vCard KIND:application
RFC 6473
Document | Type | RFC - Proposed Standard (December 2011; No errata) | |
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Author | Peter Saint-Andre | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Replaces | draft-saintandre-vcarddav-thing | ||
Stream | Internent Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Simon Perreault | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6473 (Proposed Standard) | |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Pete Resnick | ||
IESG note | Simon Perreault (simon.perreault@viagenie.ca) is the document shepherd. | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Saint-Andre Request for Comments: 6473 Cisco Category: Standards Track December 2011 ISSN: 2070-1721 vCard KIND:application Abstract This document defines a value of "application" for the vCard KIND property so that vCards can be used to represent software applications. 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/rfc6473. 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. Saint-Andre Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6473 vCard KIND:application December 2011 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. Meaning .........................................................2 3. Example .........................................................4 4. IANA Considerations .............................................4 5. Security Considerations .........................................4 6. Acknowledgements ................................................5 7. References ......................................................5 7.1. Normative References .......................................5 7.2. Informative References .....................................5 1. Introduction Version 4 of the vCard specification [RFC6350] defines a new KIND property to specify the type of entity that a vCard represents. During its work on the base vCard4 specification, the VCARDDAV Working Group defined values of "individual", "organization", "group", and "location" for the KIND property. The working group considered but then removed a value of "thing" to represent any type of physical entity, machine, software application, etc., with the expectation that such a value might be defined in a vCard extension. This document does not define a generic "thing" value but instead defines a more narrow "application" value so that vCards can be used to represent software applications. 2. Meaning When the KIND property has a value of "application", the vCard represents a software application such as a server, an online service (e.g., a chat room), or an automated software bot. More formally, an "application" is functionally equivalent to the 'applicationProcess' object class used in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [RFC4519] as derived from the Open Systems Interconnection model [X.521] [X.200]. As one example of the "application" KIND, vCards are currently used in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol [RFC6120] to represent instant messaging servers that are deployed on the network. The properties included in an application's vCard apply to one of the following: o The application itself (e.g., the FN property might represent the friendly name of an application service, the URL property might represent a website that contains further information about the service, and the ADR, GEO, and TZ properties might represent the physical address, geographical location, and time zone of the machine where the service is hosted). Saint-Andre Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 6473 vCard KIND:application December 2011 o An organization or person that makes the application available on the network (e.g., the LOGO property might represent the corporate logo of a service provider). o A person or role that maintains the application (e.g., the TEL, EMAIL, and IMPP properties might represent ways to contact a server administrator). When a property represents some aspect of the application itself, itShow full document text