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draft-ietf-calext-eventpub-extensions-13
Network Working Group                                        M. Douglass
Internet-Draft                                       Spherical Cow Group
Updates: 5545,7986 (if approved)                            May 26, 2019
Intended status: Standards Track
Expires: November 27, 2019

                Event Publishing Extensions to iCalendar
                draft-ietf-calext-eventpub-extensions-13

Abstract

   This specification updates RFC5545 by introducing a number of new
   iCalendar properties and components which are of particular use for
   event publishers and in social networking.

   This specification also defines a new STRUCTURED-DATA property for
   iCalendar RFC5545 to allow for data that is directly pertinent to an
   event or task to be included with the calendar data.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.1.  Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Components and properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Typed References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
       3.1.1.  Piano Concert Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
       3.1.2.  Itineraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
         3.1.2.1.  Reserving facilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  Modifications to Calendar Components  . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  New Property Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.1.  Loctype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.2.  Restype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.3.  Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     5.4.  Schema  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.5.  Derived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   6.  Redefined Property SOURCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   7.  New Properties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     7.1.  Participant Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     7.2.  Calendar Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     7.3.  Styled-Description  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     7.4.  Structured-Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     7.5.  Structured-Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     7.6.  Structured-Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   8.  New Components  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     8.1.  Participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     8.2.  Schedulable Participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   9.  Extended examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
     9.1.  Example 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
     9.2.  Example 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
   10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
   11. Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
   12. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     12.1.  Additional iCalendar Registrations . . . . . . . . . . .  28
       12.1.1.  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
       12.1.2.  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
       12.1.3.  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     12.2.  New Registration Tables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       12.2.1.  Participant Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       12.2.2.  Resource Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   13. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   14. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
     14.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30

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     14.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
   Appendix A.  Open issues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
   Appendix B.  Change log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34

1.  Introduction

   The currently existing iCalendar standard [RFC5545] lacks useful
   methods for referencing additional, external information relating to
   calendar components.  Additionally there is no standard way to
   provide rich text descriptions or meta-data associated with the
   event.

   Current practice is to embed this information as links in the
   description or to add non-standard properties as defined in [RFC5545]
   section 3.8.8.2.

   This document updates [RFC5545] to define a number of properties and
   a component referencing such external information that can provide
   additional information about an iCalendar component.  The intent is
   to allow interchange of such information between applications or
   systems (e.g., between clients, between client and server, and
   between servers).  Formats such as VCARD [RFC2426] are likely to be
   most useful to the receivers of such events as they may be used in
   other applications - such as address books.

1.1.  Conventions Used in This Document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

2.  Components and properties

   Previous extensions to the calendaring standards have been largely
   restricted to the addition of properties or parameters.  This is
   partly because iCalendar libraries had trouble handling components
   nested deeper than those defined in [RFC5545].

   In a break with this 'tradition' this specification defines
   PARTICIPANT as a component rather than a property.  This is a better
   match for the way [W3C.REC-xml-20081126] and JSON [RFC8259] handle
   such structures and allows richer definitions.

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   It also allows for the addition of extra properties inside the
   component and resolves some of the problems of trying to add detailed
   information as a parameter.

   Many people or groups may participate in an event.  The PARTICIPANT
   component provides such detailed information.  Participants may act
   as attendees to the event (or derived events) or may just provide a
   reference - perhaps for mailing lists.

3.  Typed References

   The properties defined here can all reference external meta-data
   which may be used by applications to provide enhanced value to users.
   By providing type information as parameters, clients and servers are
   able to discover interesting references and make use of them, perhaps
   for indexing or the presenting of additional related information for
   the user.

   The [RFC5545] LOCATION property provides only an unstructured single
   text value for specifying the location where an event (or task) will
   occur.  This is inadequate for use cases where structured location
   information (e.g. address, region, country, postal code) is required
   or preferred, and limits widespread adoption of iCalendar in those
   settings.

   Using STRUCTURED-LOCATION, information about a number of interesting
   locations can be communicated, for example, address, region, country,
   postal code as well as other informations such as the parking,
   restaurants and the venue.  Servers and clients can retrieve the
   objects when storing the event and use them to index by geographic
   location.

   When a calendar client receives a calendar component it can search
   the set of supplied properties looking for those of particular
   interest.  The TYPE and FMTTYPE parameters, if supplied, can be used
   to help the selection.

   The PARTICIPANT component is designed to handle common use cases in
   event publication.  It is generally important to provide information
   about the organizers of such events.  Sponsors wish to be referenced
   in a prominent manner.  In social calendaring it is often important
   to identify the active participants in the event, for example a
   school sports team, and the inactive participants, for example the
   parents.

   The PARTICIPANT component can also be used to provide useful extra
   data about an attendee.  For example a LOCATION property inside the

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   PARTICIPANT gives the actual location of a remote attendee.  (But see
   the note about privacy.)

3.1.  Use Cases

   The main motivation for these properties has been event publication
   but there are opportunities for use elsewhere.  The following use
   cases will describe some possible scenarios.

3.1.1.  Piano Concert Performance

   In putting together a concert there are many participants: piano
   tuner, performer, stage hands etc.  In addition there are sponsors
   and various contacts to be provided.  There will also be a number of
   related locations.  A number of events can be created, all of which
   relate to the performance in different ways.

   There may be an iTip [RFC5546] meeting request for the piano tuner
   who will arrive before the performance.  Other members of staff may
   also receive meeting requests.

