vCard is great, but it's never really become "webby". I see Portable Contacts as taking vCard and introducing it to the web.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Nat Sakimura <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO, all the data types in your table should be supported, and then grouped > into "classes". > Portable contact is very useful, but so is vCard, as you can use it to > populate many address books. (Besides, vCard covers everything in Portable > contact.) > It is not much of fragmentations nor too much work on the OP part. > Having said that, I am not particularly pushing for vCard. It was a merely > an example of the notion of the "class". > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Chris Messina <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I think that would create mire fragmentation at thus point. >> >> I think PortableContacts is the right collection of attributes for AX and >> OpenID and should largely be adopted as the standard for OpenID. Facebook >> Connect is much easier to work with because it reduces complexity and the >> number of options for doing things -- like the number of formats for >> accessing user data. >> >> If sites that want to adopt OpenID have to learn some custom profile data >> schema AS WELL AS PortableContacs -- they're likely to skip it and go >> straight to FB Connect. >> >> I've proposed a schema for using PoCo with AX; why don't we move to >> improve it and make it the standard for OpenID going forward? >> >> Chris >> >> Sent from my iPhone 2G >> >> On Dec 7, 2009, at 6:53, Nat <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Shade, >>> >>> That's exactly what I was proposing: the class for AX. >>> >>> For example, vCard will be one class in axschema. The same for openSocial >>> person etc. >>> >>> e.g. >>> >>> http://axschema.org/vCard will specify all the sub-items of a vCard. >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> =...@tokyo via iPhone >>> >>> On 2009/12/07, at 10:05, David Recordon <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> It's missing out on the idea of having a schema which can cross >>>> contexts. Right now each schema – with the exception of AXSchema.org >>>> – has no concept of namespaces and stands alone. We've always wanted >>>> a schema which uses URLs to identify each element, but there haven't >>>> been any. Maybe Portable Contacts wants to take this on since it is >>>> also used by OpenSocial? >>>> >>>> --David >>>> >>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Chris Messina <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I did this in June: >>>>> >>>>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pSGbbhtwI4kN_nJ1GXeQ7Qg&output=html >>>>> I just wish someone would actually use it! >>>>> Chris >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM, SitG Admin >>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm specifically pointing out that AXSchema reinvents vcard and a >>>>>>> host of >>>>>>> other profile formats, which adds yet another burden for developers >>>>>>> to map >>>>>>> other schema, like Portable Contacts, to the AXSchema. >>>>>> >>>>>> Could these other profile formats be mapped, on an alias, to a set of >>>>>> AXScheme that collectively mirror each format? As in, "vcard" alias >>>>>> maps to >>>>>> a set of AXSchema that actually just mirror 'vcard' format. >>>>>> >>>>>> -Shade >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Chris Messina >>>>> Open Web Advocate >>>>> >>>>> Personal: http://factoryjoe.com >>>>> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina >>>>> >>>>> Citizen Agency: http://citizenagency.com >>>>> Diso Project: http://diso-project.org >>>>> OpenID Foundation: http://openid.net >>>>> >>>>> This email is: [ ] shareable [X] ask first [ ] private >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> specs mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> specs mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs > > > > -- > Nat Sakimura (=nat) > http://www.sakimura.org/en/ > _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
