The IESG has approved the following document: - 'jCard: The JSON format for vCard' (draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcard-07.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the JSON data formats for vCard and iCalendar Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Pete Resnick and Barry Leiba. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcard/ Technical Summary The document defines "jCard", which is a JSON format for vCard [RFC6350] data. The main advantage of using a JSON-based format over the classic vCard format is easier processing for JavaScript based widgets and libraries, especially in the scope of web-based applications. The jCard format is designed to be semantically equivalent to the vCard format, and conversion between the formats can be done without loss. Finally, the jCard format is designed to be easily used by a similar JSON-based format for calendar data: jCal. The latter format is still under development, but is expected to be finalized soon after finalization of jCard. Working Group Summary Since the document's WG adoption on 25 March 2013, it has been widely discussed on the mailing list. In addition, other working groups have been consulted. The IETF working groups are SCIM, WEIRDS and CALSIFY. In addition, we have contacted W3C public-contacts-cord and the portablecontacts Google group. In-dept comments have been received from WEIRDS and CALSIFY. WEIRDS has a jCal example in its draft-ietf-json-response. All technical issues raised on the mailing list have been resolved. The topics have not been controversial, although several topics required some rounds of discussion. Topics included the format for date and time, handling of default values when converting between vCard and jCard, structured values and grouping. Document Quality Section 6 of the draft mentions three implementations. These are ICAL.js, Py Calendar and ez-vcard. The implementations have led to some discussions on the list, resulting in clarifications in the text. Personnel Shepherd: Bert Greevenbosch AD: Pete Resnick
