[Ietf-calsify] Confusion

[Dave Thewlis]

Lisa, thank you for responding to this post.

I'd like to add that there is a fair amount of overlap between those 
involved in CalConnect and those involved in the calendaring WGs and 
activities in the IETF - both in the sense of individuals and of 
organizations. 

Calconnect was formed to help move calendaring forward into the 
"mainstream of computing".  We certainly do generate requirements, 
issues, use cases, etc. to assist the standards developers in how the 
standards evolve.  As Lisa said, we offer interoperability testing 
between implementations, and against the standards/specifications. And 
we have a goal to promote interoperable calendaring both in the IT 
community and to the technology-using world at large.

The membership is made up of vendors large and small, open source 
organizations, major academic institutions, etc., and CalConnect 
functions as a partnership between all of us to jointly work to further 
interoperable calendaring and scheduling.

Dave Thewlis
Executive Director

Lisa Dusseault wrote:

> Hello Linyi Tian,
>
> The CalConnect consortium is definitely working on very related 
> topics, and there is also overlap in discussions, but the work is done 
> together with the IETF, rather than in competition.   The CalConnect 
> consortium has no plans to develop standards as the IETF WGs do, but 
> instead to gather information about standards requirements, issues, 
> implementations and interoperability.  The interoperability testing 
> role is quite important because IETF WGs don't always manage to take 
> that work on for free yet it's quite important to IETF decisions.
>
> All the information we use to develop standards will be provided on 
> the open IETF mailing lists, which is why there will continue to be 
> topic overlap -- frequently we'll see issues discussed in CalConnect 
> re-raised on the IETF list, and vice versa.  But the standards 
> development work certainly doesn't depend on anyone's membership in 
> CalConnect.
>
> I hope this helps reduce confusion,
>
> Lisa
>
> On Nov 17, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Linyi Tian wrote:
>
>> Hi, All
>>
>>      I find the "the calendaring and scheduling consortium" which 
>> website is http://www.calconnect.org/. Since it address the same 
>> topic with our group, i am confused.
>>
>> Can anybody tell me that what is the relationship between it and our 
>> group?  Is there some overlap between two activities?
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Linyi Tian
>> Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Preston Stephenson" <PStephenson at gw.novell.com>
>> To: <ietf-calsify at osafoundation.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 7:00 PM
>> Subject: [Ietf-calsify] Clarification on section 6 iCalendar objects 
>> indraft-cstoner-rfc2445bis-00
>>
>>
>>> Can you give an example of what it means to have multiple iCalendar
>>> objects?
>>>
>>> Is section 4.4 Multiple Similar Components in
>>> draft-ietf-calsify-rfc2447bis-00.txt in
>>> compliance or not?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Preston
>>>
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