   An event can also be created for publication which will have a
   PARTICIPANT component for the pianist providing a reference to VCARD
   [RFC2426] information about the performer.  This event would also
   hold information about parking, local subway stations and the venue
   itself.  In addition, there will be sponsorship information for
   sponsors of the event and perhaps paid sponsorship properties
   essentially advertising local establishments.

3.1.2.  Itineraries

   These additions also provide opportunities for the travel industry.
   When booking a flight the PARTICIPANT component can be used to
   provide references to businesses at the airports and to car hire
   businesses at the destination.

   The embedded location information can guide the traveller at the
   airport or to their final destination.  The contact information can
   provide detailed information about the booking agent, the airlines,
   car hire companies and the hotel.

3.1.2.1.  Reserving facilities

   For a meeting, the size of a room and the equipment needed depends to
   some extent on the number of attendees actually in the room.

   A meeting may have 10 attendees non of which are co-located.  The
   current ATTENDEE property does not allow for the addition of such

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   meta-data.  The PARTICIPANT property allows attendees to specify
   their location.

4.  Modifications to Calendar Components

   The following changes to the syntax defined in iCalendar [RFC5545]
   are made here.  New elements are defined in subsequent sections.

   eventc     = "BEGIN" ":" "VEVENT" CRLF
               eventprop *alarmc *participantc
               "END" ":" "VEVENT" CRLF

   eventprop =/ *(
                 ;
                 ; The following are OPTIONAL,
                 ; and MAY occur more than once.
                 ;
                 styleddescription / strucloc / strucres / sdataprop
                 ;
                 )

   todoc      = "BEGIN" ":" "VTODO" CRLF
               todoprop *alarmc *participantc
               "END" ":" "VTODO" CRLF

   todoprop =/ *(
                ;
                ; The following are OPTIONAL,
                ; and MAY occur more than once.
                ;
                styleddescription / strucloc / strucres / sdataprop
                ;
                )

   journalc   = "BEGIN" ":" "VJOURNAL" CRLF
               jourprop *participantc
               "END" ":" "VJOURNAL" CRLF

   jourprop =/ *(
                ;
                ; The following are OPTIONAL,
                ; and MAY occur more than once.
                ;
                styleddescription / sdataprop
                ;
                )

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   freebusyc  = "BEGIN" ":" "VFREEBUSY" CRLF
               fbprop *participantc
               "END" ":" "VFREEBUSY" CRLF

   fbprop     =/ *(
                ;
                ; The following are OPTIONAL,
                ; and MAY occur more than once.
                ;
                styleddescription
                ;
                )

5.  New Property Parameters

   This specification makes use of the LABEL parameter which is defined
   in [RFC7986]

5.1.  Loctype

   Parameter name:  LOCTYPE

   Purpose:  To specify the type of location.

   Format Definition:

   This parameter is defined by the following notation:

     loctypeparam   = "LOCTYPE" "=" param-value

   Description:  This parameter MAY be specified on STRUCTURED-LOCATION
      and provides a way to differentiate multiple properties.  For
      example, it allows event producers to provide location information
      for the venue and the parking.

      Values for this parameter are taken from the values defined in
      [RFC4589].  New location types SHOULD be registered in the manner
      laid down in that specification.

5.2.  Restype

   Parameter name:  RESTYPE

   Purpose:  To specify the type of resource.

   Format Definition:

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   This parameter is defined by the following notation:

     restypeparam  = "RESTYPE" "=" restypevalue CRLF

     restypevalue  = ("ROOM"
                     / "PROJECTOR"
                     / "REMOTE-CONFERENCE-AUDIO"
                     / "REMOTE-CONFERENCE-VIDEO"
                     / iana-token)     ; Other IANA-registered
                                       ; values

   Description:  This parameter MAY be specified on STRUCTURED-RESOURCE
      and provides a way to differentiate multiple properties.

      The registered values are described below.  New resource types
      SHOULD be registered in the manner laid down in this
      specification.

   ROOM:  A room for the event/meeting.

   PROJECTOR:  Projection equipment.

   REMOTE-CONFERENCE-AUDIO:  Audio remote conferencing facilities.

   REMOTE-CONFERENCE-VIDEO:  Video remote conferencing facilities.

5.3.  Order

   Parameter name:  ORDER

   Purpose:  To define ordering for the associated property.

   Format Definition:

   This parameter is defined by the following notation:

  orderparam    = "ORDER" "=" integer ;Must be greater than or equal to 1

   Description:  The ORDER parameter is OPTIONAL and is used to indicate
      the relative ordering of the corresponding instance of a property.
      Its value MUST be an integer greater than or equal to 1 that
      specifies the order with 1 being the first in the ordering.

      When the parameter is absent, the default MUST be to interpret the
      property instance as being at the lowest level of ordering, that
      is, the property will appear after any other instances of the same
      property with any value of ORDER.

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      When any ORDER parameters have the same value all the associated
      properties appear as a group within which there is no defined
      order.

      Note that the value of this parameter is to be interpreted only in
      relation to values assigned to other corresponding instances of
      the same property in the same entity.

      This parameter MUST NOT be applied to a property that does not
      allow multiple instances.

   Example uses:  The ORDER may be applied to the PARTICIPANT-TYPE
      property to indicate the relative importance of the participant,
      for example as a sponsor or a performer.  For example, ORDER=1
      could define the principal performer or soloist.

5.4.  Schema

   Parameter Name:  SCHEMA

   Purpose:  To specify the schema used for the content of a
      "STRUCTURED-DATA" property value.

