Re: Calsch and CPL discussions

[John Stracke <francis@xxxxxxxx>]

"Shannon J. Clark" wrote:

> That is, the iCalendar spec would
> be spec that uses the RRULES, which would be available to be used by other
> specs or used separately by applications.

I don't see how that would be useful, though; if you want to incorporate RECUR,
you really need most of the machinery of iCalendar.  You may not need, say,
COMMENT, or ATTENDEE, but it'll be easier to leave those out than to reinvent
RRULE, RDATE, EXRULE, EXDATE, DTSTART, DTEND, TZID, VTIMEZONE, and all the
rest.

> Thus the revised iCalendar spec would be a simpler document which used the
> RRULES by reference, rather than by definition.

But, if you have to use the external document, then things aren't simpler,
they're harder, because you have to keep chasing pointers.  Worse, if people
don't realize they have to go find the RECUR definition, then we can wind up
with noncompliant implementations.

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