RE: ISSUE-98: contactsDataModel (from Suresh)

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From: public-device-apis-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-device-apis-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Robin Berjon
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 8:24 AM
To: Rich Tibbett
Cc: public-device-apis@w3.org; Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com
Subject: Re: ISSUE-98: contactsDataModel (from Suresh)

On Sep 29, 2010, at 01:30 , Rich Tibbett wrote:
>> , except the following ones:
>> -          updated
> 
> = vCard 'rev' field (v2.1-v4).
> 
>> -          relationships
> 
> = vCard 'relation' field (v4 only but quite easily 'x-relation' for
vCard v2.1-v3).
> 
>> -          anniversary (not present in vCard)
>> 
> 
> = vCard 'anniversary' field (v4 only but quite easily 'x-anniversary'
for vCard v2.1-v3).
> 
>> I'd suggest that we address this in multiple steps e.g. as below
>> 
>> 1)      Agree on the set of fields to include
> 
> It seems we agree on the general fields pending discussion of the
above 3 fields (updated, relationships and anniversary).

Right, so my question here is: how do we move forward on these? I don't
believe we've framed the discussion on these enough that we can solve
them on the call. What are the use cases and issues, the risks and
rewards of supporting them?

It seems to me that "updated" is useful for any kind of synchronisation
(vital for cheap sync at least). I'll note that it does *not* depend on
published (if there is no published field the PoCo requirement is simply
moot). What are the risks?

To me "anniversary" doesn't seem dead useful, and its semantics are
slightly problematic. Is it appropriate to use it for civil unions? For
cohabitation? Does it stay valid in case of divorce? How does it apply
to poly{gamy,amory}?

For "relationships" I'm not sure. It's certainly tempting to have people
define their own social network locally, but this has specific semantics
(in the PoCo text at least) of relationships having been bidirectionally
confirmed, which seems like more than a bit of a hurdle.

Suresh>> I would tend to agree with these comments, and my proposal
would be to keep these fields out at the moment, so we have a good set
of fields that are not controversial and we can move forward on.

Suresh

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Robin Berjon
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