rfc-6350

<entry-title>vCard 4</entry-title>

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vCard 4 is currently under development.

current draft

The current draft of vCard 4 can be found here:

• http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev-10.txt

new properties

The following is an (incomplete) list of the new properties introduced in vCard 4:

• anniversary
• dday
• birth
• death
• sex
• related
• member
• calscale
• ...

email list

The email list where vCard 4 is discussed is here:

• subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vcarddav
• archives: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/vcarddav/current/maillist.html

To post a message to all the list members, send email to mailto:vcarddav@ietf.org.

feedback

Please feel free to record feedback here inline as well as send it to the vcarddav mailing list. If this section grows too big, we can move it to vcard4-feedback.

• open issue! some new properties seem outside the bounds of "common address book support". some new properties have little or no current usage/implementation in address books, and thus probably shouldn't be in vCard 4, e.g.:
  • dday
  • birth
  • death
  • ...

• open issue! 'birth' is too generically named compared to its meaning (place of birth)
  • suggested alternatives:
    • birthplace (actual English word)
    • birthlocation (re-using "location" from iCalendar).

• open issue! similarly 'death" is too generically named compared to its meaning (place of death)
  • suggested alternatives:
    • deathplace
    • deathlocation (re-using "location" from iCalendar).

• open issue! 'sex' is very poorly constructed given modern knowledge and understanding of gender/sex issues. See gender for more info and suggestions.

• ...

see also

• vCard
• vcard-errata
• vcard-suggestions
• hCard