[Ietf-caldav] Creating a calendar

[Elias Sinderson]

Lisa Dusseault wrote:

> I also like the idea of looking at the principal resource to find out 
> more information like where the user's calendar is homed, where the 
> user's other file sharing space can be found, etc.  CalDAV would only 
> have to define a property on the principal resource for this to work [...]

+1 - simple and elegant.

Cyrus Daboo wrote:

> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>
>> When a user logs in, the ACL standard defines a REPORT to ask "who am 
>> I".
>> With that report the client gets the mapping from the user's login ID to
>> a principal URL.
>
> But that does not help locating calendars for resources that are not 
> associated with a principal e.g. public calendars, calendars for 
> meeting rooms etc One could argue that you could use DASL to find 
> those things, but I think having a NAMESPACE report would be better.

Presumably these resources could also be located via other means (links 
from a corporate intranet web site, group homepage, etc.). As long as a 
client provides a way for a user to enter in the location of a calendar 
the issue is somewhat moot. I do support the notion of automatic / 
programmatic location of calendar resources, however I don't believe 
that it necessarily entails the creation of a new report type.

You are completely correct in that DASL is general enough to support 
this use case - can you explain why you believe that the report approach 
is somehow better? IMHO, using DASL for calendar resource discovery 
makes perfect sense and wouldn't put an inordinate amount of load on a 
server, considering that the discovery process would only happen 
infrequently at worst and only a few times per user / client at best (on 
a given server).


Cheers,
Elias