Network Working Group C. Daboo
Internet-Draft Apple Inc.
Intended status: Standards Track B. Desruisseaux
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November 3, 2008
CalDAV Scheduling Extensions to WebDAV
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Abstract
This document defines extensions to the CalDAV calendar-access
feature to specify a standard way of performing scheduling
transactions with iCalendar-based calendar components. This document
defines the "calendar-auto-schedule" feature of CalDAV.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Level of Support for iTIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. XML Namespaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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1.4. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.5. Open Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. CalDAV Scheduling Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Scheduling Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. Scheduling Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1.1. Scheduling Outbox Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1.2. Scheduling Inbox Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2. Automatic Scheduling Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2.2. Identifying Scheduling Object Resources . . . . . . . 12
3.2.3. Handling Scheduling Object Resources . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2.3.1. Organizer Scheduling Object Resources . . . . . . 13
3.2.3.2. Attendee Scheduling Object Resources . . . . . . . 16
3.2.3.3. HTTP Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.3. Processing of incoming scheduling messages . . . . . . . . 20
3.3.1. Automatic processing for the Organizer . . . . . . . . 21
3.3.1.1. Processing an Attendee reply . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.3.1.2. Processing an Attendee refresh . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.3.2. Automatic processing for the Attendee . . . . . . . . 21
3.3.2.1. Processing a new scheduling message . . . . . . . 22
3.3.2.2. Processing a scheduling message update . . . . . . 22
3.3.3. Processing by the client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.4. Explicit Scheduling Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.5. Other Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.5.1. Handling recurring items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.5.1.1. Restricting what is sent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.5.1.2. Attendee overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.5.2. Handling the Default Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.5.3. DTSTAMP and SEQUENCE properties . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.5.4. Schedule Status Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.5.5. Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.5.6. Organizer is an Attendee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4. New iCalendar Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.1. Schedule Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.2. Schedule Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5. New WebDAV Request Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.1. Schedule-Reply Request Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6. New WebDAV Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.1. CALDAV:schedule-calendar-transp Property . . . . . . . . . 29
6.2. CALDAV:schedule-default-calendar-URL Property . . . . . . 30
6.3. CALDAV:schedule-state Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7. New Preconditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.1. Additional Preconditions for PUT, COPY and MOVE . . . . . 32
7.2. Additional Preconditions for PUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.3. Additional Precondition for DELETE . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.4. Additional Precondition for PROPPATCH . . . . . . . . . . 33
8. Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8.1. POST Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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8.1.1. Handling a REFRESH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8.1.2. Response to a POST request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8.1.3. Status Codes for use with the POST method . . . . . . 36
8.1.4. Example - Simple meeting invitation refresh . . . . . 37
8.1.5. Example - Freebusy lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
8.2. Retrieving incoming scheduling messages . . . . . . . . . 39
9. Scheduling Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.1. Scheduling Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.1.1. Privileges on Scheduling Inbox Collections . . . . . . 40
9.1.1.1. CALDAV:schedule-deliver Privilege . . . . . . . . 40
9.1.1.2. CALDAV:schedule-deliver-invite Privilege . . . . . 40
9.1.1.3. CALDAV:schedule-deliver-reply Privilege . . . . . 41
9.1.1.4. CALDAV:schedule-query-freebusy Privilege . . . . . 41
9.1.2. Privileges on Scheduling Outbox Collections . . . . . 41
9.1.2.1. CALDAV:schedule-send Privilege . . . . . . . . . . 41
9.1.2.2. CALDAV:schedule-send-invite Privilege . . . . . . 41
9.1.2.3. CALDAV:schedule-send-reply Privilege . . . . . . . 42
9.1.2.4. CALDAV:schedule-send-freebusy Privilege . . . . . 42
9.1.3. Aggregation of Scheduling Privileges . . . . . . . . . 42
9.2. Additional Principal Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.2.1. CALDAV:schedule-inbox-URL Property . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.2.2. CALDAV:schedule-outbox-URL Property . . . . . . . . . 43
9.2.3. CALDAV:calendar-user-address-set Property . . . . . . 44
9.2.4. CALDAV:calendar-user-type Property . . . . . . . . . . 45
10. Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
11. XML Element Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
11.1. CALDAV:schedule-response XML Element . . . . . . . . . . . 46
11.2. CALDAV:response XML Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
11.3. CALDAV:recipient XML Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
11.4. CALDAV:request-status XML Element . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
12.1. Verifying scheduling requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
13. IANA Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
13.1. HTTP header registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
13.1.1. Schedule-Reply Request Header Registration . . . . . . 49
13.2. iCalendar Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
14. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
15. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
15.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
15.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Appendix A. Scheduling Privileges Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
A.1. Scheduling Inbox Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
A.2. Scheduling Outbox Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Appendix B. Changes (to be removed prior to publication as an
RFC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
B.1. Changes in -06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
B.2. Changes in -05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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1. Introduction
This document specifies an extension to the CalDAV calendar-access
feature [RFC4791] to enable scheduling of iCalendar-based [RFC2445]
calendar components between calendar users. This extension leverages
the scheduling methods defined in the iCalendar Transport-independent
Interoperability Protocol iTIP [RFC2446] to permit calendar users to
perform scheduling transactions such as schedule, reschedule, respond
to scheduling request or cancel scheduled calendar components, as
well as search for busy time information.
iTIP [RFC2446] outlines a model where calendar users exchange
scheduling messages with one another. Often times, calendar user
agents are made responsible for generating and sending scheduling
messages as well as processing incoming scheduling messages. This
approach yields a number of problems, including:
o The handling of incoming scheduling messages and the updates to
calendars imposed by these messages only occurs when calendar user
agents are active.
o For most updates to a calendar, calendar user agents need to
address a separate scheduling message to the Organizer or the
Attendees.
o Due to the update latency it is possible for calendars of
different calendar users to reflect different, inaccurate states.
This specification is using an alternative approach where the server
is made responsible for sending most scheduling messages and
processing most incoming scheduling messages. This approach frees
the calendar user agents from the delivery and processing of most
scheduling messages and ensures a better consistency of the data in
the users' calendars on the server. The simple operation of
creating, modifying or deleting a calendar object resource in a
calendar is enough to trigger the CalDAV server to deliver
appropriate scheduling messages to the calendar users.
Discussion of this Internet-Draft is taking place on the mailing list
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-caldav>.
1.1. Level of Support for iTIP
While the scheduling features described in this specification are
based on iTIP [RFC2446], some of its more complex features have
deliberately not been implemented, in order to keep this
specification simple. In particular, the following iTIP [RFC2446]
features are not supported:
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o Sending scheduling messages with the METHODs "PUBLISH", "COUNTER"
and "DECLINE-COUNTER"
o Delegating an Event to another calendar user
o Changing the Organizer
o Forwarding to an uninvited calendar user
The goal of this specification is to provide the essential scheduling
features needed, and it is anticipated that future extensions will be
developed to address the more complex features if the demand arises.
