Re: Clarification for Free/Busy

Anil SRIVASTAVA <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.calendar
Organization Sun ONE Software - a division of Sun Microsystems Inc [http://www.sun.com/software]
Message-ID <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311251008470.6080@nikita>
That makes sense.  Still no feedback on if an attendee has declined an
invitation.  I am assuming that would mean FREE, regardless of the value
of TRANSP.

On 2003-11-25/10:57 [-0500], [email protected] [Dan Winship] wrote:

>
> > >                 |  STATUS of VEVENT
> > >                 |
> > >VEVENT in period | TENTATIVE      | CONFIRMED        | CANCELLED | not there
> > >and TRANSP       |                |                  |           |
> > >=================|=====================================================
> > >No / (none)      | FREE           | FREE             | FREE      | FREE
> > >Yes/ OPAQUE      | BUSY-TENTATIVE | BUSY-UNAVAILABLE | FREE      | BUSY
> > >Yes/ TRANSPARENT | FREE           | FREE             | FREE      | FREE
>
> RFC 2445 says "The value BUSY indicates that the time interval is busy
> because one or more events have been scheduled for that interval.
> BUSY-UNAVAILABLE indicates that the time interval is busy and that the
> interval can not be scheduled." So OPAQUE+CONFIRMED is BUSY, not
> BUSY-UNAVAILABLE, since the interval has been scheduled.
>
> BUSY-UNAVAILABLE is like "I'm on vacation during this period" or "This
> is a holiday" or "These hours are outside my work day". (Assuming a
> work-related calendar.)
>
> -- Dan
>

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