[Ietf-calsify] Re: What's wrong with more radical simplification?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Samstag, 12. Februar 2005 00:23 schrieb Doug Royer:
> Michiel van Leeuwen wrote:
> > ... I'm thinking about the way sunbird handles
> > sharing a calendar here. You don't want to lose the recurrence
> > information the next time you open the file.
>
> People and applications use ICS files as their cal store,
> however iCalendar was not designed as a file store. Trying to
> make it do both is part of the problem. You end up with
> everything everyone needs.

You already need everything everyone needs for simple data exchange like 
drag'n'drop!  And iCalendar was designed for exactly these kinds of thing (at 
least that's how I understand the intro).

Reinhold

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