IANA Registration for vCard Enumservice
RFC 4969
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(August 2007; No errata)
Updated by RFC 6118
Was draft-ietf-enum-vcard (enum WG)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Replaces | draft-mayrhofer-enum-vcard | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 4969 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| Responsible AD | Jon Peterson | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
Network Working Group A. Mayrhofer
Request for Comments: 4969 enum.at
Category: Standards Track August 2007
IANA Registration for vCard Enumservice
Status of This Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007).
Abstract
This memo registers the Enumservice "vCard" using the URI schemes
"http" and "https". This Enumservice is to be used to refer from an
ENUM domain name to a vCard instance describing the user of the
respective E.164 number.
Information gathered from those vCards could be used before, during,
or after inbound or outbound communication takes place. For example,
a callee might be presented with the name and association of the
caller before picking up the call.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Enumservice Registration - vCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5. Security and Privacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5.1. The ENUM Record Itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5.2. The Resource Identified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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1. Introduction
E.164 Number Mapping (ENUM) [1] uses the Domain Name System (DNS) [2]
to refer from E.164 numbers [3] to Uniform Resource Identifiers
(URIs) [6]. The registration process for Enumservices is described
in Section 3 of RFC 3761.
"vCard" [4] is a transport-independent data format for the exchange
of information about an individual. For the purpose of this
document, the term "vCard" refers to a specific instance of this data
format -- an "electronic business card". vCards are exchanged via
several protocols; most commonly, they are distributed as electronic
mail attachments or published on web servers. Most popular personal
information manager applications are capable of reading and writing
vCards.
The Enumservice specified in this document deals with the relation
between an E.164 number and vCards. An ENUM record using this
Enumservice identifies a resource from where a vCard corresponding to
the respective E.164 number could be fetched.
Clients could use those resources to, e.g., automatically update
local address books (a Voice over IP phone could try to fetch vCards
for all outbound and inbound calls taking place on that phone and
display them together with the call journal). In a more integrated
scenario, information gathered from those vCards could even be
automatically incorporated into the personal information manager
application of the respective user.
2. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [5].
3. Enumservice Registration - vCard
Enumservice Name: "vCard"
Enumservice Type: "vcard"
Enumservice Subtype: n/a
URI Schemes: "http", "https"
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RFC 4969 vCard Enumservice August 2007
Functional Specification:
This Enumservice indicates that the resource identified is a plain
vCard, according to RFC 2426, which may be accessed using HTTP/
HTTPS [7].
Clients fetching the vCard from the resource indicated should
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