WIth special thanks to MySpace, a participant in the Portable Contacts working group, who have volunteered to sponsor and host this event at their San Francisco office.

Portable Contacts is a community effort, with a goal of making it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web. Specifically, we seek to create:

• A common access pattern and contact schema that any site can provide
• Well-specified authentication and access rules
• Standard libraries that can work with any site
• and absolutely minimal complexity, with the lightest possible toolchain requirements for developers.