WS-Calendar Version 1.0 approved as a Committee Specification

OASIS Members,  We are pleased to announce the approval of an OASIS Committee Specification (CS) by the members of the OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar)

TC:  WS-Calendar Version 1.0 Committee Specification 01 30 July 2011  Overview: WS-Calendar describes .
A semantic (or information) model for exchange of calendar information to coordinate activities .
A means of synchronizing and maintaining calendars  The specification includes XML vocabularies for the interoperable and standard exchange of: .
Schedules, including sequences of schedules .
Intervals, including sequences of Intervals .
Other calendar information consistent with the IETF iCalendar standards  These vocabularies describe schedules and Intervals future, present, or past (historical).  The specification is divided into three parts. 1) The information model and XML vocabularies for exchanging schedule information 2) RESTful Services for calendar update and synchronization 3) Web services for calendar update and synchronization  The Technical Committee will publish Parts 2 and 3 in a later version.  URIs: The prose specification document and related files are available here:  PDF:  http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01.pdf
HTML:  http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01.html
Editable source:  http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01.doc
Distribution ZIP files Entire specification:  http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01.zip
Schemas:  http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/xsd/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01-schemas.zip
Members of the OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar)

TC [1] requested a Special Majority Vote to approve this specification as a Committee Specification. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve at Committee Specification (CS) level passed [3], and the approved CS 01 is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.  Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone.  /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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Additional references:  [1] OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar)

TC      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-calendar
[2] Public review and CS approval     15-day Public Review:  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201106/msg00006.html
15-day Public Review:  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201104/msg00004.html      60-day Public Review:  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201009/msg00011.html
[3] CS ballot      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2073