1.2. XML Namespaces
Definitions of XML elements in this document use XML element type
declarations (as found in XML Document Type Declarations), described
in Section 3.2 of [W3C.REC-xml-20060816].
The namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav" is reserved for the XML
elements defined in this specification, or in other Standards Track
IETF RFCs written to extend CalDAV. It MUST NOT be used for
proprietary extensions.
Note that the XML declarations used in this document are incomplete,
in that they do not include namespace information. Thus, the reader
MUST NOT use these declarations as the only way to create valid
CalDAV properties or to validate CalDAV XML element types. Some of
the declarations refer to XML elements defined by WebDAV which use
the "DAV:" namespace. Wherever such elements appear, they are
explicitly given the "DAV:" prefix to help avoid confusion.
Additionally, some of the elements used here are defined in CalDAV
[RFC4791].
Also note that some CalDAV XML element names are identical to WebDAV
XML element names, though their namespace differs. Care MUST be
taken not to confuse the two sets of names.
1.3. Notational Conventions
The augmented BNF used by this document to describe protocol elements
is described in Section 2.1 of [RFC2616]. Because this augmented BNF
uses the basic production rules provided in Section 2.2 of [RFC2616],
those rules apply to this document as well.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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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 types respectively.
1.4. Terminology
Calendar User Agent (CUA): Software with which the calendar user
communicates with a calendar service or local calendar store to
access calendar information.
Calendar collection: Same as [RFC4791].
Calendar object resource: Same as [RFC4791].
Scheduling object resource: A calendar object resource contained in
a calendar collection for which the server will take care of
sending scheduling messages on behalf of the owner of the calendar
collection.
Organizer scheduling object resource: A scheduling object resource
owned by an Organizer.
Attendee scheduling object resource: A scheduling object resource
owned by an Attendee.
Automatic scheduling transaction: Add, change or remove operations
on a scheduling object resource for which the server will deliver
scheduling messages to other users.
Explicit scheduling request: Scheduling requests targeted at a
scheduling Outbox collection.
Scheduling message: A calendar object resource that describes a
scheduling transaction such as publish, schedule, reschedule,
respond to scheduling requests, or cancel calendar components.
Scheduling Outbox collection: A resource at which explicit
scheduling requests are targeted.
Scheduling Inbox collection: A collection in which a recipient's
incoming scheduling messages are delivered.
1.5. Open Issues
1. Need to discuss in a limited fashion how group calendar user
addresses might be handled.
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2. Need a mechanism to allow clients to be able to do "weak" If-
Match updates to calendar data without the "strong" ETag
behavior.
2. CalDAV Scheduling Support
In order for a server to support the scheduling extensions defined in
this specification it MUST support all of the CalDAV calendar-access
feature [RFC4791].
A server that supports the features described in this document MUST
include "calendar-auto-schedule" as a field in the DAV response
header from an OPTIONS request on any resource that supports any
scheduling actions, properties, privileges or methods.
>> Request <<
OPTIONS /lisa/calendar/outbox/ HTTP/1.1
Host: cal.example.com
>> Response <<
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:00:00 GMT
Allow: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, DELETE, TRACE,
Allow: PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, LOCK, UNLOCK, REPORT, ACL
DAV: 1, 2, 3, access-control
DAV: calendar-access, calendar-auto-schedule
In this example, the OPTIONS response indicates that the server
supports both the "calendar-access" and "calendar-auto-schedule"
features and that resource "/lisa/calendar/outbox/" supports the
properties, reports, methods, and privileges defined in this
specification.
3. Scheduling Process
The process of scheduling a meeting between different parties often
involves a series of steps with different "actors" playing particular
roles during the whole process. Typically there is a meeting
"Organizer" whose role is to setup a meeting between one or more
meeting "Attendees", and this is done by sending out invitations and
handling responses from each Attendee.
This process can typically be broken down into two phases.
In the first phase, the Organizer tries to determine a time for the
meeting that ought to be acceptable to each Attendee. This involves
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finding out when each Attendee is available during the period of time
in which the meeting needs to occur (or simply finding a suitable
time for all attendees to come together for the meeting), and
determining when the most appropriate time is for which each Attendee
is free. This process is called a "freebusy" lookup.
In the second phase, the Organizer sends out invitations to each
Attendee using the time determined from the freebusy lookup - or a
suitable guess as to an appropriate time based on other factors if
freebusy lookup is not feasible. There then follows a process of
negotiation between Organizer and Attendees regarding the invitation.
Some Attendees may choose to attend at the original time provided by
the Organizer, others may decline to attend. The Organizer needs to
process each of the replies from the Attendees and take appropriate
action to confirm the meeting, reschedule it or perhaps cancel it.
The user "expectation" as to how a calendaring and scheduling system
should respond in each of these two phases is somewhat different. In
the case of a freebusy lookup, users expect to get back results
immediately so that they can then move on to the invitation phase as
quickly as possible. In the case of invitations, it is expected that
each Attendee will reply with their participation status in their own
time, so delays in receiving replies are anticipated. Thus
calendaring and scheduling systems should treat these two operational
phases in different ways to accommodate the user expectations, and
this specification does that.
The scenario above covers the case of scheduling events ("VEVENT"
components) between calendar users, and doing freebusy lookups
("VFREEBUSY" components). However, iCalendar [RFC2445] also allows
for sending "VTODO" and "VJOURNAL" components as described in iTIP
[RFC2446]. Since this specification is based on iTIP, "VTODO" and
"VJOURNAL" components can also be used. For the majority of the
following discussion, scheduling of events and freebusy lookups will
be discussed as these are the more common operations.
In this specification there are two primary modes of carrying out a
scheduling transaction. For an "automatic scheduling transaction",
calendar data created, modified or removed from calendar collections
cause scheduling operations to occur. For an "explicit scheduling
request", scheduling operations are triggered by an HTTP POST request
to a special resource. iTIP freebusy lookups and iTIP "METHOD:
REFRESH" operations are done via explicit scheduling requests. All
other scheduling operations defined in iTIP, except for "METHOD:
COUNTER" and "METHOD:DECLINECOUNTER" which are not supported, are
done via automatic scheduling transactions.
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3.1. Scheduling Collections
This specification introduces new collection resource types that are
used for managing resources specific to scheduling, in addition to
regular calendar object resources.
3.1.1. Scheduling Outbox Collection
A scheduling Outbox collection is used as the target for initiating
the processing of manual scheduling messages. Currently the only
defined use for this is for "VFREEBUSY" "REQUEST" iTIP messages to
request a synchronous freebusy lookup for a number of calendar users.
A scheduling Outbox collection MUST report the DAV:collection and
CALDAV:schedule-outbox XML elements in the value of the DAV:
resourcetype property. The element type declaration for CALDAV:
schedule-outbox is:
<!ELEMENT schedule-outbox EMPTY>
Example:
<resourcetype xmlns="DAV:">
<collection/>
<C:schedule-outbox xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav"/>
</resourcetype>
New WebDAV ACL [RFC3744] privileges can be used on the scheduling
Outbox collection to control who is allowed to send scheduling
messages on behalf of the calendar user associated with the
scheduling Outbox collection. See Section 9.1 for more details.
