2.1.2 Calendaring and Scheduling Standards Simplification (calsify)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 65th IETF Meeting in Dallas, TX USA. It may now be out-of-date.

Last Modified: 2005-11-11

Chair(s):

Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
Aki Niemi <aki.niemi@nokia.com>

Applications Area Director(s):

Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>
Scott Hollenbeck <sah@428cobrajet.net>

Applications Area Advisor:

Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>

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Description of Working Group:

The Calendaring and Scheduling standards, defined in RFC's 2445, 2446,
and 2447 were released in November 1998, and further described in RFC
3283. They were designed to progress the level of interoperability
between dissimilar calendaring and scheduling systems. The Calendaring
and Scheduling Core Object Specification, iCalendar, succeeded in
establishing itself as the common format for exchanging calendaring
information across the Internet. On the other hand, only basic
interoperability as been achieved between different scheduling systems.

The Calsify working group is chartered to:

(1) Publish the interoperability issues that have arisen between
calendaring and scheduling systems, as well as document the usage of
iCalendar by other specifications.

(2) Revise the Calendaring and Scheduling standards to advance the
state of interoperable calendaring and scheduling by addressing
the published interoperability issues. As far as it is possible, the
working group will ensure backwards compatibility with widely deployed
implementations and other specifications that use it.

(3) Clarify the registration process for iCalendar extensions (i.e.,
the current core object specification only provides a template
to register new properties).

(4) Advance the Calendaring and Scheduling standards to Draft Standard.

(5) Work on transition (upgrade or versioning) mechanisms for calendar
data exchange.

Proposing an XML representation or transformation of iCalendar
objects is out of the scope of this working group.

Goals and Milestones:

Jul 2005  Submit draft documenting interoperability issues for use in progressing RFCs to Draft Standard.
Done  Submit iMIP bis draft 00
Done  Submit iCalendar bis draft 00, with formatting changes from RFC2445.
Done  Submit iTIP bis draft 00
Oct 2005  Submit revised interoperability issues draft version based on WG discussion.
Dec 2005  WG decision on what document(s) require transition mechanisms and hopefully rough idea what these will look like (and add new goals if needed)
Mar 2006  WG last call on interoperability issues draft.
May 2006  Submit interoperability issues document to IESG for Informational RFC.
May 2006  Submit version of iCalendar bis draft that addresses known interoperability issues from interop events.
Jun 2006  Submit versions of iTIP and iMIP that address known interoprability issues.
Jul 2006  Submit version of iCalendar draft that addresses WG open discussions.
Sep 2006  Submit version of iCalendar draft ready for WG last call.
Nov 2006  Complete WG last call of iCalendar and submit new draft.
Nov 2006  Submit versions of iTIP and iMIP ready for last call.
Jan 2007  Submit iCalendar (bis) to IESG for Draft Standard.
Jan 2007  Complete WG last call of iTIP
Feb 2007  Complete WG last call of iMIP
Mar 2007  Submit iTIP to IESG for Draft Standard.
Apr 2007  Submit iMIP to IESG for Draft Standard.

Internet-Drafts:

  • draft-ietf-calsify-rfc2447bis-01.txt
  • draft-ietf-calsify-2446bis-01.txt
  • draft-ietf-calsify-rfc2445bis-00.txt

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