Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Cauchie
Request for Comments: 6715 France Telecom - Orange
Category: Standards Track B. Leiba
ISSN: 2070-1721 K. Li
Huawei Technologies
August 2012
vCard Format Extensions: Representing vCard Extensions Defined by the
Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Converged Address Book (CAB) Group
Abstract
This document defines extensions to the vCard data format for
representing and exchanging certain contact information. The
properties covered here have been defined by the Open Mobile Alliance
(OMA) Converged Address Book group, in order to synchronize, using
OMA Data Synchronization, contact fields that were not already
defined in the base vCard 4.0 specification.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6715.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of
publication of this document. Please review these documents
carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect
to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must
include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of
the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as
described in the Simplified BSD License.
Cauchie, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]RFC 6715 vCard-OMA-CAB August 2012Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
1.1. A Brief Introduction to the Converged Address Book .........2
1.2. Terminology Used in This Document ..........................3
2. vCard Extensions: Properties ....................................3
2.1. Property: EXPERTISE ........................................3
2.2. Property: HOBBY ............................................4
2.3. Property: INTEREST .........................................5
2.4. Property: ORG-DIRECTORY ....................................6
3. vCard Extensions: Parameters ....................................7
3.1. Parameter: INDEX ...........................................7
3.2. Parameter: LEVEL ...........................................8
4. Security Considerations .........................................8
5. IANA Considerations .............................................9
6. Acknowledgments .................................................9
7. References .....................................................10
7.1. Normative References ......................................10
7.2. Informative References ....................................10
1. Introduction
Synchronization of an Open Mobile Alliance Converged Address Book
[OMA-CAB], using Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization [OMA-DS],
commonly uses vCard as an exchange format between the DS Server and
the DS Client. In order to properly perform synchronization of an
OMA-CAB, the CAB specification defines some CAB contact fields not
already defined in the vCard base specification. This document
reuses the definitions found in the OMA-CAB specification and
describes them as vCard extensions. The following sections define
the necessary Properties and Parameters.
1.1. A Brief Introduction to the Converged Address Book
The Converged Address Book (CAB) Enabler provides consistent
mechanisms to manage contact information both in user-facing
applications and in support of network-facing activities. At the
core of this enabler is a network-based contact repository in which a
user can store contact information. That information can be
retrieved by any CAB-enabled device. The network-based repository is
also able to provide specific contact information to other users and
datatracker.ietf.org