RE: Access Rights According to CSA

["Uppili Srinivasan" <USRINIVA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay Bateson: 
 
I am in total agreement that we must get in synch. regarding the 
basic architecture for Calendaring before we get into other details.   
 
Independent of that, this is my take on CSA. 
 
Our experience with XAPIA-CSA is quite different from yours.   
We found the API to be simple.  Implementing it for Oracle's  
calendaring service as well as using this API was quite straight  
forward, most importantly because we felt that the service abstraction 
captured by this API in almost all aspects was coherent and adaptable. 
 
This turned out to be a pleasant surprise to us since we didn't  
directly or actively influence its definition, but virtually all other  
major vendors (such as Microsoft, IBM, Lotus and Sun) did.  I believe  
its usefulness comes from the fact that it captured the *common*  
architectural principles behind these diverse *working* solutions. 
 
It is my take that Internet standards distinguish themselves  
because they become standards after the proof of worth is established  
through robust *working* implementations.  If we are to be consistent  
with this philosophy, CSA should remain an important source of reference  
in our effort. 
 
Thanks. 
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• To: ietf-calendar,<ietf-calendar@xxxxxxx>
• Subject: RE: Access Rights According to CSA
• From: "Jay Batson <JBATSON@xxxxxxxxxx>" <owner-ietf-calendar@xxxxxxx>
• Date: 30 Jul 96 09:21:26
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On 7/30/96 at 11:33AM Darren Shakib said:
>Maybe I am wrong, but isn't this discussion a little premature.  We have
>not defined any of the basic architecture for Calendaring, but we are
>discussing how to describe the access permissions via an undetermined
>protocol.

Hear hear.

And for the record, my take on the reasons CSA didn't go anywhere is that 
it was too big.

Pretty soon you'll be sick of my battle cry, but it's:
	"Remember SNMP".
Let's start with something *simple*.

-jb
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