RE: RE[2]: MIME as an appointment element separator - good move...

[Alec Dun <AlecDu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very cool!  And you're using MIME too!

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> From: 	Skip Montanaro[SMTP:skip@automatrix.com]
> Reply To: 	skip@calendar.com
> Sent: 	Saturday, December 7, 1996 10:33 PM
> To: 	Ken Shan
> Cc: 	Alec Dun; ietf-calendar@imc.org
> Subject: 	Re: RE[2]: MIME as a vCalendar element separator - bad
> move...
> 
> >>>>> "Ken" == Ken Shan <ken@digitas.org> writes:
> 
>     Ken> Alec Dun wrote:
>     >> How many people are intending to build calendaring products
> that will
>     >> not be capable of sending meeting requests to others via
> e-mail?
> 
>     Ken> We are.  On the sending side we plan to have Web-downloadable
> event
>     Ken> schedules (in particular courses); on the receiving side the
> user
>     Ken> either drags these to their own calendaring application or
> uses a Java
>     Ken> applet.  For simple unidirectional exchanges like these we
> don't
>     Ken> really need MIME.
> 
> Ditto here at calendar.com, though I would say we are more of a
> calendar-enabled application.  We will almost certainly just be
> generators
> of vCalendar-type things.  In fact, you can yank vCards and vCalendars
> from
> Musi-Cal and the Internet Conference Calendar now if you've got
> handlers for
> text/x-vCard or text/x-vCalendar MIME types.  We demonstrated this at
> Networld+Interop in Atlanta.
> 
> 	http://concerts.calendar.com/
> 	http://conferences.calendar.com/
> 
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