Re: TZ: polygon

Simon Vaillancourt <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:54:42 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.calsify,gmane.ietf.calendar
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm saying it breaks RFC2445 because the formal definition of a 
VTIMEZONE component does not include anything allowing the addition of 
such property, if the formal definition had a iana-token, then it could 
be added.

--Simon

Doug Royer wrote:

>
> So in other words, you do not know if breaks anything?
> You just think they would break?
>
> Simon Vaillancourt wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Doug Royer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Any parser that it breaks is not 2445 compliant (unless you
>>> have some specific reason or bug in the draft
>>> you have not yet stated)..
>>>
>>
>> Maybe I missed something in 2445 but, in section 4.6.5, the formal 
>> definition of a VTIMEZONE object does not seem to contain anything 
>> allowing the addition of new non-"x-prop" parameters in a VTIMEZONE 
>> component(i.e.: iana-token). So if you do a parser and it validates 
>> the data using the formal definitions i will break (But yes most 
>> parsers are more forgiving than that).
>>