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Report on Roundtable V
09-12 January 2006
Roundtable V took place on January 9-12, 2006, hosted by Novell in Provo, Utah.
Monday January 9th and Tuesday morning the 10th were a dedicated CalConnect
Interoperability Event where seven organizations performed interoperability testing
on their calendaring and scheduling implementations. The Roundtable itself
convened midday on Tuesday the 10th and closed midday on Thursday the 12th.
As usual, most of the time was dedicated to technical committee sessions, with
an all-hands Plenary meeting at the end. 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. Delegates were also present
from The Open Group Messaging Forum to discuss a possible joint endeavor with
respect to a Federated Freebusy Challenge which the TOG/MF has issued.
UPDATE ON TECHNICAL COMMITTEES AND INITIATIVES
Work Products: The iCalendar Timezone Problems and Recommendations
document and an update to the Min-IOP Use Cases document were approved for
publication and have been published on the Consortium web site. The Timezone
Registry/Resource Recommendations document, Calendaring Glossary, and Recurrence
Problems and Recommendations document, among others, are in progress; the Recurrence
document is intended to be published in time to be delivered to the CALSIFY Working
Group of the IETF in March.
TC-AUTHENTICATE is undertaking a study of authentication schemes
used by existing calendaring and scheduling implementations (many proprietary)
in preparation for recommendations for short-term and longer-term authentication
methods for calendaring. The study will be published when complete.
TC-CALDAV is beginning work on use cases and requirements for CalDAV
Scheduling as input to the development of the scheduling draft for CalDAV.
The TC is also considering requirements for a specialized Freebusy Service component
for CalDAV which might address the TOG/MF requirement mentioned above.
TC-EVENTPUB has conducted a survey on existing event publication systems,
and is working on requirements for expanded location information in iCalendar
to support the needs for event publication.
TC-MOBILE is conducting a survey of calendaring with mobile devices and
has begun the development of a problem statement to define the requirements
for open, interoperable calendaring with mobile devices. The TC hopes to liaise with the OMA
in April and invite their participation in the May Roundtable to assist in
developing the requirements for calendaring and scheduling standards to support
mobile devices.
TC-REALTIME is beginning the refinement of use cases associated with
"real time" server-to-server communcation.
TC-RECURR is in the process of refining its Problems and Recommendations
document to be delivered to the IETF Calsify Working Group in time for their
March meeting.
TC-TIMEZONE has completed its Problems and Recommendations document
for publication and is working on a Timezone Registry and Service recommendations
document.
TC-USECASE has completed its Min-IOP Use Cases document for publication
and is working on the Calendaring Glossary document.
CalConnect Interoperability Event: Participants in the interoperability
testing event included EVDB, Mozilla, Novell, Oracle, OSAF, RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
and Trumba. Results from the event will be posted at
Past IOP Reports.
FUTURE MEETINGS
The next meeting (Roundtable VI) will take place 22-25 May 2006, hosted by
IBM/Lotus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Based on the successful model for
Roundtable V, where the CalConnect Interoperability Event was conducted the first
1.5 days, followed by the Roundtable, this model will be continued at Roundtable VI.
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