Re: [apps-discuss] iCalendar and vCard in JSON: WG draft charter

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

This is going to be Pete's working group, but let me add one thing to
what Cyrus said about the aggressive schedule and the "fast track":

A while ago, we chartered the imapmove working group on a very fast
chartering schedule, and we're looking to do even more here.  The idea
that "it takes too long to create a working group" is something we
need to dispel.  In this case, we have an opportunity, with two
back-to-back IESG telechats a week apart, so we are looking for *this
Friday* (15 Feb) to put this on the telechat agenda for next week (21
Feb), and to have it get final approval on the 28th.  That's three
weeks from charter proposal to approval.

That means that we need to hear any *major* objections to this now --
please have a look at this quickly and call out anything we've really
goofed on before Friday.  We then have until next Thursday (21st) to
get the details of the charter in shape for broad review.

Barry, Applications AD

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Cyrus Daboo <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> At the prompting of the Weirds WG there is a need to move more quickly on
> developing specifications for JSON-based data formats for iCalendar and
> vCard data, without necessarily waiting on other (proposed) JSON working
> group work to proceed.
>
> A proposed charter for a "fast-track" Working Group is posted at
> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/appsawg/trac/wiki/jcardcal> for feedback. The
> charter defines aggressive milestones and attempts to limit the objectives
> such that those are achievable. Please review and post comments back to the
> apps-discuss list.
>
> Whilst initial focus will be on the draft charter, some drafts have already
> been published describing possible (different) approaches. One for
> iCalendar:
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kewisch-et-al-icalendar-in-json/>,
> and one for vCard:
> <http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-bhat-vcarddav-json-00.txt>. We also hope to
> have an alternative jCard draft published in the next day or two that uses
> the same approach as draft-kewisch-et-al-icalendar-in-json. These should
> provide a good basis for initial input into the working group.
>
> --
> Cyrus Daboo