[uf-new] Re: Namespace anti-pattern and hAudio TITLE (was: hAudio FN or Title)

Martin McEvoy info at weborganics.co.uk
Mon Feb 4 02:30:49 PST 2008


On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 22:34 -0800, Tantek =?ISO-8859-1?B?xw==?=elik
wrote:
> 1) it's already used to mean "job title" in the context of
> microformats.
> 2) the concept that it is being proposed to represent is the *name* of
> an
> audio item.  "fn" already means the name of an item.  we should not
> introduce a new term to mean the same thing as an existing term. 

"fn" in vcard rfc 2426[1]

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt

inherits its semantics from X.520[2] (2001) “commonName.” attribute

[2]
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/database/itu-t/x/x520/2001/SelectedAttributeTypes.html


[3] "[...The Common Name attribute type specifies an identifier of an
object. A Common Name is not a directory name; it is a (possibly
ambiguous)...]"
http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk/x500book/Chapter.3/Chapter3b.htm

It may be more desirable to use "cn" meaning "common-name" instead of
"fn" the semantics are more precise and we are not confusing anyone with
using "fn"

Thanks 

Martin McEvoy





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