SPECIAL-USE (was: Re: Cyrus CalDAV design decision)

[Georg C. F. Greve]

On Thursday 08 September 2011 10.19:53 Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> - A Cyrus IMAP CalDAV folder containing iCalendar data could have
> SPECIAL-USE  attributes: 
>   \Calendar \iCal [\Default] 
>   \iCal could be the defined default for a folder marked with SPECIAL-USE 
> attribute \Calendar. 
> - A Kolab Groupware calendar folder could have SPECIAL-USE attributes: 
>   \Calendar \KolabXML [\Default]

Indeed, although I still see the bigger issue with the /shared/ and /private/ 
namespaces. You'd definitely want \Calendar \iCal \KolabXML to live in the 
/shared/ namespace, but \Default for instance should live in the /private/ 
namespace, preferably.

Right now the RFC only mentions the /private/ namespace, though, and so I 
suspect that is what servers implement. Also it lacks rules for conflict 
resolution between /shared/ and /private/ shared-use annotations, e.g. what if 
the /shared/ annotation has \Archive set and the /private/ annotation \Trash?

We'd probably need to define which of the values are conflicting, which are not, 
and then define which shared-use value survives on conflict. My guess is that 
/private/ should override /shared/ but there may be more to it than that.

Any input?

Best regards,
Georg


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