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Guide to Internet Calendaring

RFC 3283             Guide to Internet Calendaring             June 2002


   3.2.5 Users Communicating on a Multi-user System . . . . . . . . . 10
   3.2.6 Users Communicating through Different Multi-user Systems . . 10
   4.    Important Aspects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   4.1   Timezones  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   4.2   Choice of Transport  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   4.3   Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   4.4   Amount of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   4.5   Recurring Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   5.    Open Issues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   5.1   Scheduling People, not Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   5.2   Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   5.3   Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   6.    Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   6.1   Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   6.2   Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   6.3   Using E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   6.4   Other Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
         Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
         References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
         Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
         Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1. Introduction

   Calendaring and scheduling protocols are intended to aid individuals
   in obtaining calendaring information and scheduling meetings across
   the Internet, to aid organizations in providing calendaring
   information on the Internet, and to provide for organizations looking
   for a calendaring and scheduling solution to deploy internally.

   It is the intent of this document to provide a context for these
   documents, assist in their understanding, and potentially help in the
   design of standards-based calendaring and scheduling systems.

   Problems not solved by these protocols, as well as security issues to
   be kept in mind, are discussed at the end of the document.

1.1 Terminology

   This memo uses much of the same terminology as iCalendar [RFC-2445],
   iTIP [RFC-2446], iMIP [RFC-2447], and [CAP].  The following
   definitions are provided as an introduction; the definitions in the
   protocol specifications themselves should be considered canonical.








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