Re: representing an event vs a calendar?

Doug Royer <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:45:51 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.calendar
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Currently the only WG way is by using CAP.

[email protected] wrote:

>In the wake of Apple's iCal.app it is growing increasingly popular to
>publish calendars as simple .ics files.  This means that most new
>iCalendar aware applications seem to treat a file of type text/calendar as
>a discrete calendar to be subscribed to (e.g. US Holidays) rather then a
>single event to added to a calendar store.
>
>I had a vague notion that it might be possible to address this using the
>"component" piece of the mime type, but when I went back and looked at the
>RFC this evening it didn't help after all.
>  
>
Yes. The Apple get/put method is for public PUBLISH calendars only is 
are not very
good for scheduling becase it is an all or nothing calendar.

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