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Vcarddav

Vcarddav is an effort to update the vcard specification and to define a protocol to exchange vcards over IP networks. Vcarddav is a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This site describes the work of the working group as well as related work.

IETF Vcarddav Working Group

• Charter and milestones, mailing list.

• Work in progress documents

  • Revision of the vcard format

    • Collected list of issues of the vcard spec

  • vCard Extensions to WebDAV (CardDAV)

  • Collection Synchronization for WebDAV

  • Extended MKCOL for WebDAV

• IETF 71 Philadelphia, March 2008

  • Agenda

  • Jabber log

  • Chair Intro Slides

  • OMA input to vcard-rev

  • vcard revision

  • carddav

  • carddav implementation report

• BOF at IETF 69, Chicago, July 2007

  • Agenda

  • vCard Issues

  • CardDAV

  • LDAP and vCard

• Original vCard Format Specifications:

  • A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information, RFC 2425, September 1998.

  • vCard MIME Directory Profile, RFC 2426, September 1998.

  • vCard Extensions for Instant Messaging (IM), RFC 4770, January 2007.

Related Work (non IETF)

• Internet Mail Consortium, "vCard - The Electronic Business Card Version 2.1, September 1996

• Calconnect vCard Workshop, 2007-09-18, MIT

• Microformats suggestions for vcard revision

Send comments on this site to: Marc Blanchet