Re: [VCARDDAV] how to represent distribution lists

Hi Helge,

--On May 16, 2008 5:31:58 PM +0200 Helge Hess 
<helge.hess@opengroupware.org> wrote:

>>> Reference by UID, URL and/or EMAIL would be preferably (I think by-
>>> EMAIL would be quite helpful for many clients). Consider a GROUP
>>> like the ATTENDEE set in a VEVENT.
>> Well, that won't happen because EMAIL is not restricted to be unique
>> across vCards.
>
>
> Ups, sorry, I wrote GROUP. Of course I meant distribution list. Its no
> problem in that case (in fact its usually exactly that, a simple list
> of emails :-). Same thing like VEVENT ATTENDEEs.

OK, so thinking about this I think what we need is a just a KIND:group, but 
allow the MEMBER property value to be an embedded vCard in addition to a 
uuid. So a "pure" distribution list would just be a group where all the 
MEMBER's are embedded vCards, and a "pure" group would have all MEMBER's as 
urn:uuid's, but you could also have a mixture of both.

BEGIN:VCARD
KIND:group
FN:Daboo Family
MEMBER;TYPE=VCARD:BEGIN:VCARD\nFN:Cyrus Daboo\nEMAIL:cyrus@daboo.name\n
 IM:jabber:cyrus@daboo.name\nEND:VCARD
MEMBER;TYPE=VCARD:BEGIN:VCARD\nFN:Kim Daboo\nEMAIL:kim@daboo.name\n
 IM:jabber:kim@daboo.name\nEND:VCARD
...
END:VCARD

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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