   Format Definition:

   This parameter is defined by the following notation:

     schemaparam    = "SCHEMA" "=" DQUOTE uri DQUOTE

   Description:  This property parameter SHOULD be specified on
      "STRUCTURED-DATA" properties.  When present it provides
      identifying information about the nature of the content of the
      corresponding "STRUCTURED-DATA" property value.  This can be used
      to supplement the media type information provided by the "FMTTYPE"
      parameter on the corresponding property.

   Example:

     STRUCTURED-DATA;FMTTYPE=application/ld+json;
      SCHEMA="https://schema.org/FlightReservation";
      ENCODING=BASE64;VALUE=BINARY:Zm9vYmFy

5.5.  Derived

   Parameter Name:  DERIVED

   Purpose:  To specify that the value of the associated property is
      derived from some other property value or values.

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   Format Definition:

   This parameter is defined by the following notation:

     derivedparam    = "DERIVED" "=" ("TRUE" / "FALSE")
     ; Default is FALSE

   Description:  This property parameter can be specified on any
      property when the value is derived from some other property or
      properties.  When present with a value of TRUE clients MUST NOT
      update the property.

      As an example, if a STYLED-DESCRIPTION property is present with
      FMTTYPE="application/rtf" then there may be an additional STYLED-
      DESCRIPTION property with FMTTYPE="text/html" and DERIVED=TRUE and
      a value created from the rtf value.

   Example:

     STYLED-DESCRIPTION;FMTTYPE=text/html;
      DERIVED=TRUE:<html>...

6.  Redefined Property SOURCE

   The SOURCE property defined in [RFC7986] is redefined to allow
   VALUE=TEXT and broaden its usage to any component.

   Property name:  SOURCE

   Purpose:  This property provides a reference to information about a
      component such as a participant.  For example, that information
      may be a vcard or a plain text typed value.

      For value type URI and embedded in a VEVENT or VTODO it may
      provide a location from which the compoent may be refreshed.

   Value type:  There is no default value type for this property.  It
      may be set to URI as in [RFC7986].  The value type can also be set
      to TEXT to indicate plain text content.

   Property Parameters:  Non-standard or format type parameters can be
      specified on this property.

   Conformance:  This property can be specified once in an iCalendar
      object.

   Description:  This property provides information about the component
      in which it appears.

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      In a PARTICIPANT component it may provide a reference to a vcard
      giving directory information.

      In a VCALENDAR component this property identifies a location where
      a client can retrieve updated data for the calendar.  Clients
      SHOULD honor any specified "REFRESH-INTERVAL" value when
      periodically retrieving data.  Note that this property differs
      from the "URL" property in that "URL" is meant to provide an
      alternative representation of the calendar data rather than the
      original location of the data.

      In a calendar entity component such as an event the SOURCE
      property may provide a reference to the original source of the
      event.  This may be used by aggregators to provide a link back.

   Format Definition:

   This property is defined by the following notation:

       source     = "SOURCE" sourceparam
                   (
                     (
                       ";" "VALUE" "=" "URI"
                       ":" uri
                     )  /
                     (
                       ";" "VALUE" "=" "TEXT"
                       ":" text
                     )
                   )
                   CRLF

       sourceparam      = *(
                   ;
                   ; the following are OPTIONAL
                   ; but MUST NOT occur more than once
                   ;
                   (";" fmttypeparam) /
                   ;
                   ; the following is OPTIONAL
                   ; and MAY occur more than once
                   ;
                   (";" other-param)
                   ;
                   )

   Example:

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   The following is an example referring to a VCARD.

       SOURCE;FMTTYPE=text/vcard;VALUE=URL:
        http://dir.example.com/vcard/contacts/contact1.vcf

7.  New Properties

7.1.  Participant Type

   Property name:  PARTICIPANT-TYPE

   Purpose:  To specify the type of participant.

   Value type:  The value type for this property is TEXT.  The allowable
      values are defined below.

   Property Parameters:  Non-standard parameters can be specified on
      this property.

   Conformance:  This property MUST be specified once within a
      PARTICIPANT component.

   Description:  This property defines the type of participation in
      events or tasks.  Participants can be individuals or
      organizations, for example a soccer team, the spectators, or the
      musicians.

   Format Definition:

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   This property is defined by the following notation:

      participanttype   = "PARTICIPANT-TYPE" partvalueparam ":"
                          partvalue CRLF

      partvalue    = ("ACTIVE"
                     / "INACTIVE"
                     / "SPONSOR"
                     / "CONTACT"
                     / "BOOKING-CONTACT"
                     / "EMERGENCY-CONTACT"
                     / "PUBLICITY-CONTACT"
                     / "PLANNER-CONTACT"
                     / "PERFORMER"
                     / "SPEAKER"
                     / iana-token)     ; Other IANA-registered
                                       ; values

      partvalueparam   = *(
                     ; the following is OPTIONAL
                     ; and MAY occur more than once
                     ;
                     (";" other-param)
                     )

   Example:

   The following is an example of this property:

      PARTICIPANT-TYPE:SPEAKER

   The registered values for the PARTICIPANT-TYPE property have the
   meanings described here:

   ACTIVE:  A participant taking an active role - for example a team
      member.

   INACTIVE:  A participant taking an inactive part - for example an
      audience member.

   SPONSOR:  A sponsor of the event.  The ORDER parameter may be used
      with this participant type to define the relative order of
      multiple sponsors.

   CONTACT:  Contact information for the event.  The ORDER parameter may
      be used with this participant type to define the relative order of
      multiple contacts.

