Non-Gregorian Recurrence Rules in iCalendar
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draft-ietf-calext-rscale-02
Network Working Group C. Daboo
Internet-Draft Apple Inc.
Updates: 4791, 5545, 5546, 6321, 7265 G. Yakushev
(if approved) Google Inc.
Intended status: Standards Track December 10, 2014
Expires: June 13, 2015
Non-Gregorian Recurrence Rules in iCalendar
draft-ietf-calext-rscale-02
Abstract
This document defines how non-Gregorian recurrence rules can be
specified and used in iCalendar data, and with CalDAV servers.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Extended RRULE Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Handling Leap Months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Registering Calendar Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6. Use with iTIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7. Use with xCal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8. Use with jCal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. Use with CalDAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.1. CALDAV:supported-rscale-set Property . . . . . . . . . . 13
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
13. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
13.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
13.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Appendix A. Change History (To be removed by RFC Editor before
publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Appendix B. xCal RELAX NG schema update . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1. Introduction
The iCalendar [RFC5545] data format is in widespread use to represent
calendar data. iCalendar represents dates and times using the
Gregorian calendar system only. It does provide a way to use non-
Gregorian calendar systems via a "CALSCALE" property, but this has
never been used. However, there is a need to support at least non-
Gregorian recurrence patterns to cover anniversaries, and many local,
religious, or civil holidays based on non-Gregorian dates.
There are several disadvantages to using the existing "CALSCALE"
property in iCalendar for implementing non-Gregorian calendars:
1. The "CALSCALE" property exists in the top-level "VCALENDAR"
objects and thus applies to all components within that object.
In today's multi-cultural society, that restricts the ability to
mix events from different calendar systems within the same
iCalendar object. e.g., it would prevent having both the
Gregorian New Year and Chinese New Year in the same iCalendar
object.
2. Many countries observe daylight savings time, encoded in
iCalendar using the "VTIMEZONE" component. Time zone and
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daylight saving time rules are always specified via Gregorian
calendar based recurrence rules (e.g., "the 3rd Sunday in
March"). This is problematic for non-Gregorian uses of
"CALSCALE" which would by default also apply to the dates and
rules used in the "VTIMEZONE" components in the corresponding
iCalendar object.
This specification solves these issues by allowing the "CALSCALE" to
remain set to Gregorian, but re-defining the recurrence rule property
"RRULE" to accept new items including one that allows non-Gregorian
calendar systems to be used. With this, all the date, time and
period values in the iCalendar object would remain specified using
the Gregorian calendar system, but repeating patterns in other
calendar systems could be defined. It is then up to calendar user
agents and servers to map between Gregorian and non-Gregorian
calendar systems in order to expand out recurrence instances.
This specification does not itself define calendar systems, rather it
utilizes the calendar system registry defined by the Unicode
Consortium in their CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project
[UNICODE.CLDR], as implemented in the Unicode (ICU) Library
[UNICODE.ICU].
2. Conventions Used in This Document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
[RFC2119].
The notation used in this memo is the ABNF notation of [RFC5234] as
used by iCalendar [RFC5545]. Any syntax elements shown below that
are not explicitly defined in this specification come from iCalendar
[RFC5545], iTIP [RFC5546], and CalDAV [RFC4791].
When XML element types in the namespaces "DAV:" and
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav" are referenced in this document
outside of the context of an XML fragment, the string "DAV:" and
"CALDAV:" will be prefixed to the element type names respectively.
When a Gregorian calendar date value is shown in text, it will use
the format "YYYYMMDD", where "YYYY" is the 4-digit year, "MM" the
2-digit month, and "DD" the 2-digit day (this is the same format used
in iCalendar [RFC5545]). The Chinese calendar will be used as an
example of a non-Gregorian calendar for illustrative purposes. When
a Chinese calendar date value is shown in text, it will use the
format "{C}YYYYMM[L]DD" - i.e., the same format as Gregorian but with
a "{C}" prefix, and an optional "L" character after the month element
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to indicate a leap month. Similarly, {E} and {H} are used in other
examples as prefixes for Ethiopic (Amete Mihret) and Hebrew dates,
respectively. Note that the Chinese calendar years shown in the
examples are based on the Unicode (ICU) [UNICODE.ICU] library's
Chinese calendar epoch. Whilst there are several different Chinese
calendar epochs in common use, the choice of one over another does
not impact the actual calculation of the Gregorian equivalent dates,
provided conversion is always done using the same epoch.
