Internet-Draft | vCard JSContact Extensions | July 2023 |
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This document defines a set of new properties for vCard and extends the use of existing ones. Their primary purpose is to align the same set of features between the JSContact and vCard formats, but the new definitions also aim to be useful within just the vCard format. This document updates RFC 6350 (vCard).¶
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The JSContact [I-D.ietf-calext-jscontact] format aims to be an alternative to the vCard [RFC6350] format for representation of contact and address book data. As such, it introduces new semantics that are not covered in the current definition of vCard and its various extensions. Converting contact data between the two formats is defined in [I-D.ietf-calext-jscontact-vcard] with the goal of not losing any semantics during conversion. To do so, this document defines a new set of properties for vCard and extends existing definitions.¶
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.¶
This specification modifies the definition of the "ADR" property. It extends its structured value with additional address components to better support the variety of international addresses. It separates the address parts that currently typically are combined in street address component values into distinct components.¶
Implementations SHOULD write a combined value of these components in the street address component for backwards compatibility, but SHOULD ignore the street component during read if the ADR property value contains any of the new components.¶
The following change is made to the first paragraph in the "Special Notes" section, originally specified in Section 6.3.1 of [RFC6350]. All remaining paragraphs of that section in the original specification still apply.¶
The following change is made to the definition of "ADR-value" in the "ABNF" section, originally specified in Section 6.3.1 of [RFC6350].¶
ADR-value = ADR-component-pobox ";" ADR-component-ext ";" ADR-component-street ";" ADR-component-locality ";" ADR-component-region ";" ADR-component-code ";" ADR-component-country ";" ; above components are defined in RFC 6350, section 6.3.1 ADR-component-room ";" ADR-component-apartment ";" ADR-component-floor ";" ADR-component-streetnumber ";" ADR-component-streetname ";" ADR-component-building ";" ADR-component-block ";" ADR-component-subdistrict ";" ADR-component-district ";" ADR-component-landmark ";" ADR-component-direction ADR-component-pobox = list-component ADR-component-ext = list-component ADR-component-street = list-component ADR-component-locality = list-component ADR-component-region = list-component ADR-component-code = list-component ADR-component-country = list-component ADR-component-room = list-component ADR-component-apartment = list-component ADR-component-floor = list-component ADR-component-streetname = list-component ADR-component-streetnumber = list-component ADR-component-building = list-component ADR-component-block = list-component ADR-component-subdistrict = list-component ADR-component-district = list-component ADR-component-landmark = list-component¶
The following change is made to the "Example" section, originally specified in Section 6.2.2 of [RFC6350].¶
ADR;GEO="geo:12.3457,78.910";LABEL="Mr. John Q. Public, Esq.\n Mail Drop: TNE QB\n123 Main Street\nAny Town, CA 91921-1234\n U.S.A.": ;;123 Main Street;Any Town;CA;91921-1234;U.S.A.;;123;Main Street;;;;;;;¶
This specification modifies the definition of the "N" property. It extends its structured value with additional name components to better support international names and generation markers. Doing so, this also facilitates formatting N property values using the Unicode CLDR Person Name [CLDRPersonName] formatting standard.¶
One new component is for secondary surnames, as in some cultures, such secondary surname kinds are used to indicate the paternal and maternal family names or generational names indicating father, grandfather. Another new component indicates a generation ("II", "XVI") or parental relation ("Jr.", "Sr.").¶
Currently, implementations typically place secondary surnames in the family name components, and generational markers in the honorific suffixes component. For backwards compatibility, implementations SHOULD add such values to both the newly defined components and their backwards-compatible counterpart. Reading N property values, implementations SHOULD ignore any value in the backward-compatible component if an equal value is set in the according new component. For example, a "Jr." that occurs in both honorific suffixes and generation should only be handled as a generational marker.¶
The following change is made to the first paragraph in the "Special Notes" section, originally specified in Section 6.2.2 of [RFC6350]. All remaining text of this and the following paragraphs of that section in the original specification still apply.¶
The following change is made to the "ABNF" section, originally specified in Section 6.2.2 of [RFC6350].¶
N-param = "VALUE=text" / sort-as-param / language-param / altid-param / any-param N-value = list-component 6(";" list-component)¶
The following change is made to the "Example" section, originally specified in Section 6.2.2 of [RFC6350].¶
N:Public;John;Quinlan;Mr.;Esq. N:Stevenson;John;Philip,Paul;Dr.;Jr.,M.D.,A.C.P.;;Jr.¶
No change is required for the definition of the SORT-AS parameter, but the new components also apply for use with this parameter.¶
This property is defined by the following notation:¶
created = "CREATED" createdparam ":" timestamp createdparam = *( ; ; The following are OPTIONAL, ; but MUST NOT occur more than once. ; (";" "VALUE" "=" "timestamp") / ; ; The following are OPTIONAL, ; and MAY occur more than once. ; (";" any-param) ; )¶
CREATED:20220705T093412Z CREATED;VALUE=TIMESTAMP:20211022T140000-05¶
TEXT
shall be assumed to be written for this vCard.
