jCard: The JSON Format for vCard
RFC 7095
Document | Type | RFC - Proposed Standard (January 2014; No errata) | |
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Author | Philipp Kewisch | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Replaces | draft-bhat-vcarddav-json, draft-kewisch-vcard-in-json | ||
Stream | Internent Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Bert Greevenbosch | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2013-06-08) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7095 (Proposed Standard) | |
Action Holders |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Pete Resnick | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Kewisch Request for Comments: 7095 Mozilla Category: Standards Track January 2014 ISSN: 2070-1721 jCard: The JSON Format for vCard Abstract This specification defines "jCard", a JSON format for vCard data. The vCard data format is a text format for representing and exchanging information about individuals and other entities, for example, telephone numbers, email addresses, structured names, and delivery addresses. JSON is a lightweight, text-based, language- independent data interchange format commonly used in Internet applications. 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/rfc7095. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2014 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. Kewisch Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 7095 jCard January 2014 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Converting from vCard to jCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1. Pre-processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2. jCard Object and Syntactic Entities (RFC 6350, Sections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3. Properties (RFC 6350, Section 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3.1. Special Cases for Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3.1.1. The VERSION Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3.1.2. Grouping of Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3.1.3. Structured Property Values . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.4. Parameters (RFC 6350, Section 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4.1. VALUE Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4.2. Multi-Valued Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5. Values (RFC 6350, Section 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5.1. Text (RFC 6350, Section 4.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.2. URI (RFC 6350, Section 4.2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.3. Date (RFC 6350, Section 4.3.1) . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.4. Time (RFC 6350, Section 4.3.2) . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.5.5. Date-Time (RFC 6350, Section 4.3.3) . . . . . . . . . 14 3.5.6. Date and/or Time (RFC 6350, Section 4.3.4) . . . . . 16 3.5.7. Timestamp (RFC 6350, Section 4.3.5) . . . . . . . . . 16 3.5.8. Boolean (RFC 6350, Section 4.4) . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.5.9. Integer (RFC 6350, Section 4.5) . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.5.10. Float (RFC 6350, Section 4.6) . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.5.11. UTC Offset (RFC 6350, Section 4.7) . . . . . . . . . 18 3.5.12. Language Tag (RFC 6350, Section 4.8) . . . . . . . . 18 3.6. Extensions (RFC 6350, Section 6.10) . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4. Converting from jCard into vCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5. Handling Unrecognized Properties or Parameters . . . . . . . 19 5.1. Converting vCard into jCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.2. Converting jCard into vCard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.3. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 7.1. GROUP vCard Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 7.2. UNKNOWN vCard Value Data Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Show full document text