15-day Public Review for OASIS WS-Calendar Version 1.0

The OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) TC [1] members have produced  
an updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this  
specification for 15-day public review:

WS-Calendar Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 04 / Public Review Draft 03

17 June 2011

Specification Overview:

The WS-Calendar specification adapts the existing specifications for  
calendaring and applies them to a new specification for how schedule and  
event information is passed between and within services. The standard adopts  
the semantics and vocabulary of iCalendar for application to the completion  
of web service contracts. WS Calendar builds on work done and ongoing in The  
Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect), which works to increase  
interoperation between calendaring systems, and the Internet Engineering Task  
Force (IETF). 

The specification describes how to specify a sequence of services, how to  
schedule them, and how to invoke them. The specification was developed to  
support use cases in smart grids and smart energy, but it supports any sort  
of coordinated activities between domains. The committee explicitly  
considered coordination between energy coordination, enterprise systems,  
building systems, and financial markets. 

The WS-Calendar specification also defines a conforming model for  
inheritance to reduce duplication of expression when similar services are  
requested in a recurring schedule.

TC Description:

The OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) Technical Committee was  
chartered to adapt the existing specifications for calendaring and apply them  
to develop a standard for how schedule and event information is passed  
between and within services. The standard should adopt the semantics and  
vocabulary of iCalendar for application to the completion of web service  
contracts. 

Public Review Period:

The 15-day public review starts tomorrow, 29 June 2011 and ends 14 July 2011.  
The specification was previously submitted for a 15-day public review on 09  
April 2011 [2].  This 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from  
the previous review. Note that since the last review, numerous minor edits  
have applied across the document, and numerous things that were unclear have  
been made clearer. Of more substance, the REST and SOAP communications  
services were removed from the specification as they were not ready at this  
time. The TC work plan is to bring them back in as part of a later version of  
the specification 

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from  
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the  
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

PDF (Authoritative):

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/csprd03/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-csprd03.pdf

Editable source:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/csprd03/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-csprd03.doc

HTML:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/csprd03/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-csprd03.html

XML Schemas:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/csprd03/xsd/

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/csprd03/xsd/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-csprd03-schemas.zip

ZIP distribution package:

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose  
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download  
the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/csprd03/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-csprd03.zip

Additional information about this specification and the OASIS Web Services  
Calendar (WS-Calendar) TC may be found on the TC's public home page located  
at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-calendar/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled "Send  
A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=ws-calendar

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-calendar-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,  
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at  
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public  
review of 'WS-Calendar Version 1.0', we call your attention to the OASIS IPR  
Policy [3] applicable especially [4] to the work of this technical committee.  
All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create  
obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent,  
copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS  
specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to  
disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above  
specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for  
this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) TC

      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-calendar/

[2] Previous public review (09 April 2011 through 24 April 2011)

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201104/msg00005.html

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-calendar/ipr.php

      http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.3

      Non-Assertion IPR Mode

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

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