A scheduling Outbox collection MUST NOT be a child (at any depth) of
a calendar collection resource.
A scheduling Outbox collection MAY have the following WebDAV
properties defined (as per calendar collections in [RFC4791]):
CALDAV:supported-calendar-component-set - when present this
indicates the allowed calendar component types for scheduling
messages submitted to the scheduling Outbox collection with the
POST method.
CALDAV:supported-calendar-data - when present this indicates the
allowed media types for scheduling messages submitted to the
scheduling Outbox collection with the POST method.
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CALDAV:max-resource-size - when present this indicates the maximum
size of a resource in octets that the server is willing to accept
for scheduling messages submitted to the scheduling Outbox
collection with the POST method.
CALDAV:min-date-time - when present this indicates the earliest
date and time (in UTC) that the server is willing to accept for
any DATE or DATE-TIME value in scheduling messages submitted to
the scheduling Outbox collection with the POST method.
CALDAV:max-date-time - when present this indicates the latest date
and time (in UTC) that the server is willing to accept for any
DATE or DATE-TIME value in scheduling messages submitted to the
scheduling Outbox collection with the POST method.
CALDAV:max-instances - when present this indicates the maximum
number of recurrence instances in scheduling messages submitted to
the scheduling Outbox collection with the POST method.
CALDAV:max-attendees-per-instance - when present this indicates
the maximum number of ATTENDEE properties in any instance of
scheduling messages submitted to the scheduling Outbox collection
with the POST method.
3.1.2. Scheduling Inbox Collection
A scheduling Inbox collection contains incoming scheduling messages.
These may be requests sent by an Organizer, or replies sent by an
Attendee in response to a request.
A scheduling Inbox collection MUST report the DAV:collection and
CALDAV:schedule-inbox XML elements in the value of the DAV:
resourcetype property. The element type declaration for CALDAV:
schedule-inbox is:
<!ELEMENT schedule-inbox EMPTY>
Example:
<resourcetype xmlns="DAV:">
<collection/>
<C:schedule-inbox xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav"/>
</resourcetype>
Every resource in the scheduling Inbox collection MUST be a valid
calendar object resource that defines a scheduling message (i.e. an
iCalendar object that follows the iTIP semantic). Note, that unlike
calendar collections defined by the CalDAV calendar-access feature,
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there are no restrictions on the nature of the resources stored
(e.g., there is no need to verify that the "UID"s of each resource
are unique) beyond the restrictions of iTIP itself. The removal of
the "UID" restriction, in particular, is needed because multiple
scheduling messages may be sent for one particular calendar
component, and each of those will have the same "UID" property in the
calendar object resource. This also implies that a scheduling Inbox
collection cannot contain any types of WebDAV collection resources.
New WebDAV ACL [RFC3744] privileges can be set on the scheduling
Inbox collection to control who the user associated with the
scheduling Inbox collection will accept scheduling messages from.
See Section 9.1 for more details.
A scheduling Inbox collection MUST NOT be a child (at any depth) of a
calendar collection resource.
A scheduling Inbox collection MAY have the following WebDAV
properties defined (as per calendar collections in [RFC4791]):
CALDAV:calendar-timezone - when present this contains a time zone
that the server can use when calendar date-time operations are
carried out, for example when a time-range CALDAV:calendar-query
REPORT is targeted at a scheduling Inbox collection.
CALDAV:supported-calendar-component-set - when present this
indicates the allowed calendar component types for scheduling
messages delivered to the scheduling Inbox collection.
CALDAV:supported-calendar-data - when present this indicates the
allowed media types for scheduling messages delivered to the
scheduling Inbox collection.
CALDAV:max-resource-size - when present this indicates the maximum
size of a resource in octets that the server is willing to accept
for scheduling messages delivered to the scheduling Inbox
collection.
CALDAV:min-date-time - when present this indicates the earliest
date and time (in UTC) that the server is willing to accept for
any DATE or DATE-TIME value in scheduling messages delivered to
the scheduling Inbox collection.
CALDAV:max-date-time - when present this indicates the latest date
and time (in UTC) that the server is willing to accept for any
DATE or DATE-TIME value in scheduling messages delivered to the
scheduling Inbox collection.
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CALDAV:max-instances - when present this indicates the maximum
number of recurrence instances in scheduling messages delivered to
the scheduling Inbox collection.
CALDAV:max-attendees-per-instance - when present this indicates
the maximum number of ATTENDEE properties in any instance of
scheduling messages delivered to the scheduling Inbox collection.
3.2. Automatic Scheduling Transactions
3.2.1. Introduction
When a calendar object resource is created, modified or removed from
a calendar collection that supports the operations defined in this
specification (either via a PUT, DELETE, COPY or MOVE HTTP request),
the server examines the calendar data and checks to see whether the
data represents a scheduling object resource. If it does, the server
will take care of automatically sending and processing scheduling
messages to the appropriate recipients. Several types of scheduling
operation can occur in this case, equivalent to iTIP "REQUEST",
"REPLY", "CANCEL" and "ADD" operations.
When a scheduling transaction is processed by the server, it will
attempt to deliver a scheduling message to each recipient.
3.2.2. Identifying Scheduling Object Resources
The server will only perform automatic scheduling transactions on
creations, modifications, and deletions of valid scheduling object
resources. There are two types of scheduling object resources:
organizer scheduling object resources, and attendee scheduling object
resources.
A calendar object resource is considered to be a valid organizer
scheduling object resource if the "ORGANIZER" iCalendar property is
present and set in all the calendar components to a value that
matches one of the calendar user addresses of the owner of the
calendar collection.
A calendar object resource is considered to be a valid attendee
scheduling object resource if the "ORGANIZER" iCalendar property is
present and set in all the calendar components to the same value and
doesn't match one of the calendar user addresses of the owner of the
calendar collection, and that at least one of the "ATTENDEE"
iCalendar property values match one of the calendar user addresses of
the owner of the calendar collection.
The creation of attendee scheduling object resources will typically
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be done by the server in cases where a default calendar collection is
defined (see Section 3.5.2. In cases where no default calendar
collection is defined, the server MAY prevent calendar user agents
from forging attendee scheduling object resources by forbidding their
creation or imposing restrictions on their creation. For instance, a
server MAY require the presence of a scheduling message, received
from the "ORGANIZER" with the same "UID" property value, in the
scheduling Inbox collection of the owner of the calendar collection.
3.2.3. Handling Scheduling Object Resources
The server's behavior when processing a scheduling object resource
depends on whether it is owned by the Organizer or an Attendee
specified in the calendar data.
3.2.3.1. Organizer Scheduling Object Resources
An Organizer can create, modify or remove a scheduling object
resource by issuing HTTP requests with an appropriate method. The
create, modify and remove behaviors for the server are each described
next, and the way these are invoked via HTTP requests is described in
Section 3.2.3.3.
