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CC/A 1204:2012
Report on Roundtable XXV, October 3-5, 2012
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Foreword

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (“CalConnect”) is a global non-profit organization with the aim to facilitate interoperability of technologies across user-centric systems and applications.

CalConnect works closely with liaison partners including international organizations such as ISO, OASIS and M3AAWG.

The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance are described in the CalConnect Directives.

In particular the different approval criteria needed for the different types of ISO documents should be noted. This document was drafted in accordance with the editorial rules of the CalConnect Directives.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CalConnect shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Details of any patent rights identified during the development of the document will be in the Introduction and/or on the CalConnect list of patent declarations received (see www.calconnect.com/patents).

Any trade name used in this document is information given for the convenience of users and does not constitute an endorsement.

This document was prepared by Technical Committee CALCONNECT.


Introduction

Roundtable XXV took place on October 3-5, 2012, hosted by Google in Zürich, Switzerland. The event was attended by 26 people from 11 members and 5 non-members. The CalConnect Interoperability Test Event was held immediately prior to the Roundtable on October 1-3. Twenty-two people from 10 members and 2 non-members were present onsite, and four members participated remotely.

The Roundtable was dedicated to technical committee sessions, and informal discussions and networking, with an all-hands Plenary meeting as the last item on Friday afternoon. The Technical Committee sessions were as usual organized sequentially, without competing parallel sessions, as is our standard practice to allow all attendees who wished to be involved in the discussions of each Technical Committee the opportunity to do so.

Report on Roundtable XXV, October 3-5, 2012

1.  Special Events

The Roundtable was structured with all regular TC sessions occurring in the afternoon to facilitate remote participation (in particular from North America) for the TC sessions. Thursday and Friday mornings were used for special symposia and BOFs:

  • Improving the web calendaring experience for end users

  • Calendaring futures and CalConnect directions

  • Internationalization/Localization for calendaring data

  • Best practices for publishing iCalendar data to ensure optimum interoperability

  • BOF on VTODOs

  • BOF on Consensus Scheduling

Following the BOF on VTODOs, a VTODO Ad Hoc Committee was formed to examine requirements and ongooing work on VTODOs and recommend future activity in this area to CalConnect. The Ad Hoc committee will report out at Roundtable XXVI.

The host session was presented by Fabian Schlup of Google and focused on various aspects of Google Calendar including internal and external APIs.

2.  Documents since Last Roundtable

2.1.  Public Review Documents

  • CalWS-SOAP SOAP Web Services Protocol for Calendaring

2.2.  Updated IETF Drafts and Proposed Standards (published RFCs) related to CalConnect (includes updates to published CalConnect documents)

NOTE  The majority of specification work in CalConnect is necessarily focused on work to become internet draft submissions to the IETF and ultimpately be progressed to become RFCs (Proposed Standards), rather than be directly published by CalConnect itself.

CalConnect has replaced the internal Interoperability Test Event Report with an internal wiki and etherpads, and the public Interoperability Test Report with a section on the Test Event in the CalConnect Minutes newsletter publised after each event.

3.  Update on Technical Committee Work and Initiatives

Roundtable session summaries and activities and a report on the Interoperability Test Event are published after each CalConnect event as part of the CalConnect Minutes newsletter, to be published shortly. Issues of the newsletter may be found at CalConnect Minutes.

4.  Future Events

  • CalConnect XXVI: January 28 — February 1, 2013, Oracle, San Francisco Bay Area, California

  • CalConnect XXVII: June 3-7, 2013, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

  • CalConnect XVIII: Autumn, 2013 (late September/early October), TBD

The general format of the CalConnect week is:

  • Monday morning through Wednesday noon, CalConnect Interoperability Test Event

  • Wednesday noon through Friday afternoon, CalConnect Roundtable (presentations, TC sessions, BOFs, networking, Plenary)

This format has been altered for the two (so far) European CalConnect events to move all TC sessions to the afternoon and offer symposia and BOFs during Thursday and Friday mornings.