The Problem of Flabby partitions (Short Fuse)

Irrespective of the Inheritance problem posed last night, partitions present some issues in flabbiness.

I would like to propose the following processing rules for Intervals to support the frequent exchange of Partitions.

“For Intervals, a relation can be expressed solely by a reference UID.  If the Related-To UID exists, the Relationship defaults to “FINISHSTART”, and the Duration defaults to “PT0M”. This rule applies only to the WS-Calendar component “Interval”. Other components must fully express their relationships.
This means that within a partition, the following:

<xcal:interval>
                <xcal:properties>
                                <xcal:related-to>
                                                <xcal:uid></xcal:uid>
                                </xcal:related-to>
                </xcal:properties>
</xcal:interval>

Fully expresses that this interval Starts as soon as 4425e05d-61be-46db-b460-eeb992f1b54f finishes, with an zero-duration intervening time. Of course, it I still legal to express a different relation, and a different intervening duration.

Any objections?

tc

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