vCard Format Extensions: Place of Birth, Place and Date of Death
RFC 6474
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) K. Li
Request for Comments: 6474 B. Leiba
Category: Standards Track Huawei Technologies
ISSN: 2070-1721 December 2011
vCard Format Extensions: Place of Birth, Place and Date of Death
Abstract
The base vCard 4.0 specification defines a large number of
properties, including date of birth. This specification adds three
new properties to vCard 4.0: place of birth, place of death, and date
of death.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
1.1. Terminology Used in This Document ..........................2
2. Identification Property Extensions ..............................2
2.1. Property: BIRTHPLACE .......................................2
2.2. Property: DEATHPLACE .......................................3
2.3. Property: DEATHDATE ........................................4
3. Security Considerations .........................................5
4. IANA Considerations .............................................5
5. Acknowledgements ................................................5
6. Normative References ............................................5
1. Introduction
The base vCard 4.0 specification [RFC6350] defines a large number of
properties, including date of birth. This specification adds three
new properties to vCard 4.0: place of birth, place of death, and date
of death.
1.1. Terminology Used in This Document
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 [RFC2119].
Syntax specifications shown here use the augmented Backus-Naur Form
(ABNF) as described in [RFC5234], and are specified as in the base
vCard specification [RFC6350].
2. Identification Property Extensions
2.1. Property: BIRTHPLACE
Namespace:
Property name: BIRTHPLACE
Purpose: To specify the place of birth of the object the vCard
represents.
Value type: A single text value (default) or a single URI value.
Cardinality: *1
Property parameters: VALUE, LANGUAGE
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Description:
Format definition:
BIRTHPLACE-param = "VALUE=" ("text" / "uri")
BIRTHPLACE-value = text / uri
; Value type and VALUE parameter MUST match.
BIRTHPLACE-param =/ altid-param / language-param / any-param
Examples:
BIRTHPLACE:Babies'R'Us Hospital
BIRTHPLACE;VALUE=uri:http://example.com/hospitals/babiesrus.vcf
BIRTHPLACE;VALUE=uri:geo:46.769307,-71.283079
2.2. Property: DEATHPLACE
Namespace:
Property name: DEATHPLACE
Purpose: To specify the place of death of the object the vCard
represents.
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