Re: [caldav] various question on scheduling draft

["Tim Hare" <[e-mail]>]

In RFC 5445 for PRODID

"   Purpose:  This property specifies the identifier for the product that
      created the iCalendar object."

While it doesn't say this is REQUIRED or 'MUST specify' I believe that is
the intent.  The language could perhaps specify that requirement in the
future, with some standardized form for 'hand-edited' items.  For interop
troubleshooting issues it is critical that we know what created the
particular object we're looking at.

Tim Hare
Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.

>> * implementation question:
>> This is a rather philosophical one: the server is now altering 
>> calendar resources as much as the client (even on a simple create, 
>> just to update the SCHEDULE-STATUS). Should we preserve the PRODID of 
>> the client although the server altered the content, possibly in some 
>> drastic way ?
>CalDAV doesn't impose additional requirements on the PRODID property. As 
>such, refer to RFC5545 for PRODID requirements.  In my opinion, PRODID 
>should be set to the application that generated the iCalendar 
>representation. If the server always (re)generate the iCalendar 
>representation then it should specify its own PROPID.
>
>Thanks a lot for your feedback!
>
>Cheers,
>Bernard