[Design] Alpha4 goals from sharing spec

[Morgen Sagen]

I have some questions for the design and scooby teams about this spec:

    http://svn.osafoundation.org/docs/trunk/docs/specs/rel0_7/ 
Sharing-0.7.html

About the section on "(Re-)Storing a user's sharing world via  
Cosmo":  What do we need to do to support Scooby so that it can view  
calendars we have subscribed to (but not published)?  Say that I have  
subscribed my Chandler to a remote .ics URL (like .Mac or Google  
Calendar)?  Do I need my Chandler to turn around and upload that  
calendar to Cosmo (and keep it in sync) in order for Scooby to see it  
or is giving Scooby the calendar's remote .ics URL sufficient?  Also,  
I'm doing some handwaving when I use the term 'giving', because I  
don't know how to let Scooby know about such a URL.

Also, I was thinking it might be handy to have a "back up my personal  
settings" feature which can export some set of items such as accounts  
and shares to the local disk.  That way, you could 'restore your  
world' without having to re-enter even your Cosmo account info.

By the way, there is already a way today to create a personal parcel  
that contains whatever account items you want to have pre-defined  
when you launch Chandler from an empty repository.  See http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Projects/ParcelLoading