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Re: Clarification for Free/Busy





Tim Hare wrote:


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.

There is no predefined place it comes from. It is simply defended as time that can not
be scheduled. Perhaps it is a resource calendar that is off line for some specifically unspecified
reason.


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.


There is no predefined rule, it is up to the implementations which may have its own reasons.

Why do you think there has to be a predefined rule?

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.

I do not think that we can predefine what the rule is for calculating the BUSY-UNAVAILABLE time. We simply have to define that what is returned is the BUSY-UNAVALIABLE time.

What is returned for a company car calendar may have hard coded
that 1/2 a day after a multi day usage the car is always
unavailable (perhaps for inspection, service, or whatever).

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