Hi Matt and Chris, Our focus so far has been on identifying common fields. Maintenance impact is a common field we've identified.
vCal/iCal/CalDAV are good suggestions. We'll look into these standards when we take up the format question. If you know anyone who is has experience with these protocols and might be interested in helping out please send them my way. Thanks, Erik On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Chris Woodfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Was about to chime in with a similar thought myself. Do we have to > re-invent the wheel here WRT protocol? Can the “machine-parsable template” > simply be CalDAV, with some standard logic around mapping calendar “Guests” > to various services/circuits a customer may have with a vendor? > > -C > > On Mar 17, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Matt Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > > This seems like a great idea, were you thinking of using vCal/iCal > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar> and/or another format for > sharing or describing these events? It would also be useful to have some > attributes such as "you may be impacted by this work" vs "you will be > impacted". > > --Matt > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Erik Klavon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Greetings >> >> We all generate and consume communications on maintenance activities. >> I’ve put in my time manually processing these communications, converting >> time zones, adding entries to calendars, opening tickets, and – as with any >> manual process – introducing the occasional error along the way. Much of >> the time these notifications are carried in an email, the format of which >> varies from sender to sender. I’d love to have some conventions for the >> formatting of the information in these emails. Such conventions would make >> it simple to create tools that eliminate the more boring and error prone >> aspects of processing these emails. >> >> I’m shepherding a BCOP effort to identify common forms of notification, >> their common content, and propose machine parsable templates for >> notifications. Operators may include completed instances of these templates >> in their notifications to aid in their digestion. Thanks to the work of >> Randy Neals, who first championed this idea, we have a couple subject >> matter experts from the community who have signed on to this effort. We’re >> looking for additional people to get involved, especially people with >> programming experience. Reach out to me if you’re interested. >> >> Erik >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BCOP mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/bcop >> >> > _______________________________________________ > BCOP mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/bcop > > >
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