Re: a question on VJOURNAL in RFC2445

Doug Royer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.calendar
Organization http://INET-Consulting.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
RFC2446 specifies that DTSTART is required in PUBLISH and ADD.
It is not needed in CANCEL. And those are the only three supported
METHOD's.

'dtstart' is not listed as required in the 2445 ABNF because it is not
always needed (METHOD:CANCEL).


Tim Hare wrote:

>
> In RCF2445 under "4.6.3 Journal Component" it states:
>
>
> >Description: A "VJOURNAL" calendar component is a grouping of
> >   component properties that represent one or more descriptive text
> >   notes associated with a particular calendar date. The "DTSTART"
> >   property is used to specify the calendar date that the journal entry
> >   is associated with
>
> Yet, DTSTART is not a _required_ property of a VJOURNAL entry. This 
> seems to me to be an error in RFC2445 - can someone give me a use case 
> or other reason for an undated VJOURNAL entry?
>
> Thanks
> Tim Hare
> Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.


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