vCard Format Specification
RFC 6350
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(August 2011; Errata)
Updated by RFC 6868
Updates RFC 2739
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Author | Simon Perreault | ||
Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
Replaces | draft-resnick-vcarddav-vcardrev | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | WG Document | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6350 (Proposed Standard) | |
Action Holders |
(None)
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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. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Perreault Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6350 vCard August 2011 This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Show full document text