[Ietf-carddav] minor comments on -01 draft
Arnaud Quillaud
Arnaud.Quillaud at Sun.COM
Thu May 10 05:51:58 PDT 2007
> >
> > 5.1 vCard Object Resources
> >
> > "UID must be unique within a collection".
> >
> > Nevertheless, according to the UID definition in vCard
> > (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2426#section-3.6.7), the UID
> identifies
> > the individual or resource. So potentially, you could have
> a personal
> > vCard and a business vCard corresponding to the same individual. I
> > doubt that it will be the case in practice but who knows...
>
> We do need some unique identifier in the vCard data so UID
> seems to fit the bill. Perhaps we can allow vCards with the
> same UID but require them to be stored in the same WebDAV resource?
>
I brought this up mainly to get a confirmation from the list that no existing software actually does what I have described. Unless somebody objects, I think you should stick with your original design.
Arnaud
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