If a vCard property includes the LANGUAGE
parameter, then the
parameter value has higher precedence than the LANGUAGE
property value.¶
This property is defined by the following notation:¶
language-prop = "LANGUAGE" any-param ":" Language-Tag ; Language-Tag is defined in RFC6350, Section 4.¶
LANGUAGE:de-AT¶
This property defines the grammatical gender that the contact prefers to be addressed by or referred at in written or spoken form. For example, the German language distinguishes by grammatical gender in salutations such as "Sehr geehrte" (feminine) and "Sehr geehrter" (masculine). Multiple occurrences of this property MUST be distinguished by the LANG parameter.¶
This property is defined by the following notation:¶
gramgender = "GRAMGENDER" gramgender-param ":" gramgender-value gramgender-param = *( ; ; The following are OPTIONAL, ; but MUST NOT occur more than once. ; (";" language-param) / ; ; The following are OPTIONAL, ; and MAY occur more than once. ; (";" any-param) ; ) gramgender-value = "animate" / "common" / "feminine" / "inanimate" / "masculine" / "neuter" / iana-token / x-name¶
GRAMGENDER:neuter¶
This property is defined by the following notation:¶
pronouns = "PRONOUNS" pronouns-param ":" text pronouns-param = *( ; ; The following are OPTIONAL, ; but MUST NOT occur more than once. ; (";" language-param) / (";" pref-param) / (";" type-param) / (";" altid-param) / ; ; The following are OPTIONAL, ; and MAY occur more than once. ; (";" any-param) ; )¶
PRONOUNS;LANG=en;PREF=1:xe/xir PRONOUNS;LANG=en;PREF=2:they/them¶
This parameter MAY be set on any property to define the point in time when the property was created. The value MUST be a valid TIMESTAMP value as defined in Section 4.3.5 of [RFC6350]. Generally, updating a property value SHOULD NOT change the creation timestamp.¶
created-param = "CREATED" "=" param-value ; ; a valid TIMESTAMP of Section 4.3.5 of [RFC6350]¶
NOTE;CREATED=20221122T151823Z:This is some note.¶
This property parameter SHOULD be specified on an property if the property value is derived from some other properties in the same vCard. When present with a value of true
, clients MUST NOT update the property.¶
For an example, an implementation may derive the value of the FN property from the name components of the N property. It indicates this fact by setting the DERIVED parameter on the FN property to true
.¶
derived-param = "DERIVED" "=" ("true" / "false") ; Default is false¶
N:;John;Quinlan;Mr.; FN;DERIVED=TRUE:Mr. John Quinlan¶
This property parameter indicates that the value of its property contains the phonetic representation of a same-named other property in the same vCard. Exemplary uses are to define how pronounce a Japanese name, or for romanization of Mandarin or Cantonese name and address components.¶
The parameter value indicates the phonetic system and MUST be one of the values enumerated in the IANA vCard Parameter Values (Section 7.4) registry. This specification defines the following values:¶
ipa
: denotes the International Phonetic Alphabet [IPA].¶
piny
: denotes the Standard Mandarin romanization system "Hanyu Pinyin".¶
jyut
: denotes the Cantonese romanization system "Jyutping".¶
script
: denotes the unknown phonetic system. The SCRIPT (Section 4.7) parameter MUST be set in addition to the PHONETIC parameter.¶
The value type of the property on which the PHONETIC parameter is set MUST be of the same type as its related property. If a component value is set in the property on which the PHONETIC parameter is set, then a component value also MUST be set at that same position in the related property. On the other hand, not every component value in the related property needs to have a phonetic representation.¶
The ALTID parameter (Section 5.4 of [RFC6350]) MUST be set with equal values on both the related property and the property having the PHONETIC parameter set. If more than one same-named property has both the PHONETIC parameter set and an equal ALTID parameter value, then at most one of these properties MAY not have the LANGUAGE parameter set and all others MUST have the LANGUAGE parameter set. The LANGUAGE parameters MUST NOT have equal values. The LANGUAGE parameter value SHOULD NOT contain a script subtag in its Language-Tag value and any such subtag MUST be ignored in favor of the SCRIPT (Section 4.7) parameter value.¶
This specification defines the PHONETIC parameter for use with the ADR and N properties.¶
phonetic-param = "PHONETIC=" phonetic-value phonetic-value = "ipa" / "piny" / "jyut" / "script" / iana-token / x-name¶
N;ALTID=1;LANGUAGE=zho-Hant:孫;中山;文,逸仙;;;; N;ALTID=1;PHONETIC=jyut; SCRIPT=Latn;LANGUAGE=yue:syun1;zung1saan1;man4,jat6sin1;;;;¶