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   BOOKING-CONTACT:  Contact information for reservations or payment

   EMERGENCY-CONTACT:  Contact in case of emergency

   PUBLICITY-CONTACT:  Contact for publicity

   PLANNER-CONTACT:  Contact for the event planner or organizer

   PERFORMER:  A performer - for example the soloist or the accompanist.
      The ORDER parameter may be used with this participant type to
      define the relative order of multiple performers.  For example,
      ORDER=1 could define the principal performer or soloist.

   SPEAKER:  Speaker at an event

7.2.  Calendar Address

   Property name:  CALENDAR-ADDRESS

   Purpose:  To specify the calendar address for a participant.

   Value type:  CAL-ADDRESS

   Property Parameters:  IANA or non-standard property parameters can be
      specified on this property.

   Conformance:  This property MAY be specified once within a
      PARTICIPANT component.

   Description:  This property provides a calendar user address for the
      participant.  If there is an ATTENDEE property with the same value
      then the participant is schedulable.

   Format Definition:

   This property is defined by the following notation:

      calendaraddress   = "CALENDAR-ADDRESS" caladdressparam ":"
                     cal-address CRLF

       caladdressparam   = *(
                     ; the following is OPTIONAL
                     ; and MAY occur more than once
                     ;
                     (";" other-param)
                     )

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7.3.  Styled-Description

   Property name:  STYLED-DESCRIPTION

   Purpose:  This property provides for one or more rich-text
      descriptions to replace that provided by the DESCRIPTION property.

   Value type:  There is no default value type for this property.  The
      value type can be set to URI or TEXT.  Other text-based value
      types can be used when defined in the future.  Clients MUST ignore
      any properties with value types they do not understand.

   Property Parameters:  IANA, non-standard, id, alternate text
      representation, format type, derived and language property
      parameters can be specified on this property.

   Conformance:  The property can be specified multiple times in the
      "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL", "VFREEBUSY", "PARTICIPANT", or
      "VALARM" calendar components.

      If it does appear more than once there MUST be exactly one
      instance of the property with no DERIVED parameter or
      DERIVED=FALSE.  All others MUST have DERIVED=TRUE.

      Additionally, if there is one or more STYLED-DESCRIPTION property
      then the DESCRIPTION property should be either absent or have the
      parameter DERIVED=TRUE.

   Description:  This property supports rich-text descriptions, for
      example HTML.  Event publishers typically wish to provide more and
      better formatted information about the event.

      This property is used in the "VEVENT" and "VTODO" to capture
      lengthy textual descriptions associated with the activity.  This
      property is used in the "VJOURNAL" calendar component to capture
      one or more textual journal entries.  This property is used in the
      "VALARM" calendar component to capture the display text for a
      DISPLAY category of alarm, and to capture the body text for an
      EMAIL category of alarm.  In the PARTICIPANT component it provides
      a detailed description of the participant.

      VALUE=TEXT is used to provide rich-text inline as the property
      value.

      VALUE=URI is used to provide a link to rich-text content which is
      expected to be displayed inline as part of the event.

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      In either case the DESCRIPTION property should be absent or
      contain a plain text rendering of the styled text.

      Applications MAY attempt to guess the media type of the resource
      via inspection of its content if and only if the media type of the
      resource is not given by the "FMTTYPE" parameter.  If the media
      type remains unknown, calendar applications SHOULD treat it as
      type "text/html" and process the content as defined in
      [W3C.REC-html51-20171003]

      Multiple STYLED-DESCRIPTION properties may be used to provide
      different formats or different language variants.  However all but
      one MUST have DERIVED=TRUE.

   Format Definition:

   This property is defined by the following notation:

     styleddescription = "STYLED-DESCRIPTION" styleddescparam ":"
                     styleddescval CRLF

     styleddescparam   = *(
                     ; The following is REQUIRED,
                     ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
                     ;
                     (";" "VALUE" "=" ("URI" / "TEXT")) /
                     ;
                     ; The following are OPTIONAL,
                     ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
                     ;
                     (";" altrepparam) / (";" languageparam) /
                     (";" fmttypeparam) / (";" derivedparam) /
                     ;
                     ; the following is OPTIONAL
                     ; and MAY occur more than once
                     ;
                     (";" other-param)
                     )

     styleddescval   = ( uri / text )
     ;Value MUST match value type

   Example:

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   The following is an example of this property.  It points to an html
   description.

          STYLED-DESCRIPTION;VALUE=URI:http://example.org/desc001.html

7.4.  Structured-Location

   Property name:  STRUCTURED-LOCATION

   Purpose:  This property provides a typed reference to external
      information about the location of an event or optionally a plain
      text typed value.

   Value type:  There is no default value type for this property.  The
      value type can be set to URI or TEXT.

   Property Parameters:  IANA, non-standard, label, loctype, related or
      format type parameters can be specified on this property.

   Conformance:  This property MAY be specified zero or more times in
      any iCalendar component.

   Description:  There may be a number of locations associated with an
      event.  This provides detailed information about these locations.

      When used in a component the value of this property provides
      information about the event venue or of related services such as
      parking, dining, stations etc..

      When a LABEL parameter is supplied the language of the label
      SHOULD match that of the content and of the LANGUAGE parameter if
      present.

   Use of the related parameter:  This allows a location to define the
      start and/or end timezone of the associated component.  If a
      location is specified with a RELATED parameter then the affected
      DTSTART or DTEND properties MUST be specified as floating DATE-
      TIME value.

