RE: CounterOffer issue

[martin.knutson@xxxxxxxxxxx (Martin Knutson)]

While one could argue about whether the XAPIA specification was widely
adopted or not, I think it's usefulness was limited by the fact that
althought it specified a data model for the calendar store, and a
standard set of interfaces for interacting with that data model, it
didn't make a strong attempt at defining interchange formats or
wire protocol.  The vCalendar work takes up pretty well where XAPIA 
left off.

Martin Knutson

> From owner-ietf-calendar@mail.proper.com Mon Dec  9 10:33 PST 1996
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> From: Frank Dawson <fdawson@earthlink.net>
> To: "'Chris Newman'" <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>,
        "'drummond@onramp.net'"
	 <drummond@onramp.net>,
        "'Lewis Geer (Exchange)'"
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> Cc: "'ietf-calendar'" <ietf-calendar@imc.org>
> Subject: RE: CounterOffer issue
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:14:51 -0500
> 
> Lewis Geer wrote, in part:
> 
> 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?
> 
> <FRD>The XAPIA CSA was accepted by four major calendar vendors. It is also 
imbedded in every COSE/CDE UN*X system that ships today.</FRD>
> 
> - - Frank
>