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FREEBUSY Technical Committee


Charter

The FREEBUSY Technical Committee, originally charted to collaborate with The Open Group on their "Federated FREEBUSY Challenge", promotes calendaring and scheduling interoperability with respect to the sharing and exchange of FREEBUSY information by
  • Identifying and publishing use cases
  • Identifying opportunities to improve standards, both formal and informal
  • Following industry trends and developments
  • Liaising with organizations engaged in significant and relevant FREEBUSY projects
  • Informing the work of the, and be informed by the work of, CalDAV, REALTIME and other relevant TC's
  • Begin and End Dates

    Begin: 23 May 2006
    End: 2 February 2009

    Milestones and Work Products

    May-2006 Demonstration of rudimentary federated FREEBUSY queries
    Jul-2006 Demonstration of initial proof-of-concept implementation at The Open Group July Meeting using CalDAV FREEBUSY capabilities
    The Open Group Final Report
    Jan-2007 Test cases for IOPTEST; CalConnect Final Report
    Feb-2007 FREEBUSY URL discussions: simplify and standardize
    Sep-2007 FBURL technology preview at RT X
    Nov-2007 Meeting w/Danish Government to discuss FREEBUSY and their ekalender project
    Feb-2008 FBURL technology preview at RT XI
    TBD FB URL Proposal Draft
    TBD FB URL Proposal Published

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    Chair

    Gary Schwartz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:  

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