Re: CounterOffer issue

[Kevin George <KGeorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/5/96 at  6:15PM you said:
>> The usual case meeting has been addressed by the current proposal: one
>> person (OWNER) calls a meeting and the other attendees can only(?) 
accept
>>or decline.
>
>Looks like you have only read the Microsoft draft 
>(draft-ietf-calsch-sch-00.txt).
>The Versit drafts (draft-dawson-csp-01.txt and draft-dawson-csct-01.txt) 
do
>discuss counter proposals, as well as delegation and also deals with 
tasks.
>Any useful scheduling protocol must support this meeting negotiation 
process.
>
>Having finally read through all these, I strongly feel the Versit draft 
has
> much
>more meat and would be a better starting point for a merge.  The 
Microsoft
>draft does have some good explanations in the Date, Time and Time zone
>issues section.
>
>People also need to keep in mind that many vendors today are implementing
>support for vCalendar.  It would be a shame to make all this obsolete 
rather
>than building upon it.  The next version of Lotus Organizer shall support
> both
>vCard and vCalendar as exchange formats.  You can cut a vCalendar or 
vCard
>stream of text and paste it into Organizer and have it correctly inserted 
as
> an
>appointment, task or address entry (hence the importance for the BEGIN/
END
>delimiters).  Organizer Web Calendar also supports publishing vCalendar
>items.  For more info see...http://www.lotus.com/organizer
>
>Versit also provided vendors common parsing code (in the form of a 
library)
>which greatly helped vendors support this format in a relatively short
>timeframe.  I'd encourage us to provide similar tools to help everyone 
use
>whatever standards we finally arrive at.
>
>- Vinod Seraphin
>
> 
======= Fwd by: Kevin George =======

>Any useful scheduling protocol must support this meeting negotiation 
process.

I agree.  Real world scheduling issues need real world scheduling 
solutions.  Support for meeting negotiation is essential!

>People also need to keep in mind that many vendors today are implementing
>support for vCalendar.  It would be a shame to make all this obsolete 
rather
>than building upon it.  

Absolutely!  ON Technology has been implementing support for vCalendar in 
our Meeting Maker product.  I agree that the Microsoft draft is not the 
right place to start.  vCalendar is.