[Cosmo-dev] Thoughts on sharing

[Brian Moseley]

On 7/11/06, Elliot Lee <osafoundation at intelliot.com> wrote:

> Well, this partial solution would allow you to share your calendar
> with people outside your company. If you stored your calendar on a
> calendar server accessible on the Internet, you could have "magic
> cookie" private feeds -- for each calendar, one URL for read-only
> access, and another for read-write.

this is essentially what cosmo does with tickets.

> Whoever has this long and virtually-impossible-to-guess private feed
> URL can read or read-write the calendar. The Google Calendar Data API
> uses a sharing scheme like this.

this is fine for google, which by definition is not a highly trusted
service, but it certainly wouldn't be sufficient for corporate usage.