The Calendaring folks are joining the HTTP wave.
Carl-Uno
--->To: IETF-Announce:; >From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org >Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org >Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-reddy-scap-00.txt >Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 07:13:57 PDT >Sender: cclark@CNRI.Reston.VA.US > >Note: This announcement is being re-sent with a new filename. > >A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. > > > Title : Web based Simple Calendar Access Protocol - SCAP > Author(s) : S. Reddy > Filename : draft-reddy-scap-00.txt > Pages : 45 > Date : 27-Apr-98 > > Distributed calendaring is gradually becoming more demanding than > standalone calendaring and scheduling. The use of calendaring and > scheduling has grown exponentially and enterprise and inter- > enterprise business has become so dependent on group scheudling > applications. But there is no Internet standard to provide > interoperability among various calendaring applications. > Consequently, user need to install different conduit programs to > access these calendaring stores. This memo proposes a HTTP based > simple calendaring access protocol which allows web, email and any > HTTP compliant clients to access and manipulate calendar store. > > The motivation for this proposal is the expanded scope and diversity > of the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web provides a simple and > effective means for users to search, browse, retrieve, and publish > information of their own available for others. Now that Web browsers > and servers are ubiquitous on the Internet, it is worthwhile to use > HTTP as transport protocol and XML to encode calendar objects. The > power and extensibility of XML allows us to represent calendar data > objects as well-formed XML documents. > > Simple Calendar Access Protocol(SCAP) allows exchanging calendaring > information between scheduling systems using the Hypertext Transfer > Protocol (HTTP). This allows users to schedule meetings with anyone > else, no matter what scheduling software they use. > > This document specifies a set of methods, headers, and content-types > ancillary to HTTP/1.1 for the management of calender properties, > creation and management of calendar objects, and namespace > manipulation. > >Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username >"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, >type "cd internet-drafts" and then > "get draft-reddy-scap-00.txt". >A URL for the Internet-Draft is: >ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reddy-scap-00.txt > >Internet-Drafts directories are located at: > > Africa: ftp.is.co.za > > Europe: ftp.nordu.net > ftp.nis.garr.it > > Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au > > US East Coast: ftp.ietf.org > > US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu > >Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. > >Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: > "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-reddy-scap-00.txt". > >NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in > MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this > feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" > command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or > a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers > exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with > "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split > up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on > how to manipulate these messages. > > >Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader >implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the >Internet-Draft. >Content-Type: text/plain >Content-ID: <19980521104128.I-D@ietf.org> > >ENCODING mime >FILE /internet-drafts/draft-reddy-scap-00.txt > ><ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reddy-scap-00.txt> > Carl-Uno Manros Principal Engineer - Advanced Printing Standards - Xerox Corporation 701 S. Aviation Blvd., El Segundo, CA, M/S: ESAE-231 Phone +1-310-333 8273, Fax +1-310-333 5514 Email: manros@cp10.es.xerox.com