Calendar subscription upgrades
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Network Working Group                                        M. Douglass
Internet-Draft                                       Spherical Cow Group
Updates: 5545 (if approved)                                  May 5, 2018
Intended status: Standards Track
Expires: November 6, 2018

                     Calendar subscription upgrades
                 draft-douglass-subscription-upgrade-03

Abstract

   This specification introduces an approach to allow subscribers to
   calendar feeds to upgrade to a more performant protocol.

   This specification updates [RFC5545] to add the value DELETED to the
   STATUS property.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Enhanced GET  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.2.  Deletions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.3.  Examples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Changes to the iCalendar specifications . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.1.  Redefined Status property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   4.  Discovering alternative access methods  . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   5.  Link relation subscribe-caldav  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   6.  Link relation subscribe-caldav-auth . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   7.  Link relation subscribe-webdav-sync . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  Link relation subscribe-enhanced-get  . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   9.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   10. Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     11.1.  Link Relation Registrations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   12. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   13. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   Appendix A.  Open issues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   Appendix B.  Change log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11

1.  Introduction

   Currently clients subscribe to calendar feeds as an ics file which is
   often published as a resource accessible using the unofficial
   'webcal' scheme.

   The only available option for updating that resource is the usual
   HTTP polling of cached resources using Etags.

   There is the usual tension between clients wishing to see a timely
   response to changes and servers not wishing to be overloaded by
   frequent requests for possibly large amounts of data.

   This specification introduces an approach whereby clients can
   discover a more performant access method.  Given the location of the
   resource as an ics file, the client can perfom an OPTIONS request on
   the resource and inspect the returned headers which will offer a
   number of alternative access methods.

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   Given that many clients already support CalDAV this provides an easy
   upgrade path for those clients.  CalDAV and DAV subsets are specified
   here to allow lighter weight implementations.

1.1.  Conventions Used in This Document