RE: CounterOffer issue

["Lewis Geer (Exchange)" <lewisg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you explicate a little further?  What was wrong in XAPIA that 
caused it not to be widely adopted?  What was changed to fix this?  How 
is vcalendar internet centered?

Lewis

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	owner-ietf-calendar@imc.org [SMTP:owner-ietf-calendar@imc.org] On 
> Behalf Of drummond@onramp.net
> Sent:	Friday, December 06, 1996 11:29 AM
> To:	Chris Newman
> Cc:	ietf-calendar
> Subject:	Re: CounterOffer issue
> 
> 
> I agree.  VCalendar is a result of a 4 year process first starting in 
> XAPIA
> as a specification that was not implemented .... learning from that 
> effort
> the "experts" came up with vCalendar sponsored by the Versit consortium.
> Now both of these efforts were sponsored by multi-vendor consortiums 
> ....
> vCalendar is not vendor specific... it is also VERY Internet centered in
> its architecture and construction. I can't think of a better place to
> start.
> 
> If we don't start with vCalendar as the foundation, correct its bugs, 
> and
> the extend it as appropriate...we are making a MAJOR mistake!
> 
> Later.....Rik
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:58 AM 12/6/96, Chris Newman wrote:
> >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).
> 
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