3. Overview
In the Gregorian calendar system, each year is composed of a fixed
number of months (12), with each month having a fixed number of days
(between 30 and 31), except for the second month (February) which
contains either 28 days, or 29 days (in a leap year). Weeks are
composed of 7 days, with day names Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Years can have either 365 or
366 days (the latter in a leap year). The number of whole weeks in a
year is 52 (though the [ISO.8601.2004] week numbering scheme used by
iCalendar [RFC5545] can have a numeric count up to 53).
In iCalendar, the "RECUR" value type defines various fields used to
express a recurrence pattern, and those fields are given limits based
on those of the Gregorian calendar system. Since other calendar
systems can have different limits and other behaviors that need to be
accounted for, the maximum values for the elements in the "RECUR"
value are not covered by this specification.
To generate a set of recurring instances in a non-Gregorian calendar
system, the following principles are used:
1. iCalendar data continues to use the "GREGORIAN" calendar system,
so all "DATE", "DATE-TIME" and "PERIOD" values continue to use
the Gregorian format and limits.
2. The "RRULE" property is extended to include an "RSCALE" element
in its value that specifies the calendar system to use for the
recurrence pattern. The existing elements of the "RRULE" value
type are used, but modified to support different upper limits,
based on the "RSCALE" value, as well as a modification to month
numbers to allow a leap month to be specified. Existing
requirements for the use of "RRULE" all still apply (e.g., the
"RRULE" has to match the "DTSTART" value of the master instance).
Other recurrence properties such as "RECURRENCE-ID", "RDATE" and
"EXDATE" continue to use the Gregorian date format as "CALSCALE"
is unchanged.
When generating instances, the following procedure might be used:
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1. Convert the "DTSTART" property value of the master recurring
component into the date and time components for the calendar
system specified by the "RSCALE" element in the "RRULE" value.
This provides the "seed" value for generating subsequent
recurrence instances.
2. Iteratively generate instances using the "RRULE" value applied to
the year, month, and day components of the date in the new
calendar system.
3. For each generated instance, convert the date values back from
the non-Gregorian form into Gregorian and use those values for
other properties such as "RECURRENCE-ID".
Consider the following example for an event representing the Chinese
New Year:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130210
RRULE:RSCALE=CHINESE;FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:Chinese New Year
To generate instances, first the "DTSTART" value "20130210" is
converted into the Chinese calendar system giving "{C}46500101".
Next, the year component is incremented by one to give "{C}46510101",
and that is then converted back into Gregorian as "20140131".
Additional instances are generated by iteratively increasing the year
component in the Chinese date value and converting back to Gregorian.
4. Extended RRULE Property
This specification extends the existing "RRULE" iCalendar property
value to include a new "RSCALE" element that can be used to indicate
the calendar system used for generating the recurrence pattern.
When "RSCALE" is present, the other changes to "RRULE" are:
1. Elements that include numeric values (e.g., "BYYEARDAY") have
numeric ranges defined by the "RSCALE" value (i.e., in some
calendar systems there might be more than 366 days in a year).
2. Month numbers can include an "L" suffix to indicate that the
specified month is a leap month in the corresponding calendar
system.
3. A "SKIP" element is added to define how "missing" instances are
handled. e.g., if a yearly recurring event starts in a leap
month, the "SKIP" element determines whether instances in non-
leap years are ignored ("SKIP" set to "YES"), appear in the
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preceding regular month ("SKIP" set to "BACKWARD" - the default
when "RSCALE" is present), or appear in the following regular
month ("SKIP" set to "FORWARD"). This applies for both leap days
and leap months. The "SKIP" processing is done after all rule
elements, other than "BYSETPOS", "COUNT" and "UNTIL", have been
processed.
The syntax for the "RECUR" value is modified in the following
fashion:
recur-rule-part /= ("RSCALE" "=" rscale)
/ ("SKIP" "=" skip)
rscale = (iana-token ; A CLDR-registered calendar system
; name.
/ x-name) ; A non-standard, experimental
; calendar system name.
