Re: [VCARDDAV] Format of PID field

["Darryl Champagne" <dgc at funambol.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vcarddav-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:vcarddav-bounces at ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of Simon Perreault
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:42 PM
> To: vcarddav at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] Format of PID field

> Meanwhile, here's a counter-example. Take your vCard and stick it into a
> distributed source code versioning system (e.g. git is all the rage
> nowadays). There's your PID-less sync protocol.

Umm, are you really serious?
That's a fine technical solution, and works fine for a university, but are
you expecting some master registry to be accepted by everyone?  Or separate
registries/git systems for each "owner" of contact info?  That I would be
able to point my corporate Blackberry at my home server/system as the
official source of my contact info?  That my corporate network would allow
any sharing at all with outside sources?  Sync my phone with my house to get
my contact info, and also to a corporate VPN to get the global address book?
That I would be able to tell my mother how to update/sync my contact book
entry on her PC?

I know some of the places I have worked at anything like that would have
corporate IT screaming, and cursing the day that I got enough manager's
signatures to even be allowed admin rights on my Laptop.  We need solutions
such that random consumers can install software, hit a sync button, and
actually have it work.

Also, do you have any idea the resource issues of having a system support 6
and 7 figure numbers of users?  Those are the number of users in a typical
carrier or ISP deployment - its one thing to say it is distributed, but
someone still has to install the software, and provide the resources, and
that ain't free.

dgc

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