Non-Gregorian Recurrence Rules in the Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)
draft-ietf-calext-rscale-04

[Ballot comment]
The introduction needs to change per discussion resulting from the Gen-ART review Re: the 3 or 5 RFCs being updated. I assume the sponsoring AD will ensure that change happens.

[Ballot comment]
No objection to the publication of this document, but I want to point out one thing... The Updates meta data identifies three RFCs being updated, but the Introduction lists 5 RFCs being updated.

1. Summary

  Document Shepherd: Donald Eastlake
  Area Director: Barry Leiba

  This document defines how non-Gregorian recurrence rules can be
  specified, for example Chinese New Year, in iCalendar data and with
  CalDAV servers primarily by extending the RRULE property. It is a
  Proposed Standard and updates RFCs 5545 (iCalendar), 6321 (xCal),
  and 7265 (jCal) as indicated at the top of the title page and as
  justified in the Introduction.

2. Review and Consensus

  The document was augmented and improved based on the discussion on
  the calsify mailing list, which the WG uses, of WG Last Call and
  the Shepherd review comments. Augmentations that were made to
  include extensions to xCal and jCal to handle the extended RRULE
  property. A moderate number of knowledgeable people chimed in and
  the document Shepherd believe review has been more than adequate.

  There was significant discussion about how the SKIP property should
  work, as different calendars and even different situations for the same
  calendar would demand different ways of skipping invalid dates/times
  and settling them onto valid ones.  The result in the document represents
  consensus on the least problematic way of dealing with this.

3. Intellectual Property

  There have been no IPR disclosures in connection with this draft
  and all authors have stated that they have no direct, personal
  knowledge of any IPR related to this draft that has not been
  disclosed.

4. Other Points

  This document has no downward references and requires no IANA actions.

IESG/Authors/WG Chairs:

IANA has reviewed draft-ietf-calext-rscale-04, which is currently in Last Call, and has the following comments:

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Subject: Last Call:  (Non-Gregorian Recurrence Rules in iCalendar) to Proposed Standard


The IESG has received a request from the Calendaring Extensions WG
(calext) to consider the following document:
- 'Non-Gregorian Recurrence Rules in iCalendar'
  as Proposed Standard

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
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Abstract


  This document defines extensions to iCalendar (RFC 5545) to support
  use of non-Gregorian recurrence rules.  It also defines how CalDAV
  (RFC 4791) servers and clients can be extended to support these new
  recurrence rules.




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1. Summary

  Document Shepherd: Donald Eastlake
  Area Director: Barry Leiba

  This document defines how non-Gregorian recurrence rules can be
  specified, for example Chinese New Year, in iCalendar data and with
  CalDAV servers primarily by extending the RRULE property. It is a
  Proposed Standard and updates RFCs 5545 (iCalendar), 6321 (xCal),
  and 7265 (jCal) as indicated at the top of the title page and as
  justified in the Introduction.

2. Review and Consensus

  The document was augmented and improved based on the discussion on
  the calsify mailing list, which the WG uses, of WG Last Call and
  the Shepherd review comments. Augmentations that were made to
  include extensions to xCal and jCal to handle the extended RRULE
  property. A moderate number of knowledgeable people chimed in and
  the document Shepherd believe review has been more than adequate.

3. Intellectual Property

  There have been no IPR disclosures in connection with this draft
  and all authors have stated that they have no direct, personal
  knowledge of any IPR related to this draft that has not been
  disclosed.

4. Other Points

  This document has no downward references and requires no IANA actions.