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       Title     : iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)
       Author(s) : F. Dawson
       Filename  : draft-ietf-calsch-imip-00.txt
       Pages     : 90
       Date      : 05/02/1997

This document defines an iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol 
(iMIP), intended to be used to convey calendaring and scheduling semantics 
between different applications. This document is also being offered as a 
specification for demonstrating industry-wide, calendaring and scheduling 
interoperability.           

The message-based protocol defined by this document is useful not only 
in traditional electronic messaging (e-mail) transports, but also 
is applicable for conveying calendaring and scheduling information 
across any reliable transport; including memory-based clipboards, 
drag/drop protocols, wireless pagers, and the Infra-red Data 
Association (IrDA) object transfer protocol. This format is useful for 
both client-to-server communication, server-to-server communication, 
and client-to-client, peer communication (e.g., PDA synchronization 
with a PIM).      

This design document is heavily based on the prior work of the 
Versit Consortium's Personal Data Interchange (PDI) project team; including
the vCard v2.1 and the vCalendar v1.0 specifications. More information 
about the PDI project and these documents can be found on the Internet Mail
Consortium (IMC) website at http://www.imc.org/pdi.

In addition, this design document makes use of the work within the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Calendaring and Scheduling
(CALSCH) working group. More information about the IETF CALSCH
working group activities can be found on the IMC website at
http://www.imc.org, the IETF website at
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html. Refer to the
references within this document for further information on how to
access these various documents.
 
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