Re: Status of the CALSCH working group

[John Stracke <jstracke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Royer wrote:

> > EXPAND and QUERYID -- I am having a hard time understanding how 
> > stored queries can be useful without search wildcards. Can anyone 
> > explain this to me? We dropped the ability to auto execute stored 
> > queries.
>
>
> There is NO restriction that the results of fetching a stored query 
> return static results (the
> same is true for all components) . So I could define (using 
> unspecified admin tools) a stored
> query called 'TODAY' that returns a dynamically returns a VQUERY when
> run returns the results of todays events from several calendars.

It basically democratizes the process of developing noninteroperable 
extensions: if your CS has these unspecified tools, then any admin can 
add new verbs to the protocol, and a CUA has to hope that the user knows 
what the stored query's name means.

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