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Guide to Internet Calendaring

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Network Working Group                                         B. Mahoney
Request for Comments: 3283                                           MIT
Category: Informational                                        G. Babics
                                                                 Steltor
                                                                A. Taler
                                                               June 2002


                     Guide to Internet Calendaring

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes the various Internet calendaring and
   scheduling standards and works in progress, and the relationships
   between them.  Its intent is to provide a context for these
   documents, assist in their understanding, and potentially aid in the
   design of standards-based calendaring and scheduling systems.  The
   standards addressed are RFC 2445 (iCalendar), RFC 2446 (iTIP), and
   RFC 2447 (iMIP).  The work in progress addressed is "Calendar Access
   Protocol" (CAP).  This document also describes issues and problems
   that are not solved by these protocols, and that could be targets for
   future work.

Table of Contents

   1.    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
   1.1   Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
   1.2   Concepts and Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.    Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.1   Fundamental Needs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.2   Protocol Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.    Solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   3.1   Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   3.2   Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   3.2.1 Standalone Single-user System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   3.2.2 Single-user Systems Communicating  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   3.2.3 Single-user with Multiple CUAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   3.2.4 Single-user with Multiple Calendars  . . . . . . . . . . . .  9



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