There is a new GNU project starting up called GLUE that seems to be concerned
with at least some of the same things you are (plus other stuff). You
can start looking at their goals at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/glue/glue.html
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:46:16PM -0600,
Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:36:05PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> > > A good calendaring system requires that users receive requests for
> > > meetings and can answer them, and have trouble screwing them up (i.e.
> > > putting the metainfo in the subject line is easy to screw up). Email is the
> > > ideal medium for this communication, because it meshes well with our
> > > existing work patterns.
> > OK, then, how do you see it integrating with email?
>
> Let me clarify some of my questions:
>
> - Would there be a seperate part of the protocol designed to support
> calendaring, or should the events be presented as email messages?
> - Would the calendar be a seperate mailbox of a special type?
> - How would multiple calendars be dealt with?
> - Would the events be plain email messages or something else?
> - How would the events be transmitted to other users?
> - Would the TA (transfer agent) or the UA (user agent) be responsible
> for coordinating responses to calendar events (acknowledgements and
> rejections)?
> --
> Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
