Andy Powell wrote:
...
>
> We seem to have reached that awkward point in a mailing list discussion
> where most things that are going to be said have been said but we still
> haven't reached a decision. My personal view is that reaching a decision
> (any decision!) is more important than reaching a particular decision - in
> that spirit I'm swayed by Chris's arguments and more than willing to go
> along with his proposal, i.e. that when creating a vCard for an
> organisation we should
>
Yes, I was convinced about the need to fill in the mandatory parts of
the vCard and convinced by Chris about what best to put in N. If
Everyone else is happy with what Andy has below, then so am I.
Phil.
> - place the name into FN
> - place the name into the 'additional names' component of N, leaving all
> other components blank
> - place the name into ORG
>
> e.g.
>
> <![CDATA[BEGIN:VCARD
> FN:University of Oxford
> N:;;University of Oxford
> ORG:University of Oxford
> VERSION:3.0
> END:VCARD]]>
>
> (Note that I've added VERSION to Chris's original proposal, because it
> seems to me that if we're trying to go down the road of being as compliant
> with vCard as possible, then we might as well go the whole hog and include
> VERSION, which is mandatory in vCard).
>
> Conversely, for parsers the rule is
>
> - if ORG == FN == additional names component of N, then the vCard
> represents an organisation
>
> I hope I haven't mis-represented Chris's proposal. Chris, shout if I
> have.
>
> Do we have enough concensus to agree on this as a way forward?
>
> Andy
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