[JDEV] iCalendar project?

[Patrick Chanezon]

At first I have to say that I don't speak on behalf of Netscape, but in my
personal name.
I've followed the jabber mailing list since one month, because I'm interested
in the project (but as many of you have little time to devote to it).
2 years ago I played a lot with the previous version of Netscape Calendar
Server (3.0 I think) and got interested in the emerging standards.
It seems that the standards are much more mature now.

Sandpiper wrote:

> 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)
>

I agree with that.

>
> 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.
>

Some urls for it:
documentation at http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/calendar.html
I don't think it is free (not sure about that), but you can download a test
drive at
http://www.iplanet.com/downloads/download/index.html

I think it's standards compliant but I haven't played with it yet.

P@

>
> 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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