vCard Format Specification

This specification has been revised 3 times since RFC 2425 (1998). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 2425 (1998)
  2. RFC 2426 (1998)
  3. RFC 4770 (2007)
  4. RFC 6350 (2011)

Current version — implement against this

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 6350 (August 2011).