My suggestion would be to send iCal attachments via email, this is already
a well established conduit for receiving these sorts of notices and many
mail clients can parse iCal natively. I fear many organizations can
subscribe to an CalDAV end point, even if that's the proper way to
'subscribe' for notices in a pull vs. push model.

Do you have a draft to share of the common fields?

--Matt

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Erik Klavon <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
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