The People Data API as currently defined (http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/gdata/people/reference.html) is very thin and is missing a lot of fields that are already out there in things like VCard, FOAF, Outlook CSV and OpenID Attribute Exchange. What's the process for defining the schema and how can we get involved?

The People Data API also uses a data layout that doesn't really match the style that has developed in FOAF as the dominant convention. eg

GData - People Feed = All the data about one person - Friends Feed = All the data about one person's friends but not the data about that person

FOAF - Person Feed = All the data about one person + Name, ID, link to feed for each friend.

The FOAF style makes more sense to me. I'd like to suggest that GData supports something like this. - Person Feed = All the data about one person - Friends Feed = All the data about one person plus minimal data about all their friends but with a link to the Person Feed for each friend.

Again, is there some mechanism for getting this request heard?