Subject: RE: Subcalendars and inherited content->Retreiving the calendar h iearchy

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:46:18 -0500

John,

About your comment

[...]
* Provide a way to request the tree structure (listing all the
calendars and the relationships among them), after which the CUA
comes back and asks for the data from the calendars.  This has the
advantage that the CUA can pick and choose which calendars it wants
(much as an IMAP or NNTP client can decide which folders/newsgroups
it's interested in).
[...]

Although it was not presented, there are plans to allow CAP CUAs to 
perform searches on a list of calendars. This with your suggestion
to retreive the calendar hiearchy would allow you to what you want.

My personal opinion is that this way of doing is more flexible and 
allows better CUA design than the deep search proposal. They are
both valuable.

André Courtemanche
CS&T

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	John Stracke [mailto:[email-masked]]
		Sent:	Monday, March 15, 1999 5:27 PM
		To:	calsch WG
		Subject:	Subcalendars and inherited content

		A CAP issue raised in the WG meeting today: does a parent
calendar
		inherit the contents of its subcalendars? The current answer
is no; it
		was pointed out that this may complicate the CUAs, because
they have to
		descend down through the tree.  (The CUA can request data
from multiple
		calendars at once; but it apparently has to descend the tree
to know
		which calendars to request.)

		A couple of possibilities that occur to me:

		   * Provide a way to do a deep request on a calendar, one
which
		     descends down the tree to get all the data.
		   * Provide a way to request the tree structure (listing
all the
		     calendars and the relationships among them), after
which the CUA
		     comes back and asks for the data from the calendars.
This has the
		     advantage that the CUA can pick and choose which
calendars it wants
		     (much as an IMAP or NNTP client can decide which
folders/newsgroups
		     it's interested in).

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