Subject: [Tzdist] WG Document Adoption

From: Dave Thewlis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:12:44 -0700

I agree that the timezone service protocol and CalDAV TZ by reference drafts should be adopted as WG drafts.  The service protocol draft has been hammered out over a few years; I believe it was mentioned elsewhere that it originated from observing the problems that resulted from implementation of the 2007 EDST changes in calendaring and scheduling systems and clients.  Of course the value and applicability of making TZ data available in real time is far broader than calendaring and scheduling.  

Several implementations of the service protocol are running; the authors are well aware that changes are likely to be needed as the drafts progress through the WG process; and it’s certainly time for a broader audience to weigh in on the drafts so the resultant standards are as applicable as possible.

CalConnect has tested the service protocol at several interoperability test events and will continue to do so.  We’ve also tested the impact of not including TZ data in .ics files (the point of the TZ by reference draft) against as many clients as possible.  Both drafts will continue to be tested at future test events (in fact there’s one in Bedford, UK at the end of September), to ensure that mooted changes to the drafts work as intended and the implementations correspond to the drafts.

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