[Ietf-calsify] Issue 86: iTIP: DECPRECATE SEQUENCE

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Robert,

--On September 13, 2007 10:56:32 AM -0400 Robert Ransdell 
<Robert_Ransdell at notesdev.ibm.com> wrote:

> If a event has changed in such a way the chair needs to send a
> reschedule, all existing responses become invalid.

OK so you are implying that the SEQUENCE number is being used by the 
ORGANIZER to track responses to different revisions of an event.

>  The chair bumps
> his/her sequence number.  The reschedules are sent out with this new
> sequence number.  When the invitee accepts/declines that seqence number
> is put on the response.  The chair now know who/how each invitee has
> responded to the reschedule event.
>

Right - but isn't the organizer also required to change each attendee's 
RSVP to TRUE? Or are you saying that a change in sequence number always 
requires a reply (even if there is ultimately no change in PART-STAT on the 
attendee's side)?

-- 
Cyrus Daboo