Re: [calsify] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC9073 (7381)

[Ken Murchison <[e-mail]>]

This also looks like it should be verified, as RFC 9074 definitely wants 
support for an uncertainly value along with the location and the RFC 
5545 GEO property doesn't give us that.


On 3/9/23 4:51 AM, RFC Errata System wrote:
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC9073,
> "Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar".
>
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7381
>
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Olaf Bartelt <[e-mail]>
>
> Section: 7.2
>
> Original Text
> -------------
>     Format Definition:  This component is defined by the following
>        notation:
>
>        locationc    = "BEGIN" ":" "VLOCATION" CRLF
>                       locprop
>                       "END" ":" "VLOCATION" CRLF
>
>        locprop      = *(
>                       ;
>                       ; The following are REQUIRED
>                       ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
>                       ;
>                       uid /
>                       ;
>                       ; The following are OPTIONAL
>                       ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
>                       ;
>                       description / geo / loctype / name
>                       ;
>                       ; The following are OPTIONAL
>                       ; and MAY occur more than once.
>                       ;
>                       sdataprop / iana-prop
>                    )
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>     Format Definition:  This component is defined by the following
>        notation:
>
>        locationc    = "BEGIN" ":" "VLOCATION" CRLF
>                       locprop
>                       "END" ":" "VLOCATION" CRLF
>
>        locprop      = *(
>                       ;
>                       ; The following are REQUIRED
>                       ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
>                       ;
>                       uid /
>                       ;
>                       ; The following are OPTIONAL
>                       ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
>                       ;
>                       description / geo / loctype / name / url
>                       ;
>                       ; The following are OPTIONAL
>                       ; and MAY occur more than once.
>                       ;
>                       sdataprop / iana-prop
>                    )
>
> Notes
> -----
> The url property is missing or the specification clahes with RFC 9074, where in section 8.2 in the example it reads:
>
>     BEGIN:VLOCATION
>     UID:123456-abcdef-98765432
>     NAME:Office
>     URL:geo:40.443,-79.945;u=10
>     END:VLOCATION
>
> Either "geo" was intended as a geo uri as defined in RFC 5870 (instead of the geographic position from RFC 2445/5545) or "url" should be added as a valid property (or RFC 9074 is wrong).
>
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC9073 (draft-ietf-calext-eventpub-extensions-19)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
> Publication Date    : August 2021
> Author(s)           : M. Douglass
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Calendaring Extensions
> Area                : Applications and Real-Time
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
>
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Kenneth Murchison
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