[Ietf-calsify] Question on VFREEBUSY

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi folks,
According to 2445 VFREEBUSY components are only supposed to be used in iTIP 
publish/request/reply methods. For some reason I was under the impression 
that I could use VFREEBUSY in a 'regular' calendar to indicate my own busy 
time without having to create a 'dummy' event to block out the time. What 
do other people think about the use of VFREEBUSY?

If its really the case that VFREEBUSY is only used by iTIP, then would it 
not make sense to move it to the iTIP bis document and drop it from 
2445bis? That would remove VFREEBUSY and the FREEBUSY property from 2445bis.

Another thing: the FREEBUSY property contains three 'busy' types: BUSY, 
BUSY-TENTATIVE and BUSY-UNAVAILABLE. The first two are fairly easy to 
understand - they are based on the STATUS of VEVENTs within the busy-time 
period request. However, I can't see how a calendar user is supposed to 
indicate BUSY-UNAVAILABLE in their own calendar so that busy-time requests 
will generate that. That is, unless VFREEBUSY components could be created 
in 'regular' calendars in which case BUSY-UNAVAILABLE could be set and 
returned.

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Cyrus Daboo