Re: Clarification for Free/Busy

Tim Hare wrote:

>
> Second - to clarify one thing, the "not there" column means that the 
> STATUS property of the VEVENT is not present, I was trying to provide 
> for the case where we could not determine the status from the property.
>
> Third - since the Free/Busy query is directed toward one explicit 
> calendar UID,  I'm not sure we need to worry about attendee PARTSTAT - 
> aren't we really querying the free/busy times on that VCALENDAR/VAGENDA ?
>
> Fourth- I'm willing to accept that OPAQUE+CONFIRMED = BUSY instead of 
> BUSY-UNAVAILABLE as Dan Winship stated, but then where do 
> BUSY-UNAVAILABLE statuses come from - other parts of a CUA that "know" 
> my normal working hours? In my use of my calendaring software at work, 
> I have to schedule my vacation time on my calendar. I don't know how 
> I'd indicate that to my software to return that as BUSY-UNAVAILABLE. 
> Not saying it can't be done;  I'm just unclear about where it comes from. 

There is no predefined place it comes from. It is simply defended as 
time that can not
be scheduled. Perhaps it is a resource calendar that is off line for 
some specifically unspecified
reason.

> Fifth- if an attendee has declined an invitation then the time on 
> their calendar should be FREE if (and only if) there is no other 
> VEVENT in that time period. 


There is no predefined rule, it is up to the implementations which may 
have its own reasons.

Why do you think there has to be a predefined rule?

> Sixth- this is for automated Free/Busy replies to a query, not to 
> publishing free/busy time since that publishing effort could be done 
> by any number of things.

I do not think that we can predefine what the rule is for calculating
the BUSY-UNAVAILABLE time. We simply have to define that what is
returned is the BUSY-UNAVALIABLE time.

What is returned for a company car calendar may have hard coded
that 1/2 a day after a multi day usage the car is always
unavailable (perhaps for inspection, service, or whatever).

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