Registration of media type text/vcard

[Julian Reschke]

On 18.08.2010 18:21, Simon Perreault wrote:
>     Type name:  text
>
>     Subtype name:  vcard
>
>     Required parameters:  none
>
>     Optional parameters:  version
>
>        The "version" parameter is to be interpreted identically as the
>        VERSION vCard property.  If this parameter is present, all vCards
>        in a text/vcard body part MUST have a VERSION property with value
>        identical to that of this MIME parameter.
>
>     Encoding considerations:  The "charset" MIME parameter, if present,
>        MUST be set to "UTF-8", as defined in [RFC3629].
> ...

I wonder whether restricting the allowed values of charset to "UTF-8" is 
compatible with <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288#section-4.2.1>:

    The "text" media type is intended for sending material that is
    principally textual in form.  A "charset" parameter MAY be used to
    indicate the charset of the body text for "text" subtypes, notably
    including the subtype "text/plain", which is a generic subtype for
    plain text defined in [RFC2046].  If defined, a text "charset"
    parameter MUST be used to specify a charset name defined in
    accordance to the procedures laid out in [RFC2978].

If we all agree this is ok it might be good to submit an erratum fpr RFC 
4288.

Best regards, Julian