; Names are case-insensitive,
; but uppercase values are preferred.
skip = ("YES" / "BACKWARD" / "FORWARD")
; Optional, with default value "BACKWARD",
; and MUST only be present if "RSCALE" is present.
monthnum = 1*2DIGIT ["L"]
; Existing element modified to include a leap
; month indicator suffix.
4.1. Handling Leap Months
Leap months can occur in different calendar systems. For such
calendar systems the following rules are applied for "identifying"
months:
1. Numeric values 1 through N are used to identify regular, non-
leap, months (where N is the number of months in a regular, non-
leap, year).
2. The suffix "L" is added to the regular month number to indicate a
leap month which follows the regular month. e.g., "5L" is a leap
month that follows the 5th regular month in the year.
Care has to be taken when mapping the month identifiers used here
with those of any underlying calendar system library being used. In
particular, the Hebrew calendar system used by Unicode (ICU)
[UNICODE.ICU] uses a month number scheme of 1 through 13, with month
6 being the leap month, and in non-leap years, month 6 is skipped.
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In iCalendar, this would map to months 1 through 12 with "5L" as the
leap month.
4.2. Examples
4.2.1. Chinese New Year
Consider the following set of iCalendar properties:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130210
RRULE:RSCALE=CHINESE;FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:Chinese New Year
These define a recurring event for the Chinese New Year, with the
first instance the one in Gregorian year 2013.
The Chinese date corresponding to the first instance is {C}46500101.
The table below shows the initial instance, and the next four, each
of which is determined by adding the appropriate amount to the year
component of the Chinese date. Also shown is the conversion back to
the Gregorian date:
+--------------+--------------------------+
| Chinese Date | Gregorian Date |
+--------------+--------------------------+
| {C}46500101 | 20130210 - DTSTART value |
| {C}46510101 | 20140131 |
| {C}46520101 | 20150219 |
| {C}46530101 | 20160208 |
| {C}46540101 | 20170128 |
+--------------+--------------------------+
4.2.2. Ethiopic 13th Month
Consider the following set of iCalendar properties:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:201300906
RRULE:RSCALE=ETHIOPIC;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=13
SUMMARY:First day of 13th month
These define a recurring event for the first day of the 13th month,
with the first instance the one in Gregorian year 2013.
The Ethiopic date corresponding to the first instance is {E}20051301.
The table below shows the initial instance, and the next four, each
of which is determined by adding the appropriate amount to the year
component of the Ethiopic date. Also shown is the conversion back to
the Gregorian date:
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+---------------+--------------------------+
| Ethiopic Date | Gregorian Date |
+---------------+--------------------------+
| {E}20051301 | 20130906 - DTSTART value |
| {E}20061301 | 20140906 |
| {E}20071301 | 20150906 |
| {E}20081301 | 20160906 |
| {E}20091301 | 20170906 |
+---------------+--------------------------+
Note that in this example, the value of the "BYMONTH" component in
the "RRULE" matches the Ethiopic month value and not the Gregorian
month.
4.2.3. Hebrew anniversary starting in a leap month
Consider the following set of iCalendar properties:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140208
RRULE:RSCALE=HEBREW;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=5L;BYMONTHDAY=8;SKIP=FORWARD
SUMMARY:Anniversary
These define a recurring event for the 8th day of the Hebrew month of
Adar I (the leap month identified by "5L"), with the first instance
the one in Gregorian year 2014.
The Hebrew date corresponding to the first instance is {H}577405L08,
which is a leap month in year 5774. The table below shows the
initial instance, and the next four, each of which is determined by
adding the appropriate amount to the year component of the Hebrew
date, taking into account that only year 5776 is a leap year. Thus
in other years the Hebrew month component is adjusted forward to
month 6. Also shown is the conversion back to the Gregorian date:
+--------------+--------------------------+
| Hebrew Date | Gregorian Date |
+--------------+--------------------------+
| {H}577405L08 | 20140208 - DTSTART value |
| {H}57750608 | 20150227 |
| {H}577605L08 | 20160217 |
| {H}57770608 | 20170306 |
| {H}57780608 | 20180223 |
+--------------+--------------------------+
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4.2.4. Gregorian leap day with SKIP
Consider the following set of iCalendar properties:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120229
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:Anniversary
These define a recurring event for the 29th February, 2012 in the
standard iCalendar calendar scale - Gregorian. The standard
iCalendar behavior is that non-existent dates in a recurrence set are
ignored. Thus the properties above would only generate instances in
leap years (2016, 2020, etc), which is likely not what users expect.
