Erik - This looks great, super extensive - I'd be very impressed if
carriers would provide all of this information. It may be easier to start
courting the IX operators, as they tend to be a bit more hip to adjusting
the status quo for their communities.

--Matt

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Erik Klavon <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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