[Kolab-devel] General XFB specification available?

[Christian Hilberg]

Hi Jeroen,

Am Donnerstag 08 November 2012, um 15:19:33 schrieb Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems):
> On 2012-11-08 08:12, Christian Hilberg wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 07 November 2012, um 16:59:42 schrieb Christian 
> > Mollekopf:
> >> On Wednesday 07 November 2012 15.39:41 Christian Hilberg wrote:
> >> I don't think there has ever been any specification of XFB, it's 
> >> indeed a
> >> vendor specific extension to iCal, as there is no existing feature 
> >> of iCal
> >> with the same purpose.
> >>
> >> For the Kolab Format 3.x, a specification is drafted here:
> >> http://wiki.kolab.org/Free_Busy#Kolab_Object_Storage_Format
> >
> > This is indeed the closest match so far. Maybe it will be
> > enough to justify my changes to Evolution code, which are
> > already done (but to be published).
> >
> If you're looking for another justification - Microsoft Exchange (and 
> Outlook/OWA) have similar "extended Free/Busy" functionality.
> Also not really an RFC standard though, I believe.

Talking to the developers of the Exchange plugin(s) for Evolution,
it became clear that you are indeed right. M$ has a spec for that
(see [0]). It is m XML format they use, and it includes "Subject"
and "Location" event details in the freebusy response, which
trivially map to "X-SUMMARY" and "X-LOCATION" in the icalendar
vfreebusy object Evolution expects.

Thanks again for your hint, it is very helpful.

Kind regards,

	Christian


[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa563496%28v=exchg.140%29.aspx

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