3.2.3.1.1. Actions on Organizer Scheduling Object Resource
3.2.3.1.1.1. Create
When a scheduling object resource is created by the Organizer, the
server will inspect each "ATTENDEE" property to determine which ones
have the "SCHEDULE-AGENT" iCalendar property parameter.
For each Attendee the server will determine whether to attempt to
deliver a scheduling message into the Attendee's scheduling Inbox
collection, based on the table below:
+------------------+-------------+
| SCHEDULE-AGENT | iTIP METHOD |
+==================+=============+
| SERVER (default) | REQUEST |
+------------------+-------------+
| CLIENT | -- |
+------------------+-------------+
| NONE | -- |
+------------------+-------------+
The attempt to deliver the scheduling message will either succeed or
fail. In all cases, the server MUST add a "SCHEDULE-STATUS"
iCalendar property parameter to the "ATTENDEE" iCalendar property in
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the scheduling object resource being created, and set its value as
described in Section 3.5.4. This will result in the created calendar
object resource differing from the calendar data sent in the HTTP
request. As a result clients MAY reload the calendar data from the
server as soon as it is stored in order to update to the new server
generated state information. Servers MUST NOT set the "SCHEDULE-
STATUS" property on any "ATTENDEE" properties for Attendees that were
not sent a scheduling message.
Restrictions:
1. The server MAY reject any attempt to set the "PARTSTAT" iCalendar
property parameter value of the "ATTENDEE" iCalendar property of
other users in the calendar object resource to a value other than
"NEEDS-ACTION" if the "SCHEDULE-AGENT" property parameter value
is not present or set to the value "SERVER". To maintain
consistency for organizers and attendees hosted on the server
itself, a server will typically choose to enforce the requirement
that only an Attendee can change their own "PARTSTAT" to a value
other than "NEEDS-ACTION".
2. The server MUST reject any attempt to create a duplicate
scheduling object resource in any of the calendar collections
owned by the Organizer. A duplicate scheduling object resource
is one with the same "UID" as an existing scheduling object
resource.
3. The server MUST take into account scheduling privileges when
handling the creation of a scheduling object resource as
described in Section 9.1.
4. Restrictions from [RFC4791] MUST also be enforced.
3.2.3.1.1.2. Modify
When a scheduling object resource is modified by the Organizer, the
server will inspect each "ATTENDEE" property in the new calendar data
to determine which ones have the "SCHEDULE-AGENT" iCalendar property
parameter. It will then need to compare this with the "ATTENDEE"
properties in the existing calendar object resource that is being
modified.
For each Attendee in the old and new calendar data on a per-instance
basis, and taking into account the addition or removal of Attendees,
the server will determine whether to deliver a scheduling message to
the Attendee. The following table determines whether the server
needs to deliver a scheduling message, and if so which iTIP
scheduling method to use. The values "SERVER", "CLIENT" and "NONE"
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in the top and left titles of the table refer to the "SCHEDULE-AGENT"
parameter value of the "ATTENDEE" property, and the values "<Absent>"
and "<Removed>" are used to cover the cases where the "ATTENDEE"
property is not present (Old) or is being removed (New).
+---------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| | New |
| ATTENDEE +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| | <Removed> | SERVER | CLIENT | NONE |
| | | (default) | | |
+===+===========+===========+===========+===========+===========+
| | <Absent> | -- | REQUEST / | -- | -- |
| | | | ADD | | |
| +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| | SERVER | CANCEL | REQUEST | CANCEL | CANCEL |
| O | (default) | | | | |
| l +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| d | CLIENT | -- | REQUEST / | -- | -- |
| | | | ADD | | |
| +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| | NONE | -- | REQUEST / | -- | -- |
| | | | ADD | | |
+---+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
The attempt to deliver the scheduling message will either succeed or
fail. In all cases, the server MUST add a "SCHEDULE-STATUS"
iCalendar property parameter to the "ATTENDEE" iCalendar property in
the scheduling object resource being modified, and set its value as
described in Section 3.5.4. This will result in the created calendar
object resource differing from the calendar data sent in the HTTP
request. As a result clients MAY reload the calendar data from the
server as soon as it is stored in order to update to the new server
generated state information.
Restrictions:
1. The server MAY reject any attempt to set the "PARTSTAT" iCalendar
property parameter value of the "ATTENDEE" iCalendar property of
other users in the calendar object resource to a value other than
"NEEDS-ACTION" if the "SCHEDULE-AGENT" property parameter value
is not present or set to the value "SERVER". To maintain
consistency for organizers and attendees hosted on the server
itself, a server will typically choose to enforce the requirement
that only an Attendee can change their own "PARTSTAT" to a value
other than "NEEDS-ACTION".
2. The server MUST take into account scheduling privileges when
handling the modification of a scheduling object resources as
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described in Section Section 9.1.
3. Restrictions from [RFC4791] MUST also be enforced.
3.2.3.1.1.3. Remove
When a scheduling object resource is removed by the Organizer, the
server will inspect each "ATTENDEE" property in the scheduling object
resource being removed to determine which ones have the "SCHEDULE-
AGENT" iCalendar property parameter.
For each Attendee the server will determine whether to attempt to
deliver a scheduling message into the Attendee's scheduling Inbox
collection, based on the table below:
+------------------+-------------+
| SCHEDULE-AGENT | iTIP METHOD |
+==================+=============+
| SERVER (default) | CANCEL |
+------------------+-------------+
| CLIENT | -- |
+------------------+-------------+
| NONE | -- |
+------------------+-------------+
The attempt to deliver the scheduling message will either succeed or
fail.
Restrictions:
1. The server MUST take into account scheduling privileges when
handling the removal of a scheduling object resource as described
in Section 9.1.
3.2.3.2. Attendee Scheduling Object Resources
An Attendee can create, modify or remove a scheduling object resource
by issuing HTTP requests with an appropriate method. The create,
modify and remove behaviors for the server are each described next,
and the way these are invoked via HTTP requests is described in
Section 3.2.3.3.
3.2.3.2.1. Actions on a Scheduling Object Resource
3.2.3.2.1.1. Allowed Attendee Changes
Attendees are allowed to make some changes to a scheduling object
resource, though the key scheduling properties such as start, end,
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location, summary etc are typically under the control of the
Organizer of the event.
The server MUST allow attendees to:
1. change their own "PARTSTAT" iCalendar property parameter value.
2. add or remove "X-" iCalendar property parameters on their own
"ATTENDEE" properties.
3. add, modify or remove any "TRANSP" iCalendar properties.
4. add, modify or remove any "X-" iCalendar properties in any
component.
5. add, modify or remove any "VALARM" iCalendar components.
6. modify the "PRODID" iCalendar property within the top-level
"VCALENDAR" component.
7. add, modify or remove "CALSCALE" or "X-" iCalendar properties
within the top-level "VCALENDAR" component.
8. create new components to represent overridden recurrence
instances, provided the only changes to the recurrence instance
follow the rules above.
