Re: VCOMMAND Specification

[sman@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Mansour)]

George Babics wrote:

>   The only definition or specification given about VCOMMAND and
> CMDID are in section 2.7 of CAP:
>
>  *  A new iCalendar   component, VCOMMAND, has been added. VCOMMANDs are
>  needed to fully   specify  CAP commands.
>
>  *  TARGET is a new   property within   the VCOMMAND component. It indicates
>  the calendars to which the command applies
>
>  *  CMDID is a Command ID that is used in a   VCOMMAND to uniquely identify
>  a command.  Responses to a VCOMMAND will contain the same CMDID.
>
>   If I understand it correctly:
>
>   - VCOMMANDs are required for all CAP commands? (Or what is it meant by
>     "fully specify"?)

"fully specify" is misleading, it should be removed.  VCOMMANDs are the way to
specify a CAP command.

>   - CMDIDs are specified only with VCOMMAND?
>   - TARGETs are only specified in VCOMMAND?

yep

>   If the above is true, then why are there many examples of CAP
> commands without VCOMMANDs, and TARGETs and CMDIDs outside of VCOMMANDs?
> (Perhaps VCOMMAND was added in a latter version of the draft and some
> of the examples were not updated.)

The examples are messed up.

-Steve

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