Calendars and Standards

We have long talked about how to get to a
calendar/scheduling element within oBIX. We also put that on the shelf for a
bit in the hopes of a WS-Calendar micro-specification that would be used by
oBIX and by partners in other domains.

 

Yesterday, a draft IETF specification for ICALENDAR in XML
was submitted; it should have an RFC # for discussion within the IETF Calsify
group. I urge oBIX folks to look at it and make comments. I have several, but
they would break backwards compatibility. For example, I would like the use the
URI to accept many rather than one, as this would work well in some of our use
cases (one schedule, several contracts). That could be handled in several other
ways as well.

 

 

Check it out…

 

 

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-daboo-et-al-icalendar-in-xml-00

http://xcal.cloudapp.net/

 

 

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-daboo-calendar-availability-01

 

we might need a meeting again, soon

 

tc

 

"It is the theory that decides what can be observed."   - Albert Einstein

 

  
  
Toby Considine

  
Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical Committee

  Co-Chair, OASIS Technical Advisory Board

  Facilities Technology Office

  University of North Carolina

  Chapel Hill, NC

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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