Re: CAP-12-a: 8.30 RECUR-ACCEPTED

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> Doug wrote on 09/03/2003 06:06:22 PM:
>  > > I see that we have a Section 8.30 RECUR-ACCEPTED Property that 
> defined as:
>  > >
>  > >    Purpose: This property specifies if the endpoint supports recurring
>  > >   instances.
>  > > ...
>  > >    Description: Indicates if recurrence rules are supported.  If FALSE
>  > >   then the endpoint can not process any kind of recurring rules.
>  > >
>  > > The Purpose text talks about general recurrence but the Description 
> text
>  > > talks about recurrence rules.  This is a disjoin since:
>  > >
>  > > A) Recurrence also involves RDATEs/EXDATEs and not just 
> RRULEs/EXRULEs and
>  >
>  > 1) It does not say 'RRULE' or 'EXRULE'.
> 
> Correct.  The text under Description says "recurrence rules".  This 
> implys RRULEs (iCalendar, Section 4.8.5.4 Recurrence Rule) and thus 
> excludes EXRULES. 

Why do you fell that EXRULES are excluded? Where does it say
that?


> Im saying that this is a mistake.  Not every 
> implementation will support both RRULEs and EXRULEs so the draft needs 
> to be hip to this and not totally ignore both.

Again - do you have a suggestion?


>  > 2) Do you have a suggestion as to what it should say?
> 
> First we need to answer the discrepancy between the Purpose and the 
> Description.  Then we will have a better idea of what text to add.

Again - do you have a suggestion?

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