Re: [calsify] Timezone Service Protocol not quite complete

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Thu, 07 November 2013 16:33 UTC

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From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Julian Cable <julian.cable@bbc.co.uk>, IETF-Calsify <calsify@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [calsify] Timezone Service Protocol not quite complete
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Hi Julian,

--On November 7, 2013 at 4:26:55 PM +0000 Julian Cable 
<julian.cable@bbc.co.uk> wrote:

>> It is worth noting that there are several data formats in use right now:
>
> Personally, I'd love it if you supported exactly one abstract syntax, and
> ideally, exactly one concrete syntax.
>
> I'd rather parse JSON than rfc5545, but I'd rather have it your way than
> both our ways.

We do have jCal 
(<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal/>) which we 
will hopefully be finishing up work on now that jCard is done. I already 
tweaked my timezone service implementation to allow clients to request and 
receive jCal in addition to iCalendar formats.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo