Technical Summary
This specification defines an extension to the calendar access
protocol (CalDAV) to allow attachments associated with iCalendar data
to be stored and managed on the server. The attachments are not stored
inline in the RFC5545 ATTACH property, but instead a link is created
in a managed fashion.
Working Group Summary
Version -00 was created in October 2016. As far as I can see there
have been no major discussions on the calsify mailing list until draft
-01 was uploaded. At this point, multiple vendors have voiced their
support and indicated that they have implemented this draft on their
servers.
The document originates from draft-daboo-caldav-attachments, which was
originally created in 2011. Since then the document has been discussed
and developed within the CalConnect organization among relevant
vendors in the sector.
Some concerns were raised by ARTART reviewer about use of HTTP.
As this specification has multiple interoperable implementations,
the decision was made to downgrade it to Informational specification.
Document Quality
Multiple vendors have indicated that they have already implemented
this draft and successfully tested it with clients. The operations of
this draft are part of the CalDAVTester suite, which is being run by
multiple vendors during CalConnect interoperability testing sessions.
Personnel
The Document Shepard is Philipp Kewisch,
the Responsible Area Director is Alexey Melnikov.