCard" and "PoCo" (Portable Contacts) formats. Most of the suggestions were applied, modulo removal of some properties for which there was no WG consensus to remove them. Document Quality The document was reviewed by multiple VCARDDAV WG participants. Other groups like the XSF depend on this format and are willing to to implement/deploy the XML mapping of vCard 4.0. The two-week media type review was completed on ietf-types@iana.org mailing list. It was requested on April 7th 2011: <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-types/current/msg01183.html> Several implementers expressed desire to implement the spec. Some communities like XSF (see <http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0292.html>) are also referencing this spec. Personnel The Document Shepherd is Alexey Melnikov. The Responsible Area Director is Peter Saint-Andre. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
