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 vCard 4 is work in progress (by the vcarddav group in IETF) on an update/replacement to/for vCard 3, RFC 2426.
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 * keep properties backward compatible in general, just adding detail params (like TZ and GEO) where it progressively enhances the property without breaking any existing semantics.
+=== section 5.13 ===
+.13.  FMTTYPE
+This seems like a reasonable property parameter addition for binary value types.
+=== section 6. ===
+The current cardinality shorthands are cryptic, please use something more typically readable, e.g.:
+* (1) - exactly one instance must be present
+* (1-n) - at least one instance must be present
+* (0-1) - at most one instance may be present
+* (0-n) - any number of instances may be present
+=== section 6.1 ===
+.1.  General Properties
+no content.
+=== section 6.1.1. BEGIN ===
+no comment. seems compatible.
+=== section 6.1.2. END ===
+no comment. seems compatible.
+=== section 6.1.3. SOURCE ===
+.1.3.  SOURCE
+no comment. seems compatible.
+=== section 6.1.4.  KIND ===
+.1.4.  KIND
+I think this is a really bad idea.
+While existing usage of vCard3 for both people and organizations is something we have to support moving forward, I really don't want to see this expanded further (with the possible exception of a named location - which we've found utility for with hCard as well).
+Object to: group, thing
+Groups should not just be a form of vCard.  And thing?  I think both of these are horrible abuse of existing vCard semantics.
+If you want to add new objects, let's add new objects like a vGroup or a vThing etc. But please let's not bloat vCard with these things.
+=== section 6.1.5.  XML ===
+.1.5.  XML
+I think this is totally unnecessary and a bad idea because it violates DRY.
+Seriously? An XML property that represents all the rest of the data in the same vCard? Ugh. Which do you trust? The XML or the actual vCard properties?
 == related ==
 * [[Standards]]