Re: Clarification for Free/Busy

[Tim Hare <TimHare@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

First- let me apologize for the poor formatting of my table - I'll have to 
come up with a better way to reference information best suited to a table.

Second - to clarify one thing, the "not there" column means that the STATUS 
property of the VEVENT is not present, I was trying to provide for the case 
where we could not determine the status from the property.

Third - since the Free/Busy query is directed toward one explicit calendar 
UID,  I'm not sure we need to worry about attendee PARTSTAT - aren't we 
really querying the free/busy times on that VCALENDAR/VAGENDA ?

Fourth- I'm willing to accept that OPAQUE+CONFIRMED = BUSY instead of 
BUSY-UNAVAILABLE as Dan Winship stated, but then where do BUSY-UNAVAILABLE 
statuses come from - other parts of a CUA that "know" my normal working 
hours? In my use of my calendaring software at work, I have to schedule my 
vacation time on my calendar. I don't know how I'd indicate that to my 
software to return that as BUSY-UNAVAILABLE. Not saying it can't be 
done;  I'm just unclear about where it comes from.

Fifth- if an attendee has declined an invitation then the time on their 
calendar should be FREE if (and only if) there is no other VEVENT in that 
time period.

Sixth- this is for automated Free/Busy replies to a query, not to 
publishing free/busy time since that publishing effort could be done by any 
number of things.

Tim Hare
Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.