[ietf-calsify] Protocol Action: 'Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)' to Proposed Standard

[Eliot Lear]

Dear all,

I'd like to congratulate the working group and Bernard Desruisseaux in 
particular on this event.

Warmest regards,

Eliot

On 4/28/09 6:20 PM, The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has approved the following document:
>
> - 'Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
>     (iCalendar) '
>     <draft-ietf-calsify-rfc2445bis-10.txt>  as a Proposed Standard
>
> This document is the product of the Calendaring and Scheduling Standards
> Simplification Working Group.
>
> The IESG contact persons are Lisa Dusseault and Alexey Melnikov.
>
> A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-calsify-rfc2445bis-10.txt
>
> Technical Summary
>
> This document defines the iCalendar data format for representing and
> exchanging calendaring and scheduling information such as events,
> to-dos, journal entries and free/busy information, independent of any
> particular calendar service or protocol.
>
> Working Group Summary
>
> The working group proceeded with the work in an orderly fashion, opening
> tickets for all the found issues in the original RFC2445, and then
> systematically closing them until no known issues remained.
>
> Document Quality
>
> There are a number of existing implementations of the original RFC2445
> specification that are likely to upgrade their implementation to the new
> specification.
>
> During the process of developing this document, the CalConnect.org
> industry consortium provided various types of vendor feedback and errata
> over the original specification.
>
> The working group took special care to take into account this feedback
> as well as the feedback received from a number of other contributors,
> some of which are also mentioned in the document's Acknowledgements
> section.
>
> Personnel
>
> Document Shepherd: Aki Niemi<aki.niemi at nokia.com>
>
> Responsible AD: Lisa Dusseault<lisa at osafoundation.org>
>
> The IANA Expert(s) for the registries in this document are Cyrus Daboo
> and Bernard Desruisseaux.
>
>
> Note to RFC Editor
>
> Please ensure that the ABNF is valid, including semi-colons or explicit
> spaces in empty lines within rules.
>
> OLD in section 3.2.19:
>
>        The parameter MUST be specified on properties with a DATE-TIME
>        value if the DATE-TIME is not either a UTC or a "floating" time.
>
> NEW:
>
>        The parameter MUST be specified on properties with a DATE-TIME
>        value if the DATE-TIME is not either a UTC or a "floating" time.
>    Failure to include and follow VTIMEZONE definitions in iCalendar
>    objects may lead to inconsistent understanding of the local time at any
>    given location.
>
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