[Kolab-devel] Kolab XML specification

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:37, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:04, Joon Radley wrote:
> 
> > The problem from my side is that I do not have a SID. I can preserve and
> > set values saved by Kontact, but when a invitation is accepted in Outlook
> > the whole model will fall apart as no SID will be set.
> 
> I guess we need to write up again, why we have that SID and what problem
> it tries to solve.  Can someone point me to the discussion and do the writeup?

http://www.kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-format/2004-October/000471.html

To put it in my own words:
if user A invites user B, and user A can also read user B's folder, then
the invitation (in user A's calendar) and the event in user B's calendar
(which accepted the invitation), will conflict for A. A would have two
"variants" of the same event, in two calendar folders, with the same UID.
To fix that, we now give a different UID to the event in user B's calendar,
but of course it must still be possible to match the two events together
(e.g. when updating the meeting later on). This is why user B's event has
"scheduling-id" set, pointing to the invitation's UID (i.e. the UID of the
event in user A's calendar).

I really thought the discussion happened back then, and that everyone
was OK with this change...

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