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CalConnect XXXIX took place on June 12-16, 2017, hosted by Tandem in Seattle, Washington. The CalConnect Test Event (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning) and Conference (Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday) were held at Tandem’s headquarters at Galvanize in Seattle.
The CalConnect Conference was attended by 16 people from 9 members plus a representative from the IETF. The Test Event/Developers Forum had 8 participants from 5 members and was largely devoted to the forum rather than specific testing.
The Conference focussed on strategic and possible work items in addition to ongoing work, and finished with the CalConnect Plenary Session on Friday afternoon. The Conference agenda with notes on the discussion topics may be found at CalConnect XXXIX Conference Schedule.
Much of the ongoing work in CalConnect is focused on specifications to become internet draft submissions to the IEETF and ultimately be progressed to publication as RFCs (Proposed Standards), rather than directly published by CalConnect itself.
Specifications in progress and not yet published are generally resident on GitHub either in our public or private areas.
Report on CalConnect Conference XXXVIII in Irvine, California
Report on Interoperability Test Event XXXVIII in Irvine, California
RFC 8144 Use of the Prefer Header Field in Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
Use of the Prefer Header Field in Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
CalDAV Managed Attachments (TC CALENDAR)
Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar (TC CALENDAR)
Improved Support for iCalendar Relationships (TC CALENDAR
Push Discovery and Notification Dispatch Protocol (TC CALENDAR)
Robert Stepanek is the new Chair of TC API. Work on iCalendar is complete; work on Tasks has begun. Holding on contacts for TC VCARD to move forward.
Draft update in progress
VPATCH and VINSTANCE are mature enough to begin implementation and testing. Work continues on the VALARM Extensions draft.
New content includes bootstrapping, vCard information. Improved content: link section dates and times information. Looking for assistance to edit selected Wikipedia entries related to CalConnect.
See separate report on Test Event at CalConnect XXXIX.
Draft has been submitted to the IETF.
Calendar Subscription Upgrades decided on a new status (not cancelled) and adding time range query.
Brief report on the status of the work.
Several presentations on status in TC VCARD and progress at the ISO/TC 211 meeting in Stockholm earlier this month. TC 211/WG 7 has accepted a proposal from CalConnect TC VCARD to submit a New Work Item Proposal on a machine-readable address profile data format.
Building a CalConnect version of iCal4J merging 1&1 and SCG implementations. Ultimate goal is to merge it with the original version from Ben Fortuna when new standards supported by this version have been published.
Feedback from M3WAAG Thursday. Discussion about subscription/content providers also being affected. Also discussed whether it is possible or desirable to establish a liaison with M3WAAG.
TC API: Create initial version of draft for standard, follow up on tasks
TC CALENDAR: Convert Managed Attachments to informational RFC, reshape VALARM extensions, finish calendar Relations, look at Task Extensions, continue VPATCH work
TC DEVGUIDE: Feedback button, new content, wikipedia updates
TC PUSH: Finish up Push specification
TC SHARING: Subscription update draft will include time rate queries, use delete, header templating.
TC TESTER: Increase tests, decide how to maintain
Jorte’s offer to host CalConnect XLII (June, 2018) in Tokyo, Japan was approved.
1&1’s offer to host CalConnect XXLIII (September, 2018) in Karlsruhe, Germany was approved.
CalConnect XL- September 25-29, 2017, Open-Xchange, Cologne, Germany
CalConnect XLI — Winter, 2018 — TBD
CalConnect XLII — June 4-8, 2018 — Jorte, Tokyo, Japan
CalConnect XLIII — September, 2018 — 1&1, Karlsruhe, Germany
The general format of the CalConnect Week is:
Monday morning through Wednesday noon, Test Event and Developer’s Forum (testing, tech discussions)
Wednesday noon through Friday afternoon, Conference
Pictures courtesy of Thomas Schäfer, 1&1