[ih] The web as wind and whirlwind? (was Re: History from 1960s to 2025)

[Dave Crocker]

On 12/20/2025 3:53 PM, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
>
> It would have been a pain to write, but vastly useful to consumers, 
> had things like this been followed:
>
> <name><firstname>John</><lastname>Doe</></>


Note the .ics documents that do show up.

RFC 6350: vCard Format Specification <#>

🔗 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6350 
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6350>

  and

RFC 5545: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification 
(iCalendar) <#>

🔗 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5545 
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5545>


It was fun negotiating for the release of the intellectual property from 
the group that created the original version of this work.  And it was at 
their initiative...

d/

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Dave Crocker

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