vCard and CardDAV (vcarddav)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2011-12-09

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Simon Perreault  <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>

 Applications Area Director(s):
     Pete Resnick  <presnick@qualcomm.com>
     Barry Leiba  <barryleiba@computer.org>
     Peter Saint-Andre  <stpeter@stpeter.im>

 Applications Area Advisor:
     Peter Saint-Andre  <stpeter@stpeter.im>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:vcarddav@ietf.org
     To Subscribe:      https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vcarddav
     Archive:           http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/vcarddav

Description of Working Group:

A personal address book (PAB) contains a read/write copy of attributes
describing a user's interpersonal contacts. This is distinct from a
directory which contains a primarily read-only copy of users within an
organization. While these two data objects share a large number of
common attributes, their use and access patterns are fundamentally
different. The IETF has a standards-track data format (vCard 4.0) and an
access protocol (CardDAV) for the interchange of both PABs and user
directory entry data objects.

Having completed its work on the base vCard and CardDAV specifications,
the VCARDDAV working group currently focuses on extensions to those two
technologies. In particular, the WG will complete the following work:

(1) A limited set of extensions to vCard (and its XML representation) as
well as to CardDAV. Extensions are accepted for group consideration
based on normal IETF consensus rules and in consultation with the
responsible Area Director.

(2) A lossless mapping between LDAP and vCard 4.0.

 Goals and Milestones:

   Done         Address book access protocol draft 

   Done         vCard new revision draft 

   Done         submit to IESG both drafts 

   Done         XML schema 

   Sep 2011       Submit simple extensions to IESG as Proposed Standard 
                (draft-ietf-vcarddav-kind-app; 
                draft-ietf-vcarddav-birth-death-extensions) 

   Nov 2011       Adopt draft for LDAP mapping as working group item 
                (draft-cal-resource-schema or its equivalent will be taken as 
                the starting point) 

   Dec 2011       Submit social networking extensions to IESG as Proposed 
                Standard (draft-george-vcarddav-vcard-extension will be taken) 
                as the starting point 

   Dec 2011       Submit OMA extensions to IESG as Proposed Standard 
                (draft-cauchie-vcarddav-oma-cab-extensions will be taken as the 
                starting point) 

   Dec 2011       Submit CardDAV extensions to IESG as Proposed Standard 
                (draft-daboo-carddav-directory-gateway will be taken as the 
                starting point) 

   Apr 2012       Submit LDAP mapping to IESG as Proposed Standard 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Oct 2011 Oct 2011   <draft-ietf-vcarddav-oma-cab-extensions-00.txt>
                vCard Format extension : represent vCard extensions defined by 
                the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Converged Address Book (CAB) 
                group 

Oct 2011 Oct 2011   <draft-ietf-vcarddav-social-networks-00.txt>
                vCard Format Extension : To Represent the Social Network 
                Information of an Individual 

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC5689 PS   Sep 2009    Extended MKCOL for Web Distributed Authoring and 
                       Versioning (WebDAV) 

RFC6352 PS   Aug 2011    CardDAV: vCard Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring 
                       and Versioning (WebDAV) 

RFC6351 PS   Aug 2011    xCard: vCard XML Representation 

RFC6350 PS   Aug 2011    vCard Format Specification 

RFC6473 PS   Dec 2011    vCard KIND:application 

RFC6474 PS   Dec 2011    vCard Format Extensions: Place of Birth, Place and Date 
                       of Death