[Ietf-calsify] Question on VFREEBUSY

[Timi Soinio]

ext Lisa Dusseault wrote:

> These are good questions... my gut feel is that we certainly need 
> separate documents, perhaps more separate documents than we already 
> have. In practice, iCalendar is used for 3 separate purposes:
> - import and export -- where you don't worry about saving VFREEBUSY 
> information that duplicates event start/end times
> - invitation
> - CalDAV (or other access/sharing)

In addition to these three usage purposes, I would also consider 
synchronization (with e.g. OMA DS) as a fourth important purpose for 
using iCalendar. Technically, it resembles import and export cases but 
it can contain some iCal properties that normally are left out from 
simple import/export (PUBLISH?) cases, e.g. ATTENDEE information.

-Timi