[Cosmo-dev] ics UUID summary and preview proposal

Randy Letness randy at osafoundation.org
Thu Jul 19 10:38:12 PDT 2007


Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
>> I think we have a bigger problem and that is if users of 
>> cosmo/chandler export a calendar to .ics and distribute, they may 
>> unknowingly distribute the uuid (because icaluid and uuid are the 
>> same for items created in cosmo/chandler), which for cosmo 0.7 can 
>> give you access to that item.
>
> Ah, so we've handled import, but not export.
>
> If we had the access control situation down, would we consider it 
> incorrect behavior to use the uuid as the source of the icalUID?
>

Correct, once we have the access control situation down then this isn't 
a problem.  Although I still like the idea of having a "public" icaluid 
and a "private" repository uuid.

-Randy


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