The new "RSCALE" option defined by this specification provides the
"SKIP" element which can be used to "fill in" the missing instances
in an appropriate fashion. The set of iCalendar properties below do
that:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120229
RRULE:RSCALE=GREGORIAN;FREQ=YEARLY;SKIP=FORWARD
SUMMARY:Anniversary
With these properties, the "missing" instances in non-leap year now
appear on the 1st March in those years:
+-------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Instances (with SKIP=FORWARD) | Instances (without RSCALE) |
+-------------------------------+----------------------------+
| 20120229 | 20120229 - DTSTART value |
| 20130301 | |
| 20140301 | |
| 20150301 | |
| 20160229 | 20160229 |
| 20170301 | |
+-------------------------------+----------------------------+
5. Registering Calendar Systems
This specification uses the Unicode Consortium's registry of calendar
systems [UNICODE.CLDR] to define valid values for the "RSCALE"
element of an "RRULE". Note that the underscore character "_" is
never used in CLDR-based calendar system names. New values can be
added to this registry following Unicode Consortium rules. It is
expected that many implementations of non-Gregorian calendars will
use software libraries provided by Unicode (ICU) [UNICODE.ICU], and
hence it makes sense to re-use their registry rather than creating a
new one. For consistency, when used, the "RSCALE" values SHOULD be
uppercased.
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CLDR supports the use of "alias" values as alternative names for
specific calendar systems. These alias values MUST be treated as
valid "RSCALE" element values.
When using the CLDR data, calendar agents SHOULD take into account
the "deprecated" value and use the alternative "preferred" calendar
system. In particular, the "islamicc" calendar system is considered
deprecated in favor of the "islamic-civil" calendar system.
6. Use with iTIP
iTIP [RFC5546] defines how iCalendar data can be sent between
calendar user agents to schedule calendar components between calendar
users. It is often not possible to know the capabilities of a
calendar user agent to which an iTIP message is being sent, but iTIP
defines fallback behavior in such cases.
For calendar user agents that do not support the "RSCALE" element,
the following can occur when iTIP messages containing an "RSCALE"
element are received:
The receiving calendar user agent can reject the entire iTIP
message and return an iTIP reply with a "REQUEST-STATUS" property
set to the "3.1" status code (as per Section 3.6.14 of [RFC5546]).
The receiving calendar user agent can fallback to a non-recurring
behavior for the calendar component (effectively ignoring the
"RRULE" property) and return an iTIP reply with a "REQUEST-STATUS"
property set to the "2.3", "2.5", "2.8", or "2.10" status codes
(as per Sections 3.6.3, 3.6.6, 3.6.9, or 3.6.11, respectively, of
[RFC5546]).
For calendar user agents that support the "RSCALE" element but do not
support the calendar system specified by the "RSCALE" element value,
the following can occur:
the iTIP message SHOULD be rejected, returning a "REQUEST-STATUS"
property set to the "3.1" status code (as per Section 3.6.14 of
[RFC5546]).
if the iTIP message is accepted and the calendar component treated
as non-recurring, an iTIP reply with a "REQUEST-STATUS" property
set to the "2.8" or "2.10" status codes (as per Sections 3.6.9 or
3.6.11, respectively, of [RFC5546]) SHOULD be returned.
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7. Use with xCal
xCal [RFC6321] defines how iCalendar data is represented in XML.
This specification extends the <recur> XML element in Section 3.6.10
of [RFC6321] in the following manner:
1. A new <rscale> XML element is defined as a child element of
<recur>. The content of this element MUST be a string whose
value is the "RSCALE" element value of the "RRULE", with case
preserved.
2. A new <skip> XML element is defined as a child element of
<recur>. The content of this element MUST be a string whose
value is the "SKIP" element value of the "RRULE", with case
preserved.
3. The "bymonth" XML element is redefined to support either numeric
or string values as its content (as per Section 4.1).
Extensions to the RELAX NG schema in Appendix A of [RFC6321] are
defined in Appendix B.