      If the RELATED parameter is present with a value of START, then
      the "DTSTART" property MUST be present in the associated "VEVENT"
      or "VTODO" calendar component.

      For an event, if the RELATED parameter is present with a value of
      END, then the "DTEND" property or the "DTSTART" and "DURATION "
      properties MUST be present in the associated "VEVENT" calendar
      component.

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      For a to-do with a RELATED value of END, then either the "DUE"
      property or the "DTSTART" and "DURATION " properties MUST be
      present in the associated "VTODO" calendar component.

      If there is a location specified with RELATED=START and no
      location is specified with RELATED=END then the event is assumed
      to start and end in the same timezone.

   Format Definition:

   This property is defined by the following notation:

     strucloc        = "STRUCTURED-LOCATION" struclocparam ":"
                       struclocval CRLF

     struclocparam   = *(
                     ; The following is REQUIRED,
                     ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
                     ;
                     (";" "VALUE" "=" ("URI" / "TEXT")) /
                     ;
                     ; the following are OPTIONAL
                     ; but MUST NOT occur more than once
                     ;
                     (";" fmttypeparam) /
                     (";" labelparam) /
                     (";" languageparam) /
                     (";" trigrelparam) /
                     (";" loctypeparam) /
                     ;
                     ; the following is OPTIONAL
                     ; and MAY occur more than once
                     ;
                     (";" other-param)
                     )

     struclocval   = ( uri / text )
     ;Value MUST match value type

   Example:

   The following is an example of this property.  It points to a venue.

                    STRUCTURED-LOCATION;LABEL="The venue";
                      VALUE=URI:
                      http://dir.example.com/venues/big-hall.vcf

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7.5.  Structured-Resource

   Property name:  STRUCTURED-RESOURCE

   Purpose:  This property provides a typed reference to external
      information about a resource or optionally a plain text typed
      value.  Typically a resource is anything that might be required or
      used by a calendar entity and possibly has a directory entry.

   Value type:  There is no default value type for this property.  The
      value type can be set to URI or TEXT.

   Property Parameters:  IANA, non-standard, label, restype or format
      type parameters can be specified on this property.

   Conformance:  The property can be specified multiple times in the
      "VEVENT" or "VTODO" calendar components.

   Description:  When used in a component the value of this property
      provides information about resources used for the event such as
      rooms, projectors, conferencing capabilities.

      Such resources may be a room or a projector.  This RESTYPE value
      registry provides a place in which resource types may be
      registered for use by scheduling sevices.

      When a LABEL parameter is supplied the language of the label must
      match that of the content and of the LANGUAGE parameter if
      present.

   Format Definition:

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   This property is defined by the following notation:

     strucres       = "STRUCTURED-RESOURCE" strucresparam ":"
                       strucresval CRLF

     strucresparam  = *(
                     ; The following is REQUIRED,
                     ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
                     ;
                     (";" "VALUE" "=" ("URI" / "TEXT")) /
                     ;
                     ; the following are OPTIONAL
                     ; but MUST NOT occur more than once
                     ;
                     (";" fmttypeparam) /
                     (";" labelparam) /
                     (";" languageparam) /
                     (";" restypeparam) /
                     ;
                     ; the following is OPTIONAL
                     ; and MAY occur more than once
                     ;
                     (";" other-param)
                     )

     strucewaval   = ( uri / text )
     ;Value MUST match value type

   Example:

   The following is an example of this property.  It refers to a
   projector.

                    STRUCTURED-RESOURCE;value=uri;restype="projector":
                      http://dir.example.com/projectors/3d.vcf

7.6.  Structured-Data

   Property Name:  STRUCTURED-DATA

   Purpose:  This property specifies ancillary data associated with the
      calendar component.

   Value Type:  TEXT, BINARY or URI

   Property Parameters:  IANA, non-standard, inline encoding, and value
      data type property parameters can be specified on this property.

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      The format type and schema parameters can be specified on this
      property and are RECOMMENDED for text or inline binary encoded
      content information.

   Conformance:  This property can be specified multiple times in an
      iCalendar object.  Typically it would be used in "VEVENT",
      "VTODO", or "VJOURNAL" calendar components.

   Description:  The existing properties in iCalendar cover key elements
      of events and tasks such as start time, end time, location,
      summary, etc.  However, different types of events often have other
      specific "fields" that it is useful to include in the calendar
      data.  For example, an event representing an airline flight could
      include the airline, flight number, departure and arrival airport
      codes, check-in and gate-closing times etc.  As another example, a
      sporting event might contain information about the type of sport,
      the home and away teams, the league the teams are in, information
      about nearby parking, etc.

      This property is used to specify ancillary data in some structured
      format either directly (inline) as a "TEXT" or "BINARY" value, or
      as a link via a "URI" value.

      Rather than define new iCalendar properties for the variety of
      event types that might occur, it would be better to leverage
      existing schemas for such data.  For example, schemas available at
      https://schema.org include different event types.  By using
      standard schemas, interoperability can be improved between
      calendar clients and non-calendaring systems that wish to generate
      or process the data.

      This property allows the direct inclusion of ancillary data whose
      schema is defined elsewhere.  This property also includes
      parameters to clearly identify the type of the schema being used
      so that clients can quickly and easily spot what is relevant
      within the calendar data and present that to users or process it
      within the calendaring system.

      iCalendar does support an "ATTACH" property which can be used to
      include documents or links to documents within the calendar data.
      However, that property does not allow data to be included as a
      "TEXT" value (a feature that "STRUCTURED-DATA" does allow), plus
      attachments are often treated as "opaque" data to be processed by
      some other system rather than the calendar client.  Thus the
      existing "ATTACH" property is not sufficient to cover the specific
      needs of inclusion of schema data.  Extending the "ATTACH"
      property to support a new value type would likely cause

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      interoperability problems.  Thus a new property to support
      inclusion of schema data is warranted.

