Versit Consortium
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The Versit Consortium was a multivendor initiative founded by Apple Computer, AT&T, IBM and Siemens in the early 1990s in order to create Personal Data Interchange (PDI) technology and open specifications for exchanging personal data over the Internet.
In 1995, the Consortium proposed and went on to create the vCard and vCalendar technologies. vCards were intended to make it easy for many people using computers connected to the Internet to exchange contact information, while vCalendars were intended to make it easy for people to swap scheduling information.
In 1996, all rights to these technologies were transferred to the Internet Mail Consortium, a trade association headed by the original Versit Consortium members, which continues to maintain and develop the standards.
This was later extended to create technologies for VToDo, to transfer ToDo details between computing devices, and vBookmark, to transfer URLs between computing devices.
[edit] External links
- Minčių Sodas - Archive - Thinking Powerfully - Number 184 (Andrius Kulikauskas' reasoning for opposing XML as the format for vBookmark)
