[NEW KEP] KEP #17: Kolab XML Format 3.0

[Christian Mollekopf]

On 2012-03-06 9:48, Thomas Brüderli wrote:
> Christian Mollekopf wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> A first draft of a KEP which rebases the whole Kolab XML Format on 
>> the xCal&
>> xCard RFCs resulting in the Kolab XML Format 3.0 specification, has 
>> been
>> released.
>>
>>          KEP 17: Kolab XML Format 3.0
>>          http://wiki.kolab.org/User:Mollekopf/Drafts/KEP:17
>>
>> The KEP still has some rough edges, but should define everything in 
>> the scope
>> of the KEP or declare that a topic still needs clarification. This 
>> KEP follows
>> the discussions in [1],[2],[3].
>
> Hello
>
> I have a few comments concerning the Distribution Lists:
>
> 1) In the old Kolab format, the following value for X-Kolab-Type was
> used: "application/x-vnd.kolab.distribution-list"
>
> You now propose to use "application/x-vnd.kolab.contact.distlist"
> instead. Is this on purpose? Maybe it's irrelevant once an account is
> entirely migrated but I see other object types on your draft still
> having the same X-Kolab-Type assigned as before. And in order to
> implement a storage layer which can cope with both the old and the 
> new
> format it would be much appreciated if these headers would remain the 
> same.
>

Not sure why I changed that... We can continue to use 
"application/x-vnd.kolab.distribution-list" though, so I'll change that 
back.

> 2) The old format also stored the contact UID within the members list 
> of
> a distribution list. This made it easier to connect a member to a
> contact object and to propagate changes from the contact record to 
> the
> distributions list. Would it be possible to add an (optional) uid
> element to the member element?
>

This seems to be a shortcoming of the vcard spec. The only option I see 
is adding a x-uid parameter to the property.
I'm going to update that too.

Cheers,
Christian

> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
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