3.2.3.2.1.2. Create
A scheduling object resource is created by an Attendee when the
client creates a scheduling object resource corresponding to an
unprocessed scheduling message currently in that Attendee's
scheduling Inbox collection.
The Attendee is allowed to make changes as noted above.
If the Attendee changes one or more "PARTSTAT" iCalendar property
values on any component, or adds an overridden component with a
changed "PARTSTAT" property, then the server MUST deliver an iTIP
"REPLY" scheduling message to the Organizer to indicate the new
participation status of the Attendee.
The attempt to deliver the scheduling message will either succeed or
fail. In all cases, the server MUST add a "SCHEDULE-STATUS"
iCalendar property parameter to the "ORGANIZER" iCalendar property in
the scheduling object resource being created, and set its value as
described in Section 3.5.4. This will result in the created calendar
object resource differing from the calendar data sent in the HTTP
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request. As a result clients MAY reload the calendar data from the
server as soon as it is stored in order to update to the new server
generated state information.
3.2.3.2.1.3. Modify
Behavior is as per the Create action above.
3.2.3.2.1.4. Remove
When a scheduling object resource is removed by the Attendee, one of
two possibilities exist:
1. If the HTTP request contains a request header "Schedule-Reply"
set to the value "T" or there is no "Schedule-Reply" request
header, then the server MUST attempt to deliver a scheduling
message to the Organizer indicating that the Attendee has a
"PARTSTAT" iCalendar property parameter value set to "DECLINED".
i.e., the Attendee has chosen not to attend any instances. If
the server is unable to deliver the scheduling message, the
remove action MUST fail, and an appropriate "SCHEDULE-STATUS"
iCalendar property parameter set on the "ORGANIZER" property in
the scheduling object resource stored by the server.
2. If the HTTP request contains a request header "Schedule-Reply"
set to the value "F", the server MUST NOT attempt to deliver a
scheduling message. The resource is simply removed. This
provides the client a way to silently remove unwanted scheduling
attempts.
3.2.3.3. HTTP Methods
This section describes how use of various HTTP Methods on a
scheduling object resource will cause a create, modify or remove
action on that resource as described above.
3.2.3.3.1. PUT
When a PUT method request is received, the server will execute the
following actions, provided all appropriate pre-conditions are met:
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+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------+
| Existing Destination | Resulting Destination | Server |
| Resource | Resource | Action |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------+
| None | Calendar object resource | None (1) |
| None | Scheduling object | Create (2) |
| | resource | |
| Calendar object resource | Calendar object resource | None |
| Calendar object resource | Scheduling object | Create (1) |
| | resource | |
| Scheduling object | Calendar object resource | Remove |
| resource | | |
| Scheduling object | Scheduling object | Modify |
| resource | resource | |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------+
Note 1. The server MUST verify that no scheduling object resource
exists in any other of the owner's calendar collections with the same
UID as the resource being created.
Note 2. The server MUST verify that no calendar object resource
exists in any other of the owner's calendar collections with the same
UID as the resource being created.
3.2.3.3.2. COPY
When a COPY method request is received, the server will execute the
following actions based on the source and destination collections in
the request:
+-------------------------+-------------------------+---------------+
| Source Collection | Destination Collection | Server Action |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+---------------+
| Non-calendar collection | Non-calendar collection | None |
| Non-calendar collection | Calendar collection | (1) |
| Calendar collection | Non-calendar collection | None |
| Calendar collection | Calendar collection | (2) |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+---------------+
Note 1. The same rules as used for PUT above are applied for the
destination of the COPY request.
Note 2. If the resource being copied is a scheduling object resource
the server MUST generate an error as scheduling object resources
cannot be duplicated. If the resource being copied is not a
scheduling object resource no server action occurs.
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3.2.3.3.3. MOVE
When a MOVE method request is received, the server will execute the
following actions based on the source and destination collections in
the request:
+-------------------------+-------------------------+---------------+
| Source Collection | Destination Collection | Server Action |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+---------------+
| Non-calendar collection | Non-calendar collection | None |
| Non-calendar collection | Calendar collection | (1) |
| Calendar collection | Non-calendar collection | (2) |
| Calendar collection | Calendar collection | (3) |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+---------------+
Note 1. The same rules as used for PUT above are applied for the
destination of the MOVE request.
Note 2. The same rules as used for DELETE below are applied for the
source of the MOVE request.
Note 3. If the destination resource does not exist the server action
is None. If the source and destination resources are not scheduling
object resources then the server action is None. In all other cases
the server MUST generate an error as scheduling object resources
cannot be duplicated or overwritten by different scheduling object
resources.
3.2.3.3.4. DELETE
When a DELETE method is targeted at a scheduling object resource the
server will execute the Remove action.
When a DELETE method is targeted at a calendar collection the server
will execute the Remove action on all scheduling object resources
contained in the calendar collection.
3.3. Processing of incoming scheduling messages
Scheduling operations can cause the delivery of a scheduling message
into an Organizer's or Attendee's scheduling Inbox collection. In
the former case the scheduling messages are replies or refresh
requests from Attendees, in the latter case the scheduling messages
are requests, cancellations or additions from the Organizer.
In some cases the server will automatically process the scheduling
message, in other cases the scheduling message will be left for the
client to process. In each case, the scheduling message in the
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scheduling Inbox collection is used as an indicator to the client
that a scheduling operation has taken place.
3.3.1. Automatic processing for the Organizer
3.3.1.1. Processing an Attendee reply
For a scheduling message reply sent by an Attendee, the server first
locates the corresponding scheduling object resource belonging to the
Organizer.
The server MUST then update the "PARTSTAT" iCalendar parameter value
of each "ATTENDEE" iCalendar property in the scheduling object
resource to match the changes indicated in the reply (taking into
account the fact that an Attendee could have created a new overridden
iCalendar component to indicate different participation status on one
or more instances of a recurring event).
The server MUST also update or add the "SCHEDULE-STATUS" property
parameter on each matching "ATTENDEE" iCalendar property and sets its
value to that of the "REQUEST-STATUS" property in the reply, or to
"2.0" if "REQUEST-STATUS" is not present (also taking into account
recurrence instances).
At the same time, the server MUST add the CALDAV:schedule-state
WebDAV property with the value CALDAV:schedule-processed (see
Section 6.3) to the scheduling message in the Inbox scheduling
collection.
The server MUST send scheduling messages to all the other Attendees
indicating the change in participation status of the Attendee
replying, subject to the recurrence requirements of Section 3.5.1.
3.3.1.2. Processing an Attendee refresh
TODO: write something here.
3.3.2. Automatic processing for the Attendee
For a scheduling message sent by the Organizer, the server first
tries to locate a corresponding scheduling object resource belonging
to the Attendee. If no matching scheduling object resource exists,
the server treats the scheduling message as a new message, otherwise
it is treated as an update.
