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Re: [Jcardcal] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal-09: (with COMMENT)

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Mon, 24 March 2014 21:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Jcardcal] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal-09: (with COMMENT)
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> section 1: this is odd: "Extensions to the underlying
> iCalendar specification must not lead to requiring an update
> to jCal." How are you going to prevent that happening?  I
> think the best you can do is point out how such an extension
> could break jcal and recommend to not do that.

It's a lower-case "must not".  What it's saying is that jCal is
designed to accommodate extensions to iCalendar, without requiring
changes to jCal.  It's not talking about changes that might show up in
a new major iCalendar version... just changes that use the normal
iCalendar extension mechanisms.

Barry

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