vCard and CardDAV (vcarddav)

In addition to this official charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at:
Additional VCARDDAV Web Page

Last Modified: 2011-08-18

Additional information is available at tools.ietf.org/wg/vcarddav

Chair(s):

Applications Area Director(s):

Applications Area Advisor:

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:

vCard Format Specification (164602 bytes)
vCard KIND:application (10306 bytes)
vCard Format Extensions : place of birth, place and date of death (9168 bytes)

Request For Comments:

Extended MKCOL for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) (RFC 5689) (19838 bytes) updates RFC 4791,RFC 4918
CardDAV: vCard Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) (RFC 6352) (98548 bytes)
xCard: vCard XML Representation (RFC 6351) (34086 bytes)