AD review issue #4: Supporting both VTODO and VEVENT in thesame iCalendar stream (was: Re: [Ietf-calsify] Re: AD review on2445bis)

[Tim Hare]

I thought the very definiton of x-properties was that they were
'experimental' and as such not "properly" part of the specification which
needed to be handled by all conforming pieces of software.  I think that
they should be ignored, but not necessarily discarded - if a CUA creates an
iCalendar object with x- properties and asks a CS to store it, AND the CS
does not recognize those x-properties it should still, in opinion, store
them but take no action on them or because of them.


Tim Hare
Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.

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From: Reinhold Kainhofer [mailto:reinhold at kainhofer.com] 
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:48 PM
To: ietf-calsify at osafoundation.org
Cc: Lisa Dusseault; Tim Hare
Subject: Re: AD review issue #4: Supporting both VTODO and VEVENT in thesame
iCalendar stream (was: Re: [Ietf-calsify] Re: AD review on2445bis)

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Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2008 schrieb Lisa Dusseault:
> NEW:
>
>     An iCalendar object MUST include the "PRODID" and "VERSION" calendar
>     properties.  In addition, it MUST include at least one calendar
>     component.   Applications MUST ignore
>     x-comp and iana-comp they don't recognized.

Ignoring means that they can savely discard all X-properties, which is a bad
idea in my view.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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