   Format Definition:

   This property is defined by the following notation:

     sdataprop   = "STRUCTURED-DATA" sdataparam
                       (":" text) /
                       (
                         ";" "ENCODING" "=" "BASE64"
                         ";" "VALUE" "=" "BINARY"
                         ":" binary
                       ) /
                       (
                         ";" "VALUE" "=" "URI"
                         ":" uri
                       )
                       CRLF

     sdataparam  = *(
                      ;
                      ; The following is OPTIONAL for a URI value,
                      ; RECOMMENDED for a TEXT or BINARY value,
                      ; and MUST NOT occur more than once.
                      ;
                      (";" fmttypeparam) /
                      (";" schemaparam) /
                      ;
                      ; The following is OPTIONAL,
                      ; and MAY occur more than once.
                      ;
                      (";" other-param)
                      ;
                   )

   Example:  The following is an example of this property:

     STRUCTURED-DATA;FMTTYPE=application/ld+json;
      SCHEMA="https://schema.org/SportsEvent";
      VALUE=TEXT:{\n
        "@context": "http://schema.org"\,\n
        "@type": "SportsEvent"\,\n
        "homeTeam": "Pittsburgh Pirates"\,\n
        "awayTeam": "San Francisco Giants"\n
      }\n

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8.  New Components

8.1.  Participant

   Component name:  PARTICIPANT

   Purpose:  This component provides information about a participant in
      an event or task.

   Conformance:  This component can be specified multiple times in a
      "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL", or "VFREEBUSY" calendar component.

   Description:  This component provides information about a participant
      in an event, task or poll.  A participant may be an attendee in a
      scheduling sense and the ATTENDEE property may be specified in
      addition.  Participants in events can be individuals or
      organizations, for example a soccer team, the spectators, or the
      musicians.

      The SOURCE property if present may refer to an external definition
      of the participant - such as a vcard.

      The CALENDAR-ADDRESS property if present will provide a cal-
      address.  If an ATTENDEE property has the same value the
      participant is considered schedulable.  The PARTICIPANT component
      can be used to contain additional meta-data related to the
      attendee.

   Format Definition:

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   This component is defined by the following notation:

    participantc  = "BEGIN" ":" "PARTICIPANT" CRLF
                  partprop
                  "END" ":" "PARTICIPANT" CRLF

    partprop      = *(
                  ;
                  ; The following are REQUIRED,
                  ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
                  ;
                  dtstamp  / participanttype / uid /
                  ;
                  ; The following are OPTIONAL,
                  ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
                  ;
                  created / description / geo / last-mod / priority / seq /
                  source / status / calendaraddress / summary / url /
                  ;
                  ; The following are OPTIONAL,
                  ; and MAY occur more than once.
                  ;
                  attach / categories / comment /
                  contact / location / rstatus / related /
                  resources / strucloc / strucres / styleddescription /
                  iana-prop
                  ;
                  )

   Note:  When the PRIORITY is supplied it defines the ordering of
      PARTICIPANT components with the same value for the TYPE parameter.

   Privacy Issues:  When a LOCATION is supplied it provides information
      about the location of a participant at a given time or times.
      This may represent an unacceptable privacy risk for some
      participants.  User agents MUST NOT include this information
      without informing the participant.

   Example:

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   The following is an example of this component.  It contains a SOURCE
   property which points to a VCARD providing information about the
   event participant.

                     BEGIN:PARTICIPANT
                     PARTICIPANT-TYPE:PERFORMER
                     SOURCE:http://dir.example.com/vcard/aviolinist.vcf
                     END:PARTICIPANT

   Example:

   The following is an example for the primary contact.

                     BEGIN: PARTICIPANT
                     SOURCE;FMTTYPE=text/vcard;
                      http://dir.example.com/vcard/contacts/contact1.vcf
                     PARTICIPANT-TYPE:CONTACT
                     DESCRIPTION:A contact:
                     END:PARTICIPANT

8.2.  Schedulable Participant

   A PARTICIPANT component may represent someone or something that needs
   to be scheduled as defined for ATTENDEE in [RFC5545] and [RFC5546].
   The PARTICIPANT component may also represent someone or something
   that is NOT to receive scheduling messages.

   A PARTICIPANT component is defined to be schedulable if

   o  It contains a CALENDAR-ADDRESS property

   o  That property value is the same as the value for an ATTENDEE
      property.

   If both of these conditions apply then the participant defined by the
   value of the URL property will take part in scheduling operations as
   defined in [RFC5546].

   An appropriate use for the PARTICIPANT component in scheduling would
   be to store SEQUENCE and DTSTAMP properties associated with replies
   from each ATTENDEE.  A LOCATION property within the PARTICIPANT
   component might allow better selection of meeting times when
   participants are in different timezones.

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9.  Extended examples

   The following are some examples of the use of the properties defined
   in this specification.  They include additional properties defined in
   [RFC7986] which includes IMAGE.

9.1.  Example 1

   The following is an example of a VEVENT describing a concert.  It
   includes location information for the venue itself as well as
   references to parking and restaurants.

