Re: [calsify] New Draft - Maintenance Notifications Using iCalendar

I see this as looking for a specific “payload” of information for a VEVENT.  I would like to see a more general extension,  with a EVENTTYPE:  property that named a “schema” for DESCRIPTION: .    The calendar CUA could then invoke a “helper”/plug-in to process that schema;  if EVENTTYPE was not there, or the CUA was not EVENTTYPE-aware,  the client/UA would just display the text of DESCRIPTON: as happens now which would still show the structured fields, there just wouldn’t be anything to process them.

In your use case EVENTTYPE: would contain “Maintenance Notification” or “MAINTNOTE” and  the application would search for “Provider”,  “Account”,  “Maintenance ID”,  “Object ID”,  “Impact”, and “Status” within the DESCRIPTION text.   

Other types of specialized events could use different EVENTTYPEs – for example “OUTAGE” with schema for “Reason”, “Reported By”, “Resolved By”,  and “Resolution”.

Tim Hare

Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.

From: calsify [mailto:calsify-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of "Thomas Schäfer"
Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 7:19 AM
To: Ken Murchison <murch@fastmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [calsify] New Draft - Maintenance Notifications Using iCalendar

Hi Ryan,

what also come to my mind, when reading this is, that it looks to me, that there are redundant information included: X-MAINTNOTE-STATUS:IN-PROCESS.

The event includes a start and end-time and wouldn't it be assumed, that during this time period, the maintenance is in progress? The approach you took will need explicit changes to the event even if it happens as announced to update only the status of the maintenance.

Thomas

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 03. Juli 2019 um 23:12 Uhr
Von: "Ken Murchison" <murch@fastmail.com>
An: calsify@ietf.org
Betreff: Re: [calsify] New Draft - Maintenance Notifications Using iCalendar

Hi Ryan,

My initial reaction to reading this is that all of the new maintenance properties should be grouped under a single entity such as a STRUCTURED-DATA <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-calext-eventpub-extensions-13#section-7.6>  property or a new MAINTNOTE sub-component, similar to PARTICIPANT. <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-calext-eventpub-extensions-13#section-8.1> 

On 7/3/19 4:41 PM, Ryan Gunter wrote:

Hello,

I wanted to inform everyone of a new draft my team recently submitted, "Maintenance Notification Improvements Using iCalendar."

We would appreciate any feedback and hope this found useful by the community.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-gunter-calext-maintenance-notifications

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