What do people think about using a client/server protocol to get
calendar data to the Palm/mobile device?
- It's the only usable approach for email -- I know people who love
their IMAP or POP clients for treo or Palm, and I don't think PC synch
is even an option here
- Contacts are feasible as a PC synch approach because contacts data
is relatively static
- Calendaring is somewhere between the volatility of email and
stability of contacts, but... in a world where more people are moving
their calendar data to a server, isn't PC synch going to feel awfully
clumsy?
I know I'm showing my biases here, but even trying to discount those, I
still think this is the future for mobile calendaring.
Lisa
On Nov 30, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
Ted Leung wrote:
Lack of a PDA story makes us a non-starter for a lot of people. The
problem is that there is probably no good cross platform way to do
this. It seems to me that the shortest path involves seeing if we
could write import/export plugins that could talk to platform native
services (such as Sync Services on OS X) which already know how to
talk
to PDAs.
There are some PDA products (well, PDA platforms) with significant
market share and we could target one or two popular ones to get
started.
Writing something for a platform specific service could also be an
option.
A quick search on SyncML showed that there are 14 projects on
sourceforge.net that mention it. Google search gives many more.
Brian Skinner did some research on SyncML for OSAF a couple of years
ago: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/SyncML
I bet the situation has changed a lot since then.
I didn't see ACL's in the infrastructure tenet. Unless they are in
there to support 0.7 sharing functionality (or the work needs to start
now in order to be ready for 0.8), then I think we should defer.
I think it should be a conditional item: if Cosmo is going to get ACL
in
time for Chandler 0.7 I think we should invest in it in Chandler as
well. I have an ACL library in Zanshin where the implementation is
maybe
80% complete of what I think we would need for 0.7, which IMO basically
means an API that semi-automatically translates a standard ACL to
server-customized ACL and vice versa.
--
Heikki Toivonen
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