Re: CounterOffer issue

[Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Rik Drummond wrote:
> Vcalendar, solves *most* of the data format and data exchange
> issues...Correct?  What we need to define is how the clients and  servers
> inter-communicate.
> 
> I hope we are using the Vcalendar stuff as the basis and not re-inventing
> things all over again.  If we are NOT I really question "if the not
> invented here" syndrome is not having a major impact on some of the
> participants to the detriment of the effort.

My personal position would be to resist changes to vCalendar, unless there
are identified bugs.  The only bug I've seen identified in vCalendar so
far is that it permits event specifications that are ambiguous in the
global Internet without external profiling information (specificly, the
sender's timezone rules name).