Contact Service Questions

Questions

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• Are KSS Media Types sufficient to accommodate Internationalization of contact info?
  
  We will need to consider whether adding media types - such as a "Japanese postal address type" - is sufficient to accommodate this need, or if some other extensions mechanism may be necessary. One potential source of inspiration is the OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee (UBL TC), which has done an enormous amount of work in the area of contact information, including Internationalization. Their customization guidelines (MS Word document) provide some guidelines on composing primitive types into new delivery address types, for instance, within the UBL context.

• What representation formats are required?
  
  Do we need to accommodate vCard (or an XHTML representation of same) at some point, in addition to the standard XML-based payload(s) for this service?