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SUMMARY:CalDAV to Proposed Standard
DESCRIPTION:I am very pleased to announce that an effort I've spent nearly three years on is becoming an IETF Proposed Standard. CalDAV will have its own RFC number shortly, and the approval announcement was just last week.   This started in November of 2003, when I was attending a meeting of the CalSched working group at the IETF. I was frustrated with the circles that the participants were going in, as they worked on calendar modeling problems mixed together with protocol modeling problems, and ranted about how much simpler this would be if the protocol modeling had really been abstracted away by building on something like WebDAV (which itself, really builds on HTTP's model). Larry Greenfield basically dared me to back this up, pointing out that the WG had no way to judge whether it would be simpler unless somebody wrote up a specific proposal. So I put my time where my mouth was, and published a sketchy -00 draft version of CalDAV. Nothing happened immediately, but in spring of 2004 a few things happened. OSAF hired me to work on calendar standards specifically, and Oracle flew me into Montreal to talk about IETF work, CalSch, the previous...
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