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3.3.2.1. Processing a new scheduling message
When a scheduling message containing new calendar components is
detected, two possibilities exist, depending on whether a "default"
calendar (Section 3.5.2) is set for the Attendee:
1. if no valid default calendar is set, the server leaves the
scheduling message in the scheduling Inbox collection, but it
MUST add the CALDAV:schedule-state WebDAV property with the value
CALDAV:schedule-unprocessed (see Section 6.3) to the scheduling
message. It is then up to the client to explicitly process the
scheduling message and remove it from the scheduling Inbox
collection once it has done so.
2. if a valid default calendar is set, the server MUST process the
scheduling message and create an appropriate scheduling object
resource in the default calendar set for the Attendee. At the
same time it MUST add the CALDAV:schedule-state WebDAV property
with the value CALDAV:schedule-processed (see Section 6.3) to the
scheduling message.
3.3.2.2. Processing a scheduling message update
When an update to scheduling message is detected, the server MUST
update the matching scheduling object resource belonging to the
Attendee to reflect the changes proposed in the scheduling message.
At the same time it MUST add the CALDAV:schedule-state WebDAV
property with the value CALDAV:schedule-processed (see Section 6.3)
to the scheduling message.
3.3.3. Processing by the client
When a client detects a scheduling message in the scheduling Inbox
collection it needs to look at the CALDAV:schedule-state WebDAV
property on the resource and act accordingly:
1. if CALDAV:schedule-state is set to CALDAV:schedule-unprocessed,
then it is the client's responsibility to process the scheduling
message and remove it from the scheduling Inbox collection once
it has done so.
2. if CALDAV:schedule-state is set to CALDAV:schedule-processed,
then the server has already processed the scheduling message, but
has left it in the scheduling Inbox collection to serve as a
notification to the client that a change has been made to the
corresponding scheduling object resource. It is then the
client's responsibility to remove the scheduling object resource
from the scheduling Inbox collection once it has made note of the
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fact that a change has occurred.
3.4. Explicit Scheduling Request
An explicit scheduling request sends a scheduling message via an HTTP
POST request targeted at a scheduling Outbox collection. Full
details can be found in Section 8.1.
3.5. Other Considerations
3.5.1. Handling recurring items
3.5.1.1. Restricting what is sent
When delivering scheduling messages for recurring calendar components
to Attendees, servers MUST ensure that Attendees only get information
about recurrence instances that explicitly include them as an
Attendee.
For example, if an Attendee is invited to a single recurrence
instance of a recurring event, and no others, the scheduling object
resource contained in the Organizer's calendar collection will
contain an overridden instance in the form of a separate calendar
component. That separate calendar component will include the
"ATTENDEE" property referencing the "one-off" Attendee. That
Attendee will not be listed in any other calendar components in the
scheduling object resource. The scheduling message that will be
delivered to the Attendee will only contain information about this
overridden instance.
As another example, an Attendee could be excluded from one instance
of a recurring event. In that case the scheduling object resource
contained in the calendar collection of the Organizer will include an
overridden instance with an "ATTENDEE" list that does not include the
Attendee being excluded. The scheduling message that will be
delivered to the Attendee will not specify the overridden instance
but rather include an "EXDATE" property in the master recurring
component defining the recurrence set.
This requirement is needed to ensure that Attendees only have access
to calendar data for items they have been explicitly invited to.
3.5.1.2. Attendee overrides
When a recurring scheduling message is sent to an Attendee, that
Attendee may wish to reply with different participation status on one
or more recurrence instances. In order to do that it will need to
add an overridden iCalendar component for the instances with
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different participation status, and send that as a reply back to the
Organizer. The Organizer will then need to incorporate any new
overridden instances into the matching scheduling object resource to
ensure that the Attendee's participation status is accurately
recorded for all recurrence instances.
3.5.2. Handling the Default Calendar
A calendar user may have multiple calendars representing different
"spheres of activity". However, scheduling requests are targeted at
calendar users and not a specific calendar of a calendar user. Often
it is not appropriate to automatically deliver a scheduling message
to a particular calendar because that scheduling message refers to an
event for a different "sphere of activity". By storing all incoming
scheduling requests in a separate special collection, clients can
process the requests in that collection and choose which calendar
("sphere of activity") the request belongs to and make its own
arrangements to place the relevant calendar object in that calendar.
This specification defines the concept of a "default" calendar
collection. If a valid default calendar collection is specified,
then servers are required to automatically process new scheduling
messages and create the appropriate scheduling object resource in the
default calendar collection. If there is no valid default calendar,
then the server does not automatically process new scheduling
messages, and instead leaves it up to the client to process the
scheduling message and create the appropriate scheduling object
resource in a calendar collection chosen by the calendar user.
Servers MAY prevent deletion of the default calendar.
In order to manage this behavior, a new CALDAV:schedule-default-
calendar-URL WebDAV property is defined for use on scheduling Inbox
collections. This property is used to define the default calendar
collection, if one is required. See Section 6.2.
3.5.3. DTSTAMP and SEQUENCE properties
Whenever the server generates a scheduling message for delivery to a
recipient, it MUST ensure that a "DTSTAMP" iCalendar property is
present and MUST set the value to the UTC time that the scheduling
message was generated (as required by iCalendar).
iTIP [RFC2446] places certain requirements on how the "SEQUENCE"
iCalendar property value in scheduling messages changes. The server
MUST ensure that for each type of scheduling operation, the
"SEQUENCE" iCalendar property value is appropriately updated. If the
client does not update the "SEQUENCE" iCalendar property itself when
that is required, the server MUST update the property and change any
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scheduling object resource accordingly.
3.5.4. Schedule Status Values
When scheduling with an Attendee there are two types of status
information that can be returned during the transaction. The first
status information is a "delivery" status that indicates whether the
scheduling message from the Organizer to the Attendee was delivered
or not, or what the current status of delivery is. The second status
information is a "reply" status corresponding to the Attendee's own
"REQUEST-STATUS" information from the scheduling message reply that
is sent back to the Organizer.
Similarly, when an Attendee sends a reply back to the Organizer,
there will be "delivery" status information for the scheduling
message sent to the Organizer. However, there is no "REQUEST-STATUS"
sent back by the Organizer, so there is no equivalent of the "reply"
status as per scheduling messages to Attendees.
