Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] difference in UID between vCard 3.0 and vCard 4.0 / relationship to CardDAV

From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:02:48 -0700

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On 1/19/11 9:37 AM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> On 2011-01-19 11:31, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
>> There is also the question of what a vcard v3 client will do with
>> UID;VALUE=URI:xxx - will it preserve the parameter? If not, then CardDAV
>> servers are going to have to cope with re-writing UID to/from vcard 3
>> clients.
> 
> That's forward compatibility, which is different from backward
> compatibility. If the WG decides it also wants forward compatibility,
> there is a lot of work ahead of us.

I agree that this was not in scope for our design effort, and that
adding it now is inadvisable.

Peter

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