RFC 2446 (rfc2446) - Page 1 of 109
iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries
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Network Working Group S. Silverberg
Request for Comments: 2446 Microsoft
Category: Standards Track S. Mansour
Netscape
F. Dawson
Lotus
R. Hopson
ON Technologies
November 1998
iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol
(iTIP)
Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document specifies how calendaring systems use iCalendar objects
to interoperate with other calendar systems. It does so in a general
way so as to allow multiple methods of communication between systems.
Subsequent documents specify interoperable methods of communications
between systems that use this protocol.
The document outlines a model for calendar exchange that defines both
static and dynamic event, to-do, journal and free/busy objects.
Static objects are used to transmit information from one entity to
another without the expectation of continuity or referential
integrity with the original item. Dynamic objects are a superset of
static objects and will gracefully degrade to their static
counterparts for clients that only support static objects.
This document specifies an Internet protocol based on the iCalendar
object specification that provides scheduling interoperability
between different calendar systems. The Internet protocol is called
the "iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol
(iTIP)".
Silverberg, et. al. Standards Track