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Re: proposed revised charter for IETF calsch WG


I am opposed to rechartering the calsch group. My preference would be to shut down the group entirely, and then start a new WG that is narrowly focused on revisions to RFCs 2445-7. I am particularly skeptical that work on CAP or any similar protocol based on those RFC's should be done in the same group that is in the middle of revising them. I think progress will be much faster if we divide and conquer, and that the (substantial) revisions that are necessary in the base RFC's justifies a new group of its own. -- Nathaniel

On Jul 30, 2004, at 2:29 PM, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:



Obviously the calsch WG has needed an updated charter for some time. The
chairs proposed a revision back in February (25 Feb 2004), about which
there was not much discussion.

The one substantive uncertain item on that proposed charter was the
inclusion of a work item to revise RFCs 2445, 2446, and 2447 (iCal, iTIP,
iMIP). No one has formally stepped up to do this, though the chairs have
heard that some people may be interested. In any case, at this point we
suggest that the best course is to complete CAP under the banner of this
WG, and to have the RFC 2445-7 revisions, if any, happen either as
individual work or in a new WG chartered for that purpose. So, the
proposed charter below is as small as it can be, including just the item
of completing CAP. This will be on the agenda for discussion at our
meeting in San Diego.

- RL "Bob"

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Calendaring and Scheduling (calsch)

Last Modified: 2004-07-30
Chair(s):
  Pat Egen <pregen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  RL Bob Morgan <rlmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applications Area Director(s):
  Ted Hardie <hardie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Scott Hollenbeck <sah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applications Area Advisor:
  Scott Hollenbeck <sah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mailing Lists:
  General Discussion: ietf-calendar@xxxxxxx
  To Subscribe: ietf-calendar-request@xxxxxxx
  In Body: SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE
  Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-calendar/mail-archive/

Description of Working Group:

The calsch WG develops standards to enable heterogeneous calendaring and
scheduling products and systems to interoperate. Completed
standards-track work includes a specification for calendar objects and an
associated MIME type (RFC 2445, iCalendar), a transport-independent
protocol for exchanging and operating on calendar objects (RFC 2446,
iTIP), a message-based transport for iTIP (RFC 2447, iMIP), and definition
and discovery of calendar URIs (RFC 2739). An informational document
(RFC 3283) provides an overview of the calendaring standards.

An additional standard protocol in the suite provides access to and
management of calendar objects in a real-time client-server fashion; this
is the "Calendar Access Protocol" (CAP). Submission of CAP as a Proposed
Standard is the remaining work item of the WG.

Goals and Milestones:

Sep 04	  	Submit Calendar Access Protocol document to IESG
                for consideration as a Proposed Standard.