   BEGIN:VEVENT
   CREATED:20170216T145739Z
   DESCRIPTION: Piano Sonata No 3\n
    Piano Sonata No 30
   DTSTAMP:20171116T145739Z
   DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T150000Z
   DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T163000Z
   LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T145739Z
   SUMMARY:Beethoven Piano Sonatas
   UID:123456
   STRUCTURED-LOCATION;LABEL="The venue";VALUE=URI:
    http://dir.example.com/venues/big-hall.vcf
   STRUCTURED-LOCATION;LABEL="Parking for the venue";VALUE=URI:
    http://dir.example.com/venues/parking.vcf
   IMAGE;VALUE=URI;DISPLAY=BADGE;FMTTYPE=image/png:h
    ttp://example.com/images/concert.png
   BEGIN:PARTICIPANT
   PARTICIPANT-TYPE:SPONSOR
   SOURCE:http://example.com/sponsor.vcf
   END:PARTICIPANT
   BEGIN:PARTICIPANT
   PARTICIPANT-TYPE:PERFORMER:
   SOURCE:http://www.example.com/people/johndoe.vcf
   END:PARTICIPANT
   END:VEVENT

9.2.  Example 2

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   The following is an example of a VEVENT describing a meeting.  One of
   the attendees is a remote participant.

   BEGIN:VEVENT
   CREATED:20170216T145739Z
   DTSTAMP:20101116T145739Z
   DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T150000Z
   DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T163000Z
   LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T145739Z
   SUMMARY:Conference plaaning
   UID:123456
   ORGANIZER:mailto:a@example.com
   ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;CN=A:mailto:a@example.com
   ATTENDEE;RSVP=TRUE;CN=B:mailto:b@example.com
   BEGIN:PARTICIPANT
   PARTICIPANT-TYPE:ACTIVE:
   SOURCE:http://www.example.com/people/b.vcf
   LOCATION:At home
   END:PARTICIPANT
   END:VEVENT

10.  Security Considerations

   Applications using these properties need to be aware of the risks
   entailed in using the URIs provided as values.  See [RFC3986] for a
   discussion of the security considerations relating to URIs.

   Security considerations relating to the "ATTACH" property, as
   described in [RFC5545], are applicable to the "STRUCTURED-DATA"
   property.

   When processing HTML content applications need to be aware of the
   many security and privacy issues as described in the IANA
   considerations section of [W3C.REC-html51-20171003]

11.  Privacy Considerations

   Properties with a "URI" value type can expose their users to privacy
   leaks as any network access of the URI data can be tracked.  Clients
   SHOULD NOT automatically download data referenced by the URI without
   explicit instruction from users.  This specification does not
   introduce any additional privacy concerns beyond those described in
   [RFC5545].

   The addition of location information to the new participant component
   provides information about the location of participants at a given
   time.

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12.  IANA Considerations

12.1.  Additional iCalendar Registrations

12.1.1.  Properties

   This document defines the following new iCalendar properties to be
   added to the registry defined in Section 8.2.3 of [RFC5545]:

         +---------------------+---------+----------------------+
         | Property            | Status  | Reference            |
         +---------------------+---------+----------------------+
         | CALENDAR-ADDRESS    | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.2 |
         | PARTICIPANT-TYPE    | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
         | SOURCE              | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 6   |
         | STRUCTURED-DATA     | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.6 |
         | STYLED-DESCRIPTION  | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.3 |
         | STRUCTURED-LOCATION | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.4 |
         | STRUCTURED-RESOURCE | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.5 |
         +---------------------+---------+----------------------+

12.1.2.  Parameters

   This document defines the following new iCalendar property parameters
   to be added to the registry defined in Section 8.2.4 of [RFC5545]:

          +--------------------+---------+----------------------+
          | Property Parameter | Status  | Reference            |
          +--------------------+---------+----------------------+
          | LOCTYPE            | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.1 |
          | ORDER              | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.3 |
          | RESTYPE            | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.2 |
          | SCHEMA             | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.4 |
          +--------------------+---------+----------------------+

12.1.3.  Components

   This document defines the following new iCalendar components to be
   added to the registry defined in Section 8.3.1 of [RFC5545]:

             +-------------+---------+----------------------+
             | Component   | Status  | Reference            |
             +-------------+---------+----------------------+
             | PARTICIPANT | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 8.1 |
             +-------------+---------+----------------------+

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12.2.  New Registration Tables

   This section defines new registration tables for PARTICIPANT-TYPE and
   RESTYPE values.  These tables are updated using the same approaches
   laid down in Section 8.2.1 of [RFC5545]

12.2.1.  Participant Types

   The following table has been used to initialize the participant types
   registry.

          +-------------------+---------+----------------------+
          | Participant Type  | Status  | Reference            |
          +-------------------+---------+----------------------+
          | ACTIVE            | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | INACTIVE          | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | SPONSOR           | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | CONTACT           | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | BOOKING-CONTACT   | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | EMERGENCY-CONTACT | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | PUBLICITY-CONTACT | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | PLANNER-CONTACT   | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | PERFORMER         | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          | SPEAKER           | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 7.1 |
          +-------------------+---------+----------------------+

12.2.2.  Resource Types

   The following table has been used to initialize the resource types
   registry.

       +-------------------------+---------+----------------------+
       | Resource Type           | Status  | Reference            |
       +-------------------------+---------+----------------------+
       | PROJECTOR               | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.2 |
       | ROOM                    | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.2 |
       | REMOTE-CONFERENCE-AUDIO | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.2 |
       | REMOTE-CONFERENCE-VIDEO | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.2 |
       +-------------------------+---------+----------------------+

13.  Acknowledgements

   The author would like to thank Chuck Norris of eventful.com for his
   work which led to the development of this RFC.