Example: the iCalendar "RRULE" property:
RRULE:RSCALE=GREGORIAN;FREQ=YEARLY;SKIP=FORWARD
would be represented in XML as:
<rrule>
<recur>
<rscale>GREGORIAN</rscale>
<freq>YEARLY</freq>
<skip>FORWARD</skip>
</recur>
</rrule>
8. Use with jCal
jCal [RFC7265] defines how iCalendar data is represented in JSON.
This specification extends the "recur" JSON object defined in
Section 3.6.10 of [RFC7265] in the following manner:
1. A new "rscale" child member is defined. This MUST be a string
whose value is the "RSCALE" element value of the "RRULE", with
case preserved.
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2. A new "skip" child member is defined. This MUST be a string
whose value is the "SKIP" element value of the "RRULE", with case
preserved.
3. The "bymonth" child member is redefined to support either numeric
or string values. If the "BYMONTH" element value is an integer,
then a numeric JSON value MUST be used. If the "BYMONTH" element
value is an integer with the "L" suffix (as per Section 4.1),
then a JSON string value MUST be used.
Example: the iCalendar "RRULE" property:
RRULE:RSCALE=GREGORIAN;FREQ=YEARLY;SKIP=FORWARD
would be represented in JSON as:
[
"rrule",
{},
"recur",
{
"rscale": "GREGORIAN",
"freq": "YEARLY",
"skip": "FORWARD"
}
]
9. Use with CalDAV
The CalDAV [RFC4791] calendar access protocol allows clients and
servers to exchange iCalendar data. In addition, CalDAV clients are
able to query calendar data stored on the server, including time-
based queries. Since an "RSCALE" element value determines the time
ranges for recurring instances in a calendar component, CalDAV
servers need to support it to interoperate with clients also using
the "RSCALE" element.
A CalDAV server advertises a CALDAV:supported-rscale-set WebDAV
property on calendar home or calendar collections if it supports use
of "RSCALE" element as described in this specification. The server
can advertise a specific set of supported calendar systems by
including one or more CALDAV:supported-rscale XML elements within the
CALDAV:supported-rscale-set XML element. If no CALDAV:supported-
rscale XML elements are included in the WebDAV property, then clients
can try any calendar system value, but need to be prepared for a
failure when attempting to store the calendar data.
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Clients MUST NOT attempt to store iCalendar data containing "RSCALE"
elements if the CALDAV:supported-rscale-set WebDAV property is not
advertised by the server.
The server SHOULD return an HTTP 403 response with a DAV:error
element containing a CALDAV:supported-rscale XML element, if a client
attempts to store iCalendar data with an "RSCALE" element value not
supported by the server.
It is possible for an "RSCALE" value to be present in calendar data
on the server being accessed by a client that does not support an
"RSCALE" element or its specified value. It is expected that
existing clients, unaware of "RSCALE", will fail gracefully by
ignoring the calendar component, whilst still processing other
calendar data on the server.
9.1. CALDAV:supported-rscale-set Property
Name: supported-rscale-set
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Enumerates the set of supported iCalendar "RSCALE" element
values supported by the server.
Protected: This property MUST be protected and SHOULD NOT be
returned by a PROPFIND allprop request (as defined in Section 14.2
of [RFC4918]).
Description: See above.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT supported-rscale-set (supported-rscale*) >
<!ELEMENT supported-rscale (#PCDATA)>
<!-- PCDATA value: string - case-insensitive but
uppercase preferred -->
Example:
<C:supported-rscale-set
xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<C:supported-rscale>GREGORIAN</C:supported-rscale>
<C:supported-rscale>CHINESE</C:supported-rscale>
<C:supported-rscale>ISLAMIC-CIVIL</C:supported-rscale>
<C:supported-rscale>HEBREW</C:supported-rscale>
<C:supported-rscale>ETHIOPIC</C:supported-rscale>
</C:supported-rscale-set>
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10. Security Considerations
This specification does not introduce any addition security concerns
beyond those described in [RFC5545], [RFC5546], and [RFC4791].
11. IANA Considerations
This document requires no IANA actions.
12. Acknowledgments
Thanks to the following for feedback: Mark Davis, Mike Douglass,
Peter Edberg, Marten Gajda, Philipp Kewisch, Ken Murchison, Arnaud
Quillaud, Dave Thewlis, and Umaoka Yoshito.
This specification originated from work at the Calendaring and
Scheduling Consortium, which has helped with the development and
testing of implementations.
