[Ietf-calsify] Re: [Ietf-caldav] How to derive FREEBUSY; FBTYPE from a VEVENT?

[Doug Royer]

Cyrus Daboo wrote:

> 
> I don't think either of these should ever be 'derived' from a VEVENT. 
> Rather, if a user wants to specify those, they directly create a 
> VFREEBUSY object in their calendar and use that.

I agree. An event could exist that if happens, I NEED to be there,
so I would mark MY time as BUSY. And have it in my calendar.

Other events could be likely to occur, yet I am not sure I will attend
and I would NOT mark MY time as BUSY. And have it in my calendar.

While both of the above VEVENTs from the ORGANIZER could have the TRANSP
property set to OPAQUE - meaning that it consumes time when booked
by the ATTENDEE.  So the ORGANIZER in both cases is saying this is
an OPAQUE VEVENT, if you decide to that you will be using that time
for that reason.

I can have the Dallas Cowboys football team on my calendar. Each game
could have a TRANSP:OPAQUE property because that is what I imported
from their web page ICS file.. Yet I will not be attending. I may
wish to just watch it on TV if I am not otherwise busy. So I would
mark that time as FREE and still have it on my calendar. I also may
have the super bowl game marked as BUSY even when I will not be
attending.

I do not think that you can have a table that says if TRANSP is OPAQUE
then the time MUST BE BUSY, even if on my calendar.

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