Re: Report from the CALSCH WG meeting at the 58th IETF on 11/11/03

Cyrus Daboo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.calendar
Message-ID <2147483647.1069075986@[10.0.1.8]>
Hi John,

--On Monday, November 17, 2003 8:53 -0500 John Stracke 
<[email protected]> wrote:

|> I will have to look up what WebDAV is, but the rest of it sounds OK to
|> me.
|
| RFC-2518; http://www.webdav.org
|
| It's a set of extensions to HTTP to manipulate resources on an HTTP
| server: move them around, create/delete them, list/create/delete
| directories, set/get metadata.  There is also work on extending WebDAV to
| support versioning and searching.

Access control is also an extension - obviously that would be important for 
any shared calendar applications. There is also an HTTP SASL extension in 
the works which will add more robust authentication - probably important 
for enterprise calendaring use.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo
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