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	Title		: Web based Simple Calendar Access Protocol - SCAP
	Author(s)	: S. Reddy
	Filename	: draft-ietf-calsch-scap-00.txt
	Pages		: 45
	Date		: 27-Apr-98
	
   Distributed calendaring is gradually becoming more demanding than
   standalone calendaring and scheduling. The use of calendaring and
   scheduling has grown exponentially  and enterprise and inter-
   enterprise business has become so dependent on group scheudling
   applications. But there is no Internet standard to provide
   interoperability among various calendaring applications.
   Consequently, user need to install different conduit programs to
   access these calendaring stores. This memo proposes a HTTP based
   simple calendaring access protocol which allows web, email and any
   HTTP compliant clients to access and manipulate calendar store.
 
   The motivation for this proposal is the expanded scope and diversity
   of the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web provides a simple and
   effective means for users to search, browse, retrieve, and publish
   information of their own available for others. Now that Web browsers
   and servers are ubiquitous on the Internet, it is worthwhile to use
   HTTP as transport protocol and XML to encode calendar objects. The
   power and extensibility of XML allows us to represent calendar data
   objects as well-formed XML documents.
 
   Simple Calendar Access Protocol(SCAP) allows exchanging calendaring
   information between scheduling systems using the Hypertext Transfer
   Protocol (HTTP). This allows users to schedule meetings with anyone
   else, no matter what scheduling software they use.
 
   This document specifies a set of methods, headers, and content-types
   ancillary to HTTP/1.1 for the management of calender properties,
   creation and management of calendar objects, and namespace
   manipulation.


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