I will have to look up what WebDAV is, but the rest of it sounds OK to me. I wonder if we should also, during our review process, look over the RDF calendar work to see where we can improve synergy with those efforts. At this point I don't understand RDF/Semantic Web items at a deep enough theoretical level but as an old, old, user of markup languages I do "get" the benefits of XML and I believe there were folks who took the xCal work and tried to extend it into RDF? XML also would allow RSS "feeds" of published calendar info such as schedules.
As all of the WebDAV implementations that I can find get/put .ics files and only one that I can find also supports RSS, I think if WebDAV makes it (and I hope it does), it should be iCal-ish and allow XML as an add-on. Then it is a simply a new transport like CAP or iMIP. iCal <-> XML(RDF?/RSS) can be separate from WebDAV as it will restart the old debates.
Should we extend iCal? - I think that if this happens [please no], it should be separate from a unity translation of iCal)
Some wanted it only if they could use XSLT. - I can use XSLT, but I do not care if code has to be written.
Some that wanted XSLT to be able to create the objects, did not care if it was a two way translation. - I think any such draft MUST consider translating the data in both directions.
In email, we were strongly informed that we should only allow xCal if it was a MUST that text/calendar also be included in the object. - I think that for compatibility we have to do this at least initially as iCal is still too new to obsolete which I think would be the effect.
Some of us have been emailing privately on this topic - I do not mean to imply I am the originator of all of the above ideas.
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