FOSDEM Report - Saturday

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On 2012-02-10 4:26, Greg Banks wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012, at 09:58 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>   > > >> Special-Use:
>   > >
>   > > Technically, it's been outlined what Kolab Systems is
>   seeking to do
>   > > here, and as it is not so much on the roadmap for other
>   parties
>   > > involved, we're therefore seeking ways to allow us to also
>   actually do
>   > > the work (instead of asking other parties to do the work
>   for us).
>   > >
>   > > I'm looking forward to it, as currently I may have seemed
>   to ill- /
>   > > ambiguously define what it is we're trying to do exactly.
>   >
>
>   What we're specifically looking for, paraphrasing a 30.000 ft
>   high-level birds view, is xCal and xCard stored in IMAP
>   folders that are also made available through CalDAV / CardDAV,
>
> Ok.
>
> where such folders are annotated through SPECIAL-USE,
>
> Sounds good.
>
> so that any IMAP client is automatically compatible.
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "compatible".
>
> If a client understood Content-Type: application/calendar+xml and
> did something useful with it, like display the calendar, or start
> up a separate calendar tool, then it's compatible.  If a client
> didn't understand that, a user opening that folder would see a
> bunch of XML gibberish, which is very nearly the moral equivalent
> of not showing anything at all, except more confusing.
>
> SPECIAL-USE already requires "ENABLE SPECIAL-USE" by the client,
>
> No it doesn't.  RFC6154 says no such thing.
>

Of course, you are right... I must have been seriously confused with 
something else. Well, some of the reasoning behind what I said would 
supposedly be possible to do were based on this assumption, actually.

I suppose we'll need to take this into account on whatever update to 
the RFC we come up with.

>
> (...snip...)
>

I've pointed Georg to your comments, they are much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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