> Ok, that all said and acknowledged... is there any reason at all the
> IETF suggestion wouldn't work?
> - James
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Joseph Smarr <jsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We spent a lot of time talking with the VCARDDAV working group while they
> > were working on vCard 4, and while several useful improvements to vCard 4
> > were made that brought it in closer alignment with PoCo, they ultimately
> > decided not to take a JSON version of vCard on as part of their charter.
> > Nevertheless, the specs are very similar, and there's good/easy 1:1
> > conversion code in both directions (see
> > e.g. http://www.plaxo.com/pdata/vcardTest), so there's not much
> difficulty
> > in currently using PoCo like "the un-official JSON format for vCard".
> Note
> > BTW that PoCo's JSON is intentionally much simpler and cleaner than the
> > direct JSON translation of vCard's XML format would be, since they opted
> for
> > more expressivity more mechanical 1:1 translation to their legacy
> > serialization format, whereas PoCo was more concerned with "looking
> > good/simple on the wire". Again, this is more a difference of style,
> since
> > translating between the two formats is easy in practice.
> > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Matt F. <mfrank...@mitre.org> wrote:
> >> +1
> >> On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 2:03:19 AM UTC-5, thkoch wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> since you're discussing PoCo and somebody suggested to submit it to
> IETF:
> >>> How about separating the data model from the protocol and making the
> data
> >>> model vcard compatible as is xcard to vcard?
> >>> That way, traditional Groupware systems, who work on a data model
> aligned
> >>> with
> >>> vcard could easily serve a JSON representation to be used in widgets.
> >>> As I see it, poco would need to be extended in a backwards compatible
> way
> >>> to
> >>> accept more "property parameters" and some additional parameters. There
> >>> also
> >>> seems to be interest on the vcard site to add social data to vcard:
> >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-social-networks-00
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
> >> On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 2:03:19 AM UTC-5, thkoch wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> since you're discussing PoCo and somebody suggested to submit it to
> IETF:
> >>> How about separating the data model from the protocol and making the
> data
> >>> model vcard compatible as is xcard to vcard?
> >>> That way, traditional Groupware systems, who work on a data model
> aligned
> >>> with
> >>> vcard could easily serve a JSON representation to be used in widgets.
> >>> As I see it, poco would need to be extended in a backwards compatible
> way
> >>> to
> >>> accept more "property parameters" and some additional parameters. There
> >>> also
> >>> seems to be interest on the vcard site to add social data to vcard:
> >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-social-networks-00
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
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