[Design] caldav question

[hank williams]

> Cosmo started out as mainly a caldav server with the thought being that
> chandler would be using caldav as the synchronization protocol.  The
> problem is that caldav's synchronization process was a little
> inefficient as it involved sending a bunch of data even if there were no
> changes.  That, and chandler's data model involved more than just
> calendar events pushed us to come up with a new way of storing the data
> (as items with stamps and attributes) and a new protocol to access it
> (morse code).
>

Is morse code a standard that others support or is that a
proprietary-to-chandler protocol?

Also, is there some standards proposal document for it?


Thanks
Hank