This parameter uniquely identifies a property among all of its siblings with the same name within a vCard. A valid PROP-ID value must be of 1 and a maximum of 255 octets in size, and it MUST only contain the ASCII alphanumeric characters (A-Za-z0-9
), hyphen (-
), and underscore (_
). The identifier only has the purpose to uniquely identify siblings, its value has no other meaning. If an application makes use of PROP-ID it SHOULD assign a unique identifier to each sibling property of the same name within their embedding component. The same identifier MAY be used for properties of a different name, and it MAY also be assigned to a same-named property that is not a sibling.¶
Resolving duplicate identifier conflicts is specific to the application. Similarly, handling properties where some but not all siblings have a PROP-ID is assigned, is application-specific.¶
prop-id-param = "PROP-ID" "=" 1*255(ALPHA / DIGIT / "-"/ "_")¶
PHOTO;PROP-ID=p827:data:image/jpeg;base64,MIICajCCAdOgAwIBAg <...remainder of base64-encoded data...>¶
This parameter allows defining a script for a property value without also defining a language as the LANGUAGE parameter would. The value MUST be a Script Subtag as defined in Section 2.2.3 of [RFC5646]. This specification makes use of the SCRIPT parameter in combination with the PHONETIC (Section 4.5) parameter.¶
script-param = 4ALPHA¶
SCRIPT=Latn¶
This parameter MAY be specified on a IMPP or SOCIALPROFILE property to name the online service associated with that property value. Its value is case-sensitive, its letter cases MUST be preserved.¶
Several vCard address book implementations currently use an experimental X-SERVICE-TYPE parameter. This specification provides an IANA-registered parameter for the same purpose.¶
service-type-param = "SERVICE-TYPE" "=" param-value¶
SOCIALPROFILE;SERVICE-TYPE=Mastodon:https://example.com/@foo¶
This parameter MAY be specified on a IMPP or SOCIALPROFILE property to name the user with that property value. Its value is case-sensitive, its letter cases MUST be preserved. The IMPP or SOCIALPROFILE value type MUST be URI.¶
username-param = "USERNAME" "=" param-value¶
SOCIALPROFILE;USERNAME="The Foo":https://example.com/@foo¶
This specification extends the vCard Format Specification. The same security considerations as outlined in Section 9 of [RFC6350] apply.¶
IANA is requested to add the following entries to the "vCard Properties" registry, defined in Section 10.3.1. of [RFC6350].¶
Namespace | Property | Reference |
---|---|---|
CREATED | This document, Section 3.1 | |
GRAMGENDER | This document, Section 3.3 | |
LANGUAGE | This document, Section 3.2 | |
PRONOUNS | This document, Section 3.4 | |
SOCIALPROFILE | This document, Section 3.5 |
IANA is requested to add Section 2.1 of this document as reference for the ADR property.¶
IANA is requested to add Section 2.2 of this document as reference for the N property.¶
IANA is requested to add the following entries to the "vCard Parameters" registry, defined in Section 10.3.2. of [RFC6350].¶
Namespace | Parameter | Reference |
---|---|---|
AUTHOR | This document, Section 4.1 | |
AUTHOR-NAME | This document, Section 4.2 | |
CREATED | This document, Section 4.3 | |
DERIVED | This document, Section 4.4 | |
PHONETIC | This document, Section 4.5 | |
PROP-ID | This document, Section 4.6 | |
SCRIPT | This document, Section 4.7 | |
SERVICE-TYPE | This document, Section 4.8 | |
USERNAME | This document, Section 4.9 |
IANA is requested to add the following entries to the "vCard Property Values" registry, defined in Section 10.3.4. of [RFC6350].¶
Property | Value | Reference |
---|---|---|
GRAMGENDER | animate | This document, Section 3.3 |
GRAMGENDER | common | This document, Section 3.3 |
GRAMGENDER | feminine | This document, Section 3.3 |
GRAMGENDER | inanimate | This document, Section 3.3 |
GRAMGENDER | masculine | This document, Section 3.3 |
GRAMGENDER | neuter | This document, Section 3.3 |
IANA is requested to add the following entries to the "vCard Parameter Values" registry, defined in Section 10.3.4. of [RFC6350].¶
Property | Parameter | Value | Reference |
---|---|---|---|
ADR | TYPE | billing | This document, Section 5.1 |
ADR | TYPE | delivery | This document, Section 5.2 |
ADR | TYPE | delivery | This document, Section 5.2 |
ADR, N | PHONETIC | ipa | This document, Section 4.5 |
ADR, N | PHONETIC | jyut | This document, Section 4.5 |
ADR, N | PHONETIC | piny | This document, Section 4.5 |
ADR, N | PHONETIC | script | This document, Section 4.5 |
The definition and examples of the PHONETIC (Section 4.5) and SCRIPT (Section 4.7) parameters are based on the initial version of [I-D.calconnect-vobject-i18n].¶