RE: Accurate location information is a "must have" requirement

["Roland H. Alden" <ralden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In response to Skip Montanaro's comments about location
information I'd like to put forth a wacky idea.

In addition to a "location," an "event", if it is a "meeting"
often has an list of "attendees".

Versit's vCard spec defines a format for "person" information
which zeros in on location pretty well. In addition to the
Time Zone and Latitude/Longitude info Skip mentioned, it
has all the address structuring stuff needed to represent
a physical address in a machine-readable way. 

I put forth two ideas here. One is that a vCard is a good
representation for a meeting *attendee*. It can represent
attendees which have electronically reachable calendaring
agents (via email address or URL type pointers) and it can
represent those who do not, which is a plus in certain
scenarios. The second idea is that a vCard which represents a
place, in lieu of a person, be used to represent the meeting
*location* in whatever level of resolution is deemed useful.
Internally it may just need to be a conference room name but
as Skip points out, the further afield an attendee is, the
more likely that details like address, and even an attached
map, become useful in most applications, and mandatory in some.

-Roland



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