[Cosmo] search for calendars on cosmo?

[Brendan O'Connor]

>On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:10:45 -0700, Kervin L. Pierre
><kervin at adevsoft.com>  
>wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > How is Cosmo going to support searching for
> > user Calendars?  Or is it going to support
> > searching for user calendars at all?

random concern: there's also security and privacy issues with being able
to query a server whether a given username exists there, because then
you can build up a list of all users, find usernames to try to password
crack, etc



On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 15:31 -0700, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
> Hi Kervin,
> 
> We don't know yet.  Early versions of Cosmo/Chandler/Scooby will simply  
> accept a URL to navigate to or synch to some other user's calendar.  We've  
> discussed ways of finding users when you don't yet know the URL but we  
> haven't settled on specific answers yet.  Some things to think about  
> however:
>   - The WebDAV Principal namespace can have pointers to peoples calendars,  
> and it supports string-match searches.  So a client could do a ACL REPORT  
> to look for Lisa% and find the calendars for the set of users matching  
> that query -- that, I think, answers your last question.
>   - DASL might help you if you use it to search on calendar description  
> property
>   - An LDAP attribute with calendar URL would be useful for many  
> organizations
>   - users may be able to advertise their own stuff (not just their own  
> calendar, but potentially also their own blog, their own web site, their  
> own vcard or other stuff).  We've discussed how useful that would be and  
> there are so many ways to approach that it's hard to know where to start.   
> Imagine a service like del.icio.us as a user directory...
> 
> Lisa
> 
> On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:10:45 -0700, Kervin L. Pierre <kervin at adevsoft.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > How is Cosmo going to support searching for
> > user Calendars?  Or is it going to support
> > searching for user calendars at all?
> >
> > Is the mechanism ( if supported ) going to
> > be CalDAV?
> >
> > Will the client always have to know the
> > user's complete principle or calendar URI
> > to retrieve a calendar from Cosmo?
> >
> > If my client connects to Cosmo, how could
> > it say, "Find all the calendar URIs for
> > people who's names begin of the letter 'B'"?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kervin
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