[Ietf-calsify] summary of issues discussed in the jabber session

[Mike Douglass]

I absolutely agree.

The arguments for removal of these options seem to be based on nobody 
using them - however there don't seem to be many places where they are 
made available. This holds true for some of the other simplification 
suggestions.

That is, until applications make these options available we cannot tell 
how much they would be used.

Removal of these options just guarantees icalendar data will never be 
used in certain areas

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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> Am Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2006 14:52 schrieb Eliot Lear:
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>> 55             Remove SECONDLY, MINUTELY,        Nuke BYSEC and SECONDLY.
>>                BYSEC and BYMIN                   Also nuke MINUTELY.  This
>>                                                  leaves open the question
>>                                                  of BYMINUTE.
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>
> ARGH!!! Why would you do that?
> In my eyes, these frequencies and these BY* rule parts are the most 
> uncontroversial of all rule parts. The other rule parts create the problems 
> for us.
>
> In KDE we have a dedicated alarm application (not for event reminders, but for 
> all sorts of things that you want to be reminded of) that makes available all 
> alarms as events to applications that use iCalendar format.
>
> You can't imagine how useful that stuff is. E.g. Set a quick alarm to remove 
> the cake or the pizza from the oven in 15 Minutes. That alarm will 
> automatically appear in your calendaring app (that watches the iCalendar 
> file).
>
> Or set an alarm that reminds you every 1.5 hours (=90 minutes) to take a break 
> from the computer. I also like these alarms to show up in my calendar (which 
> is a completely different application, so we need to have a format for data 
> exchange, which is exactly iCalendar). 
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
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Mike Douglass                           douglm at rpi.edu
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