1. A Partnership

   • Between Calendaring & Scheduling Vendors and Customers

2. Mission

   • To provide a general understanding of, promote, and provide mechanisms so that Calendaring and Scheduling methodologies, tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing

3. Not a standards development organization

   • Promotes development and adoption of standards

   • Influence SDOs and vendors

A focused environment to

• Re-energize Calendaring and Scheduling

• Provide a forum to discuss the direction for standards and implementations

• Validate the existing standards

• Provide interoperability testing

• Drive requirements for changes to existing standards, new and complementary standards back into IETF, other bodies

• Promote standards and technologies to the vendor and user communities

• Promote Calendaring & Scheduling

• Help drive the evolution of open standards for Calendaring & Scheduling (iCalendar, iMIP, iTIP, CalDAV)

• Conduct interoperability testing

• Collegial partnership between all members to achieve Consortium mission and goals

• Develop a shared vision for the Calendaring & Scheduling community

1. Promote Calendaring & Scheduling

   • Press releases

   • Media publications

   • Trade shows

   • Op ed pieces, articles and white papers

   • Trade shows and speaking opportunities

   • Regular Roundtables for members

2. Interoperability testing and certification

   • Periodic interoperability testing events

   • Promotional events and publicity to announce successful completion of testing

   • Analyze results and report findings to IETF or other relevant standards bodies on correctness and completeness of standards

   • Develop and implement independent test suites for interoperability conformance tests

   • Potential to eventually certify applications for interoperability and conformance to Calendaring & Scheduling standards

3. Promote design and deployment of standards and implementations

   • Feedback on existing standards on correctness and completeness

   • Requirements assessment and development for extensions to existing standards or new, complementary standards

   • Study and report needs of user community at large for standards and products

4. Promote collaboration among members

   • Promote inter-member collaboration to improve interoperability

   • Promote inter-member collaboration on instruction and training

   • Support inter-member efforts to define new areas for Calendaring and Scheduling

5. Support common goals of members

   • Member forum to establish and promote common goals for Calendaring and Scheduling products

   • Establish common messages of member community as basis for promotional materials and publicity on Calendaring and Scheduling

   • Possible annual conference

6. Develop a shared vision for the Calendaring and Scheduling community

   • Seek broad representation from vendors, academia, customers and the open source community

   • Sponsor roundtable discussions, online forums

1. Interops (Interoperability Testing)

   • Participation open to members and non-members (significant discount for members)

   • Two day event usually co-located with Roundtable

   • Results published to relevant standards org

   • Public version on Consortium website

2. Roundtables

   • “All hands” plenary meeting of membership

   • Three per year midway between IETF meetings

     • help to drive each other

   • Held in conjunction with Interops

   • Technical committee working meetings

   • Steering Committee meeting

   • Review and status of technical committees

   • Consensus on direction, next steps of Consortium

3. Workshops

   • First workshop tentatively planed for 1Q2006

   • Public workshop or invitational depending on goal & topic

   • Open to non-Consortium members

   • Could be co-hosted with Roundtable or independent event

4. Annual Conference

   • Need is still under evaluation

   • Would offer technology and product overviews, tutorials and classes, demonstrations and vendor offerings

   • Public conference with member discounts

   • Could be co-hosted or co-located with another organization or outsourced to a providing organization

1. Membership

   • Initially, Founding Members of the Consortium

   • Will expand to include at least one of each membership category

2. Operations

   • Monthly teleconference

   • Meetings at Roundtables or other activities if needed Governance

   • Chair chosen by Steering Committee members

   • Chair participates in Board of Directors meetings

3. Activities

   • Overall technical direction

   • Management of Technical Committees

   • Consortium program elements

   • Advice to the Board of Directors

1. Membership

   • Individual TC members provided by Member Organizations

2. Operations

   • Determined by TC Chair and TC membership

   • TC Chair provides regular status to Steering Committee

3. Governance

   • Any Consortium member may propose new work

   • Charter, scope and deliverables identified in the proposal

   • Chair confirmed by SC

   • Committee terminates when chartered work is complete

4. Operational policies

   • In-progress work confidential to Consortium members only

   • Completed work published and freely available on Consortium web site

   • No proprietary information discussed

1. Consortium policy

   • Members will not introduce or share proprietary or encumbered information in the course of participating in consortium activities

2. Resolution of ambiguous situations

   • Reasonable compliance with IETF policy on IPR

     • “Section 10” of IETF RFC2026, Internet Standards Process

1. Eligibility

   • Any company, institution or individual who

     • supports the goals of the Consortium

     • agrees to abide by its rules

     • submits the proper membership application

     • pays the appropriate membership fee

2. Fees

   • Published on the Consortium web site

   • Based on membership category

   • Due annually upon anniversary of joining the Consortium

3. Categories

   • Commercial Vendor

     • >$100 million annual revenue

     • $10-100 million annual revenue

     • >$10 million annual revenue

   • Customer Organizations/Companies

   • Non-Profit Organizations

   • Open Source Organizations

   • Academic Institutions

   • Standards Setting Organizations

   • Individuals

4. Benefits

   • Voice in achieving Consortium objectives

     • Propose new work

     • Engage in one or more Technical Committees

     • Influence direction of TCs and Steering Committee

     • Participate in technical governance

   • Recognition and publicity

     • Listing on Consortium web site

     • Opportunity for recognition in Consortium PR initiatives

   • Reduced rate for Interop events

   • Opportunity to host Roundtable or Interop events

   • Help create true interoperable Calendaring & Scheduling

1. Website:

2. Contact us:

3. Attend the next Roundtable as an observer: January 10-12, Provo, Utah

4. For more information:

   Dave Thewlis, Executive Director
   The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
   4390 Chaffin Lane
   McKinleyville, CA 95519-8028
   Voice: +1 707 840 9391
   FAX: +1 415 946 3454
   Mobile: +1 707 498 2238
   Email: