[JDEV] iCalendar project?

[Sandpiper]

I agree, the speed (or lack there of) of the iCal project over the last 
several years has certainly been frustrating, though I've high hope for
CAP.

How would you use jabber and iCal together?  The most obvious way would be
as a transport layer, i.e. create a jabber implementation of iTip. This
would be relatively simple once you had an iCal parser, and an agreed upon
method of representing iCal in XML.  And there is the rub.  vCard has an
XML DTD, and while it has been suggested that iCal move to XML this
suggestion has been met with strong resistance.

Similarly, the problem of providing access to a calendar store via jabber
would not be all that difficult(ala CAP) but this still leaves you with
the bulk of work to be done implementing the CS and CUA.

Not to be discouraging, I just don't think the communication layer is the
hard part with scheduling.(or I could simply be being too short-sighted)

Kellan

ps. Steeve, Have you checked out iPlanet(nee Netscape)'s Calendar Server?
I haven't looked at it yet, but its supposed to be free, and standards
compliant.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Steeve wrote:

> 
> I read something somewhere about a vCard namespace
> for jabber.  Has anyone talked about implementing
> an iCalendar project?
> 
> Network calendaring seems to be very proprietary
> at the moment and the iCalendar protocol is being
> implemented at the speed of night, or so it seems.
> 
> I've tried several times over the past couple of
> years to find some kind of network calendar server
> and client that will allow the users in the department
> some kind of network based calendaring.  But the
> only solutions I've found are expensive and mostly
> NT based.  I've been following Jabber development,
> as a background process, for a while now and was
> thinking that this might be a really kewl way
> to get network schedules implemented.  Any thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> steeve SysAdmin EPS McGill University Mtl Qc
> :wq
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