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Report on Roundtable III
1-3 June 2005
The second formal event of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium took place on 1-3 June, 2005, hosted
by Duke University Durham, North Carolina. The event was attended by representatives of
seventeen Consortium members. The Roundtable event consisted of two days of Technical Committee meetings,
and an all-hands plenary meeting of the membership and attendees. The first
two days, a CalConnect Interoperability Eventt was held in parallel with the
Technical Committee meetings. The Technical Committee sessions were organized
sequentially, to allow all attendees who wished to be involved in the discussions
of a Technical Committee the opportunity to do so, and there was definitely "drift"
between TC sessions and those participating in the CalConnect Interoperability Event.
UPDATE ON INITIATIVES
Glossary Project: The Calendaring Glossary should be ready for initial
publication on the Consortium website within the next few weeks; it is currently
in Last Call within the Consortium.
Recurrence Questionnaire: The results of the Recurrence Questionnaire conducted by TC-RECURR on the internet
will be posted publicly to the Consortium website as soon as the results document completes Final Call within
the Consortium.
TC-REALTIME has been on hold pending the completion of other work, and
will begin its work in mid to late June.
TC-MIN-IOP was disbanded and folded into TC-IOPTEST.
External Communications: The Consortium will be announcing an RSS feed
for Calendaring issues and announcements in the next several weeks.
New initiatives: The Consortium is considering initiating work in three new areas, if there is
sufficient interest among existing and new members and if resources are available
to work in these areas:
- Calendar user address discovery and calendar server discovery
- Cross domain security and access control
- Todos for project management
CALCONNECT INTEROPERABILITY EVENT
Participants in the CalConnect Interoperability Event included Isamet, Mozilla, Novell, Oracle, and
Rensselaer Politechnic Institute. The CalConnect Interoperability Event was focused on CalDAV testing and
tested three CalDAV servers and four clients with very positive results. The
results of the CalConnect Interoperability Event should be available soon and will be posted on the
Consortium website and delivered to the IETF.
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
All Calconnect Technical Committees met during the course of the Roundtable to
review their status and work to date with the entire set of attendees and to
progress their work with the large input from the Roundtable. Of particular
note:
TC-CALDAV has made its CalDAV test script available on the Consortium
website (under "Resources").
TC-CALSIFY has been re-chartered more explicitly as a coordination effort
between Consortium Technical Committees and the incipient IETF CALISFY working
group. The intent is to feed information to the working group as rapidly as
possible and ensure that TC work being done for consumption by the working
group meets the needs of the WG.
TC-EVENTPUB is developing a survey on Event Publication, which will be distributed
as widely as possible, and may require some level of publicity to draw attention
to it.
TC-IOPTEST has taken on the tasks associate with the former TC-MIN-IOP to
determine the "minimum interoperability subset" for iCalendar. This is in
addition to TC-IOPTEST's charter to plan for, develop and formalize the
Consortium's CalConnect Interoperability Event testing.
TC-RECURR is planning a second questionnaire to delve more deeply into some
specific recurrence issues identified by the first questionnaire. The Committee
intends to have results and recommendations by the next Consortium Roundtable, and
make them available to the IETF CALSIFY working group before the November IETF
meeting.
TC-TIMEZONE is conducting a questionnaire on Timezone implementations as part
FUTURE MEETINGS
The next meeting (Roundtable IV) will take place 13-15 September in San Francisco,
hosted by the Open Source Applications Foundation. The following meeting (Roundtable
V) will take place in mid-January in Provo, Utah, hosted by Novell, Inc.
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