13. References
13.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC4791] Daboo, C., Desruisseaux, B., and L. Dusseault,
"Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)", RFC 4791,
March 2007.
[RFC4918] Dusseault, L., "HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed
Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 4918, June 2007.
[RFC5234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.
[RFC5545] Desruisseaux, B., "Internet Calendaring and Scheduling
Core Object Specification (iCalendar)", RFC 5545,
September 2009.
[RFC5546] Daboo, C., "iCalendar Transport-Independent
Interoperability Protocol (iTIP)", RFC 5546, December
2009.
[RFC6321] Daboo, C., Douglass, M., and S. Lees, "xCal: The XML
Format for iCalendar", RFC 6321, August 2011.
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[RFC7265] Kewisch, P., Daboo, C., and M. Douglass, "jCal: The JSON
Format for iCalendar", RFC 7265, May 2014.
[UNICODE.CLDR]
"CLDR calendar.xml Data", Unicode Consortium CLDR,
<http://www.unicode.org/repos/cldr/tags/latest/common/
bcp47/calendar.xml>.
13.2. Informative References
[ISO.8601.2004]
International Organization for Standardization, "Data
elements and interchange formats - Information interchange
- Representation of dates and times", ISO Standard 8601,
2004.
[UNICODE.ICU]
"International Components for Unicode", Unicode Consortium
ICU, April 2014, <http://site.icu-project.org>.
Appendix A. Change History (To be removed by RFC Editor before
publication)
Changes in draft-ietf-calext-rscale-02:
1. Added xCal and jCal changes sections and relax NG schema
appendix.
2. Added ICU reference at the end of Section 1.
Changes in draft-ietf-calext-rscale-01:
1. Editorial changes/fixes per document shepherd review.
2. Switched CLDR reference to "tags/latest".
Changes in draft-ietf-calext-rscale-00:
1. Updated some references.
2. Editorial changes/fixes.
Changes in draft-daboo-icalendar-rscale-04:
1. Always use "L" suffix for leap months, even for Hebrew calendar.
2. Remove negative month numbers to go back to base 5545 definition.
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3. Added example for Gregorian leap day with skip.
4. Clarify that RSCALE names are case insensitive, but with upper
case preferred.
5. Clarify that BYSETPOS processing is done after SKIP.
6. Remove Islamic example in favor of Ethiopic example which shows a
13th month.
Changes in draft-daboo-icalendar-rscale-03:
1. Added details about handling RSCALE in iTIP.
2. Added details about handling RSCALE in CalDAV.
3. Fixed examples to use ICU Chinese epoch and added text describing
why that is not an issue for actual recurrence calculations.
Changes in draft-daboo-icalendar-rscale-02:
1. Fixed some incorrect dates in examples.
2. Clarified use of CLDR and alias, deprecated, preferred
attributes.
3. Clarified when SKIP processing occurs.
Changes in draft-daboo-icalendar-rscale-01:
1. Removed requirement that RSCALE be the first item in an RRULE.
2. Added BYLEAPMONTH element and removed BYMONTH "L" suffix.
3. Removed Open Issues.
Appendix B. xCal RELAX NG schema update
The following changes are made to the RELAX NG schema defined in
Appendix A of [RFC6321].
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# 3.3.10 RECUR
# This extension adds type-rscale and type-skip,
# and modifies type-bymonth
value-recur = element recur {
type-rscale?,
type-freq,
(type-until | type-count)?,
element interval {
xsd:positiveInteger
}?,
type-bysecond*,
type-byminute*,
type-byhour*,
type-byday*,
type-bymonthday*,
type-byyearday*,
type-byweekno*,
type-bymonth*,
type-bysetpos*,
element wkst { type-weekday }?,
type-skip?
}
type-rscale = element rscale {
xsd:string
}
type-bymonth = element bymonth {
xsd:positiveInteger |
xsd:string
}
type-skip = element skip {
"YES" |
"BACKWARD" |
"FORWARD"
}
Authors' Addresses
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Cyrus Daboo
Apple Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
USA
Email: cyrus@daboo.name
URI: http://www.apple.com/
Gregory Yakushev
Google Inc.
Brandschenkestrasse 100
8002 Zurich
Switzerland
Email: yakushev@google.com
URI: http://www.google.com/
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