[Ietf-calsify] Section 4.8.3.1 Time Zone Identifier: Scope of TZID

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Bernard,

--On November 5, 2006 5:30:36 PM -0500 Bernard Desruisseaux 
<bernard.desruisseaux at oracle.com> wrote:

> In section 4.8.3.1 Time Zone Identifier of RFC 2445 it says:
>
>  > Purpose: This property specifies the text value that uniquely
>  > identifies the "VTIMEZONE" calendar component.
>
> This section should specify the "scope" in which a TZID MUST be
> unique when the "TZID" property value does not start with a
> SOLIDUS character.
>
> I believe the "TZID" MUST be unique in the scope of an iCalendar
> object, but not in the context of an iCalendar stream...

Right - inside of a BEGIN/END VCALENDAR, TZID must be unqiue, but it does 
not need to be unique across all BEGIN/END VCALENDAR's in a stream. I guess 
we need to add text for this now that we are using 'object' and 'stream' 
terminology.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo