Network Working Group Frank Dawson, Lotus Internet Draft Paul Hoffman, IMC <draft-dawson-vcard-fpi-00.txt> Expires six months after: July 1, 1998 vCard v3.0 Formal Public Identifier Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months. Internet-Drafts may be updated, replaced, or made obsolete by other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as a "working draft" or "work in progress". To view the entire list of current Internet-Drafts, please check the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net (Northern Europe), ftp.nis.garr.it (Southern Europe), munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast), or ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast). Distribution of this document is unlimited. Copyright (C) The Internet Society 1998. All Rights Reserved. Abstract The IETF has defined a standard format for electronic business card data, called vCard. This format is useful for exchange of personal directory data across the Internet, as well as in non-Internet environments. In a number of environments where the vCard will be used, the format type and version needs to be identified. For example, when registering the vCard as a format for memory-based "clipboard" or "drag/drop" user interface interactions. For these cases, a definitive formal public identifier (FPI) for the vCard will be required. This memo defined the FPI to be used when referring to the version 3.0 of the vCard format. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY" and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC 2119]. 1. Introduction This memo defines a FPI for the version 3.0 vCard. An FPI is a identifier that is used to uniquely identify an entity. The syntax for a FPI is defined in [ISO 9070]. Dawson/Hoffman 1 Expires January 1999 Internet Draft vCard v3.0 Formal Public Identifier July 1, 1998 The FPI defined by this memo can be used to register the version 3.0 of the vCard format in an operating system object registry so that the format can be uniquely referenced within that environment. In addition, this FPI can be used to refer to the vCard notation in representation grammars, such as that defined by [XML]. 2. vCard v3.0 FPI The public identified defined by this memo is a non-registered FPI, as defined by [ISO 9070]. The FPI is defined by the following text string. "-//IETF//NONSGML vCard version 3.0//EN" This FPI SHOULD be used whereever a reference is needed to the version 3.0 vCard format. 3. Security Considerations Security issues are not discussed in this memo. 4. References [ISO9070] "Information Technology_SGML Support Facilities_ Registration Procedures for Public Text Owner Identifiers", ISO/IEC 9070, Second Edition, International Organization for Standardization, April, 1991. [RFC 2119] "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997. [VCARD] F. Dawson and T. Howes, "vCard MIME Directory Profile", <To be published as RFC>, http://www.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft- ietf-asid-mime-vcard-06.txt, April 1998. [XML] "Extensible Markup Language (XML)", Worldwide Web Consortium, http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208, December 1997. 5. Author's Address The following address information is provided in a vCard v3.0, Electronic Business Card, format. BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 FN:Frank Dawson N:Dawson;Frank ORG:Lotus Development Corporation ADR;WORK;POSTAL;PARCEL:;;6544 Battleford Drive;Raleigh;NC;27613- 3502;USA TEL;PREF;WORK;MSG:+1-617-693-8728 TEL;WORK;MSG:+1-919-676-9515 EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:Frank_Dawson@Lotus.com Dawson/Hoffman 2 Expires January 1999 Internet Draft vCard v3.0 Formal Public Identifier July 1, 1998 EMAIL;INTERNET:fdawson@earthlink.net END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 FN:Paul Hoffman N:Hoffman;Paul ORG:Internet Mail Consortium ADR;WORK;POSTAL;PARCEL:;;127 Segre Place;Santa Cruz;CA;95060;USA TEL;PREF;WORK;MSG:+1-408-426-9827 TEL;WORK;MSG:+1-408-426-7301 EMAIL;INTERNET:phoffman@imc.org END:VCARD 6. Full Copyright Statement "Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). 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