Re: Registration of media type application/calendar+xml

On 9/10/10 11:21 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
> 
>>>> An XML representation for iCalendar is vital if we are to keep
>>>> iCalendar relevant in the web-based world. The drive for this
>>>> work comes from a number of areas - in particular the smart
>>>> grid effort sponsored by NIST will make use of this as part of
>>>> the standards suite they are defining.
>>> 
>>> Somebody needs to talk some sense into those people.  Defining
>>> another calendar format will only harm interoperability.  It
>>> doesn't save any calendar implementation from needing to
>>> implement another parser, because if it wants to interoperate
>>> with existing products or be able to read old events it's still
>>> going to have to support iCalendar and probably vCalendar also.
>>> So what's the _technical_ (not political) benefit from doing
>>> this?
>> 
>> First of all look at the mess we have got into with contacts (see
>> recent discussion on the vcarddav WG mailing list). There we now
>> have vCard, PoCo, OpenSocial and some new thing the OMA is doing
>> (and their are lots of private apis too). Yet vCard has been around
>> for a long time - why didn't those other folks just use that or at
>> least propose fixes or extension to vcard that would satisfy their
>> issues? Well, certainly in the case of PoCo one clear requirement
>> was for a simple web/browser based solution - so they designed JSON
>> and XML representations.
> 
> Mumble.  It's a lot harder to make a web browser do something useful
> with a calendar object (no matter what the syntax) than it is to make
> a web browser do something useful with contact information.
> 
> And I *like* JSON.  I think it's a good approximation to what XML
> should have been.

It's not clear to me how your personal preference for JSON over XML is
relevant to registration of the application/calendar+xml media type or
continued work on draft-daboo-et-al-icalendar-in-xml. However, given
that you seem to object to the XML representation of vCards, calendaring
objects, and just about anything else, I suggest that you start a thread
about XML vs. JSON on the apps-discuss list rather than filling up the
archives of the ietf-types and ietf@ietf.org lists.

https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-discuss

Peter

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