The "delivery" status information on an "ORGANIZER" or "ATTENDEE"
iCalendar property is conveyed in the "SCHEDULE-STATUS" property
parameter value (Section 4.2). The status code value for "delivery"
status can be one of the following:
+----------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Delivery | Description |
| Status | |
| Code | |
+----------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| 1.0 | The scheduling message is pending. i.e. the server is |
| | still in the process of sending the message. The |
| | status code value can be expected to change once the |
| | server has completed its sending and delivery |
| | attempts. |
| | |
| 1.1 | The scheduling message has been successfully sent. |
| | However, the server does not have explicit information |
| | about whether the scheduling message was successfully |
| | delivered to the recipient. This state can occur with |
| | "store and forward" style scheduling protocols such as |
| | iMIP [RFC2447] (iTIP using email). |
| | |
| 1.2 | The scheduling message has been successfully |
| | delivered. |
| | |
| 3.7 | The scheduling message was not delivered because the |
| | server did not recognize the calendar user address of |
| | the recipient as being a supported URI. |
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| | |
| 3.8 | The scheduling message was not delivered because |
| | access privileges do not allow it. |
| | |
| 5.1 | The scheduling message was not delivered because the |
| | server could not complete delivery of the message. |
| | This is likely due to a temporary failure, and the |
| | originator can try to send the message again at a |
| | later time. |
| | |
| 5.2 | The scheduling message was not delivered because the |
| | server was not able to find a suitable way to deliver |
| | the message. This is likely a permanent failure, and |
| | the originator should not try to send the message |
| | again, at least without verifying/correcting the |
| | calendar user address of the recipient. |
| | |
| 5.3 | The scheduling message was not delivered and was |
| | rejected because scheduling with that recipient is not |
| | allowed. This is likely a permanent failure, and the |
| | originator should not try to send the message again. |
+----------+--------------------------------------------------------+
The status code for "reply" status can be any of the valid iTIP
[RFC2446] "REQUEST-STATUS" values.
3.5.5. Error Handling
TODO: e.g. how to deal with failed cancels.
3.5.6. Organizer is an Attendee
The Organizer of a scheduled event may also be an Attendee of that
event. In such cases the server MUST NOT send a scheduling message
to the Attendee that matches the Organizer.
4. New iCalendar Parameters
This section describes additions to iCalendar [RFC2445] to support
CalDAV scheduling.
4.1. Schedule Agent
Parameter Name: SCHEDULE-AGENT
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Purpose: Indicates what agent is expected to handle scheduling for
the corresponding Attendee.
Format Definition: This property parameter is defined by the
following notation:
scheduleagentparam = "SCHEDULE-AGENT" "="
("SERVER" ; The server handles scheduling
/ "CLIENT" ; The client handles scheduling
/ "NONE" ; No automatic scheduling
/ x-name ; Experimental type
/ iana-token) ; Other IANA registered type
; Default is SERVER
Description: This property parameter MAY be present on any
"ATTENDEE" iCalendar property. In the absence of this parameter,
the value "SERVER" MUST be used for the default behavior. The
value determines whether or not an automatic scheduling
transaction on a server will cause a scheduling message to be sent
to the corresponding calendar user identified by the "ATTENDEE"
property value. When the value "SERVER" is specified (or the
parameter is absent) then it is the server's responsibility to
send a scheduling messages as part of an automatic scheduling
transaction. When the value "CLIENT" is specified, that indicates
that the client is handling scheduling messages with the calendar
user itself. When "NONE" is specified, no scheduling messages are
being sent to the calendar user.
Servers MUST NOT include this parameter in any scheduling messages
sent as the result of an automatic scheduling transaction.
Clients SHOULD NOT include this parameter in any scheduling
messages that they themselves send.
Example:
ATTENDEE;SCHEDULE-AGENT=SERVER:mailto:cyrus@example.org
4.2. Schedule Status
Parameter Name: SCHEDULE-STATUS
Purpose: Indicates the status code returned from processing of the
most recent scheduling message sent to the corresponding Attendee,
or received from the corresponding Organizer.
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Format Definition: This property parameter is defined by the
following notation:
schedulestatusparam = "SCHEDULE-STATUS" "=" statcode
; statcode defined in RFC2445.
Description: This property parameter may be present on any
"ATTENDEE" or "ORGANIZER" iCalendar property.
Servers MUST add this parameter to any "ATTENDEE" properties
corresponding to calendar users who were sent a scheduling message
via an automatic scheduling transaction. Clients SHOULD NOT
change or remove this parameter if it was provided by the server.
In the case where the client is handling the scheduling, the
client MAY add, change or remove this parameter to indicate the
last scheduling message status it received.
Servers MUST add this parameter to any "ORGANIZER" properties
corresponding to calendar users who were sent a scheduling message
reply by an Attendee via an automatic scheduling transaction.
Clients SHOULD NOT change or remove this parameter if it was
provided by the server. In the case where the client is handling
the scheduling the client MAY add, change or remove this parameter
to indicate the last scheduling message status it received.
Servers MUST NOT include this parameter in any scheduling messages
sent as the result of an automatic scheduling transaction.
Clients SHOULD NOT include this parameter in any scheduling
messages that they themselves send.
Suitable values for this property parameter are described in
Section 3.5.4.
Example:
ATTENDEE;SCHEDULE-STATUS="2.0":mailto:cyrus@example.org
5. New WebDAV Request Headers
The CalDAV scheduling extension defines the following new WebDAV
request headers for use with CalDAV.
5.1. Schedule-Reply Request Header
ScheduleReply = "Schedule-Reply" ":" ("T" | "F")
When an Attendee executes an HTTP DELETE request on a scheduling
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object resource, and the Schedule-Reply header is not present, or
present and set to the value "T", the server MUST send an appropriate
iTIP "REPLY" scheduling message with the Attendee's "PARTSTAT"
iCalendar property parameter value set to "DECLINED" as part of its
normal automatic scheduling transaction processing.
When the Schedule-Reply header is set to the value "F", the server
MUST NOT send an iTIP scheduling message as part of its normal
automatic scheduling transaction processing.
The Schedule-Reply request header is used by a client to indicate to
a server whether or not an automatic scheduling transaction should
occur when an Attendee deletes a scheduling object resource. In
particular it controls whether an iTIP "REPLY" message is sent to the
Organizer as a result of the deletion. There are situations in which
unsolicited scheduling messages need to be silently deleted (or
ignored) for security or privacy reasons. The new header allows the
scheduling message to be suppressed if such a need arises.
All scheduling object resources MUST support the Schedule-Reply
header.
6. New WebDAV Properties
The CalDAV scheduling extension defines the following new WebDAV
properties for use with CalDAV.
6.1. CALDAV:schedule-calendar-transp Property
Name: schedule-calendar-transp
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Determines whether the calendar object resources in a
calendar collection will affect the owner's freebusy.
Protected: This property MAY be protected and SHOULD NOT be returned
by a PROPFIND allprop request (as defined in Section 14.2 of
[RFC4918]).
COPY/MOVE behavior: This property value SHOULD be kept during a MOVE
operation, but is normally re-initialized when a resource is
created with a COPY. It should not be set in a COPY.
Description: This property SHOULD be defined on all calendar object
resources. If present, it contains one of two XML elements that
indicate whether the calendar object resources should contribute
to the owner's freebusy or not. When the 'opaque' element is
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used, all calendar object resources MUST contribute to freebusy,
assuming access privileges and other iCalendar properties allow it
to. When the 'transparent' XML element is used, all calendar
object resources MUST NOT contribute to freebusy.
