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I'm trying to figure out how to find out if there's a good standard format for sharing business information such as:

Business Name
Address - well-defined fields
Lat,Lng Coords
Business Type - maybe from a well-defined enum, my starting point contains Retail,Food,Drink,Coffee,Service
Hours of operation - including a spot for 'except laksdasd' or 'sometimes we open late' which could be just plain language
Business Keywords - don't know if this is asking too much. how well do http meta tags work in practice?

So, if no such thing exists, is this something I can submit to IETF?

I can't currently find it on http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rfcsearch.pl , and vCard doesn't suit my needs.. Thanks!

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Why don't you use a well-known, "generic" format such as JSON or XML, and just implement the fields you want? – Robert Harvey Dec 30 '10 at 23:08
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@Robert, I presume it's the ontology he's after, not the markup format. – Graham Lee Dec 31 '10 at 10:02
vCard really is the most common standard way to share contact information. If it doesn't suit your needs, though, use a less specific standard, like CSV with headers (in exactly one encoding please) – TokenMacGuy Feb 6 '11 at 3:57
Is this the sort of thing that RDFa was made for? Or microformats? diveintohtml5.org/extensibility.html – TRiG Aug 12 '11 at 16:44

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I think that there is an issue with your search criteria in that you are looking for a a RFC that is too specific. Ultimately what the problem boils down to is an application protocol for reading, and modifying directories over an IP network, which exists.

LDAP

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