Hi Matt,

What we have so far is in this document:

https://cloud.box.com/s/rz2kimfnd8bhihrrjwah0wuwykmwfcls

Erik

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Matt Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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