   The author would also like to thank the members of CalConnect, The
   Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, the Event Publication

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   technical committee and the following individuals for contributing
   their ideas and support:

   Cyrus Daboo, John Haug, Dan Mendell, Ken Murchison, Scott Otis.

14.  References

14.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC2426]  Dawson, F. and T. Howes, "vCard MIME Directory Profile",
              RFC 2426, DOI 10.17487/RFC2426, September 1998,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2426>.

   [RFC3986]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
              RFC 3986, DOI 10.17487/RFC3986, January 2005,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3986>.

   [RFC4589]  Schulzrinne, H. and H. Tschofenig, "Location Types
              Registry", RFC 4589, DOI 10.17487/RFC4589, July 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4589>.

   [RFC5545]  Desruisseaux, B., Ed., "Internet Calendaring and
              Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)",
              RFC 5545, DOI 10.17487/RFC5545, September 2009,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5545>.

   [RFC5546]  Daboo, C., Ed., "iCalendar Transport-Independent
              Interoperability Protocol (iTIP)", RFC 5546,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5546, December 2009,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5546>.

   [RFC7986]  Daboo, C., "New Properties for iCalendar", RFC 7986,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7986, October 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7986>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

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   [RFC8259]  Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data
              Interchange Format", STD 90, RFC 8259,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8259, December 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8259>.

   [W3C.REC-html51-20171003]
              Faulkner, S., Eicholz, A., Leithead, T., and A. Danilo,
              "HTML 5.1 2nd Edition", World Wide Web Consortium
              Recommendation REC-html51-20171003, October 2017,
              <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-html51-20171003>.

   [W3C.REC-xml-20081126]
              Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, M., Maler, E., and
              F. Yergeau, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth
              Edition)", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-
              xml-20081126, November 2008,
              <http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126>.

14.2.  Informative References

   [iana-property-registry]
              "IANA iCalendar Element Registries",
              <https://www.iana.org/assignments/icalendar/
              icalendar.xhtml>.

Appendix A.  Open issues

   None at the moment

Appendix B.  Change log

   calext-v13 2019-05-26 MD

   o  Respond to various issues.

   calext-v12 2019-02-28 MD

   o  Fix styled-description example.  Respond to various AD issues.
      Some typos.

   calext-v11 2019-02-27 MD

   o  Add DERIVED parameter for styled-description, RELATED parameter
      for structured-location

   calext-v09 2018-08-30 MD

   o  Sorted out inconsistencies in refs to 5546

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   calext-v08 2018-07-06 MD

   o  Add some text for equal ORDER values

   o  Switched scheduleaddress to calendaraddress in participant abnf.
      Also added more properties

   o  Fixed PARTICIPANT abnf

   calext-v04 2017-10-11 MD

   o  Change SCHEDULE-ADDRESS to CALENDAR-ADDRESS

   o  Explicitly broaden scope of SOURCE

   o  Add initial registry for RESTYPE and move new tables into separate
      section.

   o  Fix PARTTYPE/PARTICPANT-TYPE inconsistency

   calext-v03 2017-10-09 MD

   o  Mostly typographical and other minor changes

   calext-v02 2017-04-20 MD

   o  Add SCHEDULE-ADDRESS property

   o  PARTICIPANT becomes a component rather than a property.  Turn many
      of the former parameters into properties.

   o  Use existing ATTENDEE property for scheduling.

   calext-v01 2017-02-18 MD

   o  Change ASSOCIATE back to PARTICIPANT

   o  PARTICIPANT becomes a component rather than a property.  Turn many
      of the former parameters into properties.

   calext-v00 2016-08-??  MD

   o  Name changed - taken up by calext working group

   v06 2016-06-26 MD

   o  Fix up abnf

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   o  change ref to ietf from daboo

   o  take out label spec - use Cyrus spec

   v05 2016-06-14 MD

   o  Remove GROUP and HASH. they can be dealt with elsewhere if desired

   o  Change ORDER to integer >= 1.

   o  Incorporate Structured-Data into this specification.

   v04 2014-02-01 MD

   o  Added updates attribute.

   o  Minor typos.

   o  Resubmitted mostly to refresh the draft.

   v03 2013-03-06 MD

   o  Replace PARTICIPANT with ASSOCIATE plus related changes.

   o  Added section showing modifications to components.

   o  Replace ID with GROUP and modify HASH.

   o  Replace TITLE param with LABEL.

   o  Fixed STYLED-DESCRIPTION in various ways, correct example.

   v02 2012-11-02 MD

   o  Collapse sections with description of properties and the use cases
      into a section with sub-sections.

   o  New section to describe relating properties.

   o  Remove idref and upgrade hash to have the reference

   o  No default value types on properties..

   v01 2012-10-18 MD Many changes.

   o  SPONSOR and STRUCTURED-CONTACT are now in PARTICIPANT

   o  Add a STRUCTURED-RESOURCE property

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   o  STYLED-DESCRIPTION to handle rich text

   o  Much more...

   2011-01-07

   o  Remove MEDIA - it's going in the Cyrus RFC

   o  Rename EXTENDED-... to STRUCTURED-...

   o  Add TYPE parameter to SPONSOR

   v00 2007-10-19 MD Initial version

Author's Address

   Michael Douglass
   Spherical Cow Group
   226 3rd Street
   Troy, NY  12180
   USA

   Email: mdouglass@sphericalcowgroup.com
   URI:   http://sphericalcowgroup.com

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