[Design] Calendar ideas

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Wayne Pierce wrote:

> For connectivity just make sure you can roll back any transactions that
> do not complete.  Perhaps a basic XML-RPC server or something similar
> over Jabber to allow for remote entry of data.

You can do RPC over Jabber. The spec is here:

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0009.html

> To determine who the person is, or authentication, why not use GPG
> signatures?  For the encrypted traffice between hosts you are going to
> need some type of key, might as well generate a GPG keypair.  Then you
> can use the same keypair to digitally sign and encrypt emails.

We do GPG in Jabber, too, although we're looking at more robust encryption
technologies such as XES. An informational GPG spec for Jabber is here:

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0027.html

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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