vCard Format Specification
RFC 6350
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(August 2011; Errata)
Updated by RFC 6868
Updates RFC 2739
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|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Replaces | draft-resnick-vcarddav-vcardrev | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | WG Document | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 6350 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Peter Saint-Andre | ||
| IESG note | The document shepherd is Alexey Melnikov. | ||
| Send notices to | alexey.melnikov@isode.com | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Perreault
Request for Comments: 6350 Viagenie
Obsoletes: 2425, 2426, 4770 August 2011
Updates: 2739
Category: Standards Track
ISSN: 2070-1721
vCard Format Specification
Abstract
This document defines the vCard data format for representing and
exchanging a variety of information about individuals and other
entities (e.g., formatted and structured name and delivery addresses,
email address, multiple telephone numbers, photograph, logo, audio
clips, etc.). This document obsoletes RFCs 2425, 2426, and 4770, and
updates RFC 2739.
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/rfc6350.
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RFC 6350 vCard August 2011
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. vCard Format Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Line Delimiting and Folding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. ABNF Format Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.4. Property Value Escaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Property Value Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1. TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2. URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3. DATE, TIME, DATE-TIME, DATE-AND-OR-TIME, and TIMESTAMP . . 12
4.3.1. DATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3.2. TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3.3. DATE-TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3.4. DATE-AND-OR-TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3.5. TIMESTAMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4. BOOLEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.5. INTEGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.6. FLOAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.7. UTC-OFFSET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.8. LANGUAGE-TAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. Property Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.1. LANGUAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.2. VALUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3. PREF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.4. ALTID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.5. PID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.6. TYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.7. MEDIATYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.8. CALSCALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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