[Dev] GroupDAV

[Lisa Dusseault]

Yes, I took a look at GroupDAV when Helge joined the CalDAV development 
list.  GroupDAV is a really nice project and I respect their goal of 
"as simple as possible".  With CalDAV, we're making some different 
choices from what GroupDAV participants have preferred.  For example, 
CalDAV supports enterprise use cases and lists a lot of server-required 
features to ensure that any feature that a good number of clients need 
will be supported by all servers.

[Side point:  simplicity is in the eye of the beholder.  For a server 
implementor, simplicity lies in not having to implement many features.  
For a client, however. simplicity lies in having every server support 
each feature that's needed to solve the user's problem -- thus, more 
server features, not less.  I'm not entirely sure which version of 
simplicity is Group DAV's goal.  Similarly, what's simple for a 
protocol specification is not necessary simple for implementors if 
there are undefined edge cases or features which require a lot of work 
due to the simplicity of the protocol.]

In the long run, since they're participating helpfully in the CalDAV 
development, and assuming CalDAV eventually goes to RFC, I have good 
hopes they'll be standards compliant.  It's really not far off from 
what they've proposed as an alternate "simpler" protocol.

Lisa

On Feb 24, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Chih-Chao Lam wrote:

> Via Slashdot, I found GroupDAV:
>
> http://www.groupdav.org/
>
> "GroupDAV is an effort to create a "down-to-the-earth" protocol to 
> connect OpenSource groupware clients with OpenSource groupware 
> servers."
>
> Does anyone know more about this? Looks like the author Helge Hess is 
> also active on the CalDAV mailing list.
>
> chao
>
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