On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 22:34 -0800, Tantek =?ISO-8859-1?B?xw==?=elik wrote: > 1) it's already used to mean "job title" in the context of > microformats. > 2) the concept that it is being proposed to represent is the *name* of > an > audio item. "fn" already means the name of an item. we should not > introduce a new term to mean the same thing as an existing term.
"fn" in vcard rfc 2426[1] [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt inherits its semantics from X.520[2] (2001) “commonName.” attribute [2] http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/database/itu-t/x/x520/2001/SelectedAttributeTypes.html [3] "[...The Common Name attribute type specifies an identifier of an object. A Common Name is not a directory name; it is a (possibly ambiguous)...]" http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk/x500book/Chapter.3/Chapter3b.htm It may be more desirable to use "cn" meaning "common-name" instead of "fn" the semantics are more precise and we are not confusing anyone with using "fn" Thanks Martin McEvoy _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
