Re: [apps-discuss] Request for adoption of iSchedule as a WG work item

[Ken Murchison <[e-mail]>]

On 5/28/2013 10:34 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Hi folks,
> After consultation with Apps Area ADs and Apps Area WG chairs I would 
> like to request that the Apps Area WG adopt iSchedule 
> (<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-desruisseaux-ischedule/>) as 
> a working group item.
>
> iSchedule is a cross-domain calendaring and scheduling protocol based 
> on iCalendar (RFC5545), iTIP (RFC5546) and HTTP. The goal is to allow 
> efficient, secure and timely exchange of scheduling messages between 
> servers.
>
> The calendaring aspects of this protocol are pretty straightforward. 
> The hard part is security - in effect what we have is a messaging 
> protocol akin to email and what we want to avoid are all the problems 
> inherent in email (spoofing, spam etc). To that end we have adapted 
> DKIM (RFC6376) for use within our protocol (with the primary goal of 
> solving only the issues we need for iSchedule as opposed to developing 
> a generic solution for signing HTTP messages).
>
> iSchedule originated with work done at the Calendaring and Scheduling 
> Consortium (CalConnect) and has been developed over the last several 
> years via IETF drafts. There are already a number of prototype 
> implementations and CalConnect has been holding regular interop events 
> to test those and weed out issues with the spec.
>
> At this point we want to move forward with the draft with more 
> rigorous review, specifically of the security piece, and ultimately 
> move forward with publication as a proposed standard.
>
> So this is a call to see who in this WG would be willing to work on 
> this document, and whether the WG should adopt it

I am in favor of appsawg adopting this draft and I will continue to help 
work on it.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University