[CLSABRT, NEW DRAFT] KEP #9: Storage of configuration and application control information
Gunnar Wrobel
wrobel at horde.org
Mon Sep 12 05:47:35 CEST 2011
Quoting "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve at kolabsys.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> Gunnar asked a "good question" (tm) and in the result I think it
> made sense to
> get back to the drafting table on the issue of values for annotations.
>
> Gunnar's mail and the resulting thread are here:
>
> http://kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-format/2011-September/001445.html
>
> and the resulting updated draft is now available in its usual place:
>
> KEP 9: Storage of configuration and application control information
> http://wiki.kolab.org/User:Greve/Drafts/KEP:9
>
> The most important changes are:
>
> (a) Clarify this is binding for the '/vendor/kolab/' namespace
>
> Third party applications SHOULD conform, but can decide otherwise
> if they have strong reasons. They MUST however document what they
> are doing so there is no undocumented annotation shipped
>
> (b) Clarify explicitly which RFC allows which kinds of values, and wrap
> it into UTF-8 as string or JSON explicit rule, with an emergency
> fallback for Base64 in case we run into issues we cannot foresee.
>
> (c) Rationale for the whole thing added to document the background.
Looks good.
>
> Please take a look and make sure it is consistent and sensible.
>
> Please also help me confirm that
>
> (a) Cyrus & Dovecot *actually* conform to the UTF-8 rule
>
> (b) Our Z-Push backend *actually* encodes to UTF-8 JSON
The problem never was the backend server but our Kolab specific PHP patch.
https://issues.kolab.org/issue2057
https://issues.kolab.org/issue2058
Cheers,
Gunnar
>
> Then hopefully we can re-issue the closing call some time next week.
>
> Best regards,
> Georg
>
>
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>
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