On 9/10/10 11:21 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > >>>> An XML representation for iCalendar is vital if we are to keep >>>> iCalendar relevant in the web-based world. The drive for this >>>> work comes from a number of areas - in particular the smart >>>> grid effort sponsored by NIST will make use of this as part of >>>> the standards suite they are defining. >>> >>> Somebody needs to talk some sense into those people. Defining >>> another calendar format will only harm interoperability. It >>> doesn't save any calendar implementation from needing to >>> implement another parser, because if it wants to interoperate >>> with existing products or be able to read old events it's still >>> going to have to support iCalendar and probably vCalendar also. >>> So what's the _technical_ (not political) benefit from doing >>> this? >> >> First of all look at the mess we have got into with contacts (see >> recent discussion on the vcarddav WG mailing list). There we now >> have vCard, PoCo, OpenSocial and some new thing the OMA is doing >> (and their are lots of private apis too). Yet vCard has been around >> for a long time - why didn't those other folks just use that or at >> least propose fixes or extension to vcard that would satisfy their >> issues? Well, certainly in the case of PoCo one clear requirement >> was for a simple web/browser based solution - so they designed JSON >> and XML representations. > > Mumble. It's a lot harder to make a web browser do something useful > with a calendar object (no matter what the syntax) than it is to make > a web browser do something useful with contact information. > > And I *like* JSON. I think it's a good approximation to what XML > should have been.
It's not clear to me how your personal preference for JSON over XML is relevant to registration of the application/calendar+xml media type or continued work on draft-daboo-et-al-icalendar-in-xml. However, given that you seem to object to the XML representation of vCards, calendaring objects, and just about anything else, I suggest that you start a thread about XML vs. JSON on the apps-discuss list rather than filling up the archives of the ietf-types and ietf@ietf.org lists. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-discuss Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
