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Report on Roundtable IV
13-15 September 2005
Roundtable IV took place on
13-15 September, 2005, hosted by the Open Souce Applications Foundation in San
Francisco, California. The event was attended by 43 representatives from seventeen
Consortium members and four observers. 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 Event 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.
UPDATE ON INITIATIVES
Published documents: The Consortium has published the Results of the
Recurrence Questionnaire, the Results of the Timezone Questionnaire, and the
CalDAV Use Cases document. The Min-IOP Use Cases Document, Timezone Recommendations,
Timezone Registry/Resource Recommendations, Calendaring Glossary and others are
in preparation.
TC-CALSIFY was disbanded as its function was duplicated by the TC-CHAIRS
coordination committee.
TC-REALTIME will be rechartered and will act as a research TC to look at
a variety of server-server issues and determine whether specific work needs to be
undertaken in the area.
TC-AUTHENTICATE (calendaring authentication and
authorization) and TC-MOBILE (calendaring on mobile devices) were chartered at
this Roundtable.
External Communications: The Consortium will be announcing an RSS feed
for Calendaring issues and announcements in the next several weeks.
CALCONNECT INTEROPERABILITY EVENT
Participants in the CalConnect Interoperability Event included EVDB, IBM, Isamet, Mozilla, Novell, Oracle,
OSAF, RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Sun Microsystems.
Results from the CalConnect Interoperability Event
are posted at Past CalConnect Interoperability Event Reports.
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-EVENTPUB will complete its survey at the end of September. TC members are
investigating ways to extend iCalendar function in the area of location and are
looking at alternatives including vCard.
TC-IOPTEST is accumulating a set of specific iCalendar and related test scripts
with the plan to develop them, in addition to other purpose-developed material, into
a test suite.
TC-RECURR intends to have results and recommendations by the next Consortium Roundtable, and
make them available to the IETF CALSIFY working group at the November IETF
meeting.
TC-TIMEZONE has completed its questionnaire on Timezone implementations and
is developing a recommendations document on the results of the questionnaire, and
another document on the subject of a Timezone Registry and a Timezone Resource.
FUTURE MEETINGS
The next meeting (Roundtable V) will take place 09-12 January, 2006, hosted by
Novell in Provo, Utah. Starting with this meeting, the CalConnect Interoperability Event will be conducted
prior to the beginning of the Roundtable. Specifically the IOP event will begin on on
Monday the 9th, and continue on Tuesday morning the 10th, followed by the Roundtable
from Tuesday afternoon through Thursday afternoon. (Participants found that
trying to do both the CalConnect Interoperability Event and the Roundtable TC sessions in parallel weren't working
very well.) The following meeting (Roundtable VI) will be held in mid-May; a
host has not yet been established.
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