If this property is not present on a calendar collection, then the
default value of 'opaque' MUST be assumed.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT schedule-calendar-transp (opaque|transparent) >
<!ELEMENT opaque EMPTY>
<!-- Calendar object resources affect owner freebusy -->
<!ELEMENT transparent EMPTY>
<!-- Calendar object resources never affect owner freebusy -->
Example:
<C:schedule-calendar-transp
xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<C:opaque/>
</C:schedule-calendar-transp>
6.2. CALDAV:schedule-default-calendar-URL Property
Name: schedule-default-calendar-URL
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Specifies a default calendar for an attendee that will
automatically have new scheduling messages deposited into it when
they arrive.
Protected: This property MAY be protected in the case where a server
supports only a single calendar collection, or does not support
changing the default calendar, or does not support a default
calendar.
COPY/MOVE behavior: This property is only defined on a scheduling
Inbox collection which cannot be moved or copied.
Description: This property MAY be defined on a scheduling Inbox
collection. If present, it contains zero or one DAV:href XML
elements. When a DAV:href element is present, its value indicates
a URL to a calendar collection that is used as the default
calendar. When no DAV:href element is present, it indicates that
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there is no default calendar. In the absence of this property
there is no default calendar.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT schedule-default-calendar-URL (DAV:href?) >
Example:
<C:schedule-default-calendar-URL xmlns:D="DAV:"
xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<D:href>/calendars/users/cdaboo/calendar/</D:href>
</C:schedule-default-calendar-URL>
6.3. CALDAV:schedule-state Property
Name: schedule-state
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Indicates whether a scheduling message in a scheduling
Inbox collection has been processed as part of an automatic
scheduling transaction.
Protected: This property MUST be protected as only the server can
carry out automatic processing of scheduling messages.
COPY/MOVE behavior: This property is only defined on a scheduling
message in a scheduling Inbox collection. If a scheduling message
is copied or moved into a scheduling Inbox collection, this
property MUST NOT be set.
Description: This property MAY be defined on a scheduling resource
in a scheduling Inbox collection. If present, it contains one of
two XML elements. When the CALDAV:schedule-unprocessed XML
element is used, it indicates that the scheduling message has not
been automatically processed by the server, and thus needs action
on the part of the client. When the CALDAV:schedule-processed XML
element is used, it indicates that automatic processing of the
scheduling message has taken place, so no scheduling operations
are needed by the client.
Definition:
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<!ELEMENT schedule-state (schedule-processed|schedule-unprocessed) >
<!ELEMENT schedule-processed EMPTY>
<!-- Scheduling message has been automatically processed -->
<!ELEMENT schedule-unprocessed EMPTY>
<!-- Scheduling message has not been automatically processed -->
Example:
<C:schedule-state xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<C:schedule-processed/>
</C:schedule-state>
7. New Preconditions
7.1. Additional Preconditions for PUT, COPY and MOVE
This specification requires additional Preconditions for the PUT,
COPY and MOVE methods. The preconditions are:
(CALDAV:unique-scheduling-object-resource): Only one scheduling
object resource with a particular iCalendar property "UID" value
MUST exist in the system for each Organizer and each Attendee.
(CALDAV:same-organizer-in-all-components): All the calendar
components in a scheduling object resource MUST contain the same
"ORGANIZER" property value if the "ORGANIZER" property is present.
7.2. Additional Preconditions for PUT
This specification requires additional Preconditions for the PUT
method. The preconditions are:
(CALDAV:allowed-organizer-scheduling-object-change): The following
restrictions exist for the "PARTSTAT" property value in scheduling
object resources created or modified by an Organizer:
1. when creating a scheduling object resource the Organizer MAY
NOT set the "PARTSTAT" iCalendar parameter value to anything
other than "NEEDS-ACTION" if the corresponding "ATTENDEE"
property includes the "SCHEDULE-AGENT" iCalendar parameter
with its value set to "SERVER", or no "SCHEDULE-AGENT"
parameter is present.
2. when modifying a scheduling object resource the Organizer MAY
NOT change the "PARTSTAT" iCalendar parameter value to
anything other than "NEEDS-ACTION" if the corresponding
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"ATTENDEE" property includes the "SCHEDULE-AGENT" iCalendar
parameter with its value set to "SERVER", or no "SCHEDULE-
AGENT" parameter is present.
(CALDAV:allowed-attendee-scheduling-object-change): When creating
or modifying a scheduling object resource the Attendee can only
make the following changes:
1. any iCalendar parameter on any "ATTENDEE" property whose value
corresponds to the calendar user address of the Attendee
2. add, change or remove a "TRANSP" property in any component
3. add, change or remove a "COMMENT" property in any component
4. add, change or remove a "PERCENT-COMPLETE" property in any
component
5. change the "PRODID" property in the top-level "VCALENDAR"
component
6. add, change or remove the "CALSCALE" property in the top-level
"VCALENDAR" component
7. add, change or remove any "VALARM" components
8. create overridden recurring instances with only changes as
detailed above
The Attendee MUST NOT make any other type of change.
7.3. Additional Precondition for DELETE
This specification require an additional Preconditions for the PUT
method. The preconditions are:
(CALDAV:default-calendar-delete-allowed): The server MAY allow
deletion of the default calendar collection.
7.4. Additional Precondition for PROPPATCH
This specification requires an additional Precondition for the
property response elements in PROPPATCH method response. The
precondition is:
(CALDAV:valid-schedule-default-calendar-URL): When the server
allows the client to change the CALDAV:schedule-default-calendar-
URL property on a scheduling Inbox collection, the URL specified
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in any DAV:href element MUST reference a calendar collection owned
by the owner of the scheduling Inbox collection.
8. Scheduling
8.1. POST Method
The POST method submits a scheduling or freebusy message to one or
more recipients by targeting the request at the URI of a scheduling
Outbox collection. The request body of a POST method MUST contain a
scheduling message or freebusy message (e.g., an iCalendar object
that follows the iTIP semantic). The resource identified by the
Request-URI MUST be a resource collection of type CALDAV:schedule-
outbox (Section 3.1.1).
Only specific types of scheduling message are allowed in a POST
request on a scheduling Outbox collection:
+----------------+---------------------------------+
| iTIP METHOD | COMPONENT |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
| PUBLISH | None |
| REQUEST | VFREEBUSY |
| REPLY | None |
| ADD | None |
| CANCEL | None |
| REFRESH | Any except VTIMEZONE, VFREEBUSY |
| COUNTER | None |
| DECLINECOUNTER | None |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
Servers SHOULD reject any scheduling message that is not allowed.
However, for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of this
specification, servers MAY return a valid schedule response result
indicating success for the iTIP operation being executed.
Preconditions:
(CALDAV:supported-collection): The Request-URI MUST identify the
location of a scheduling Outbox collection;
(CALDAV:supported-calendar-data): The resource submitted in the
POST request MUST be a supported media type (i.e. text/calendar)
for scheduling or freebusy messages;
(CALDAV:valid-calendar-data): The resource submitted in the POST
request MUST be valid data for the media type being specified
(i.e. valid iCalendar object);
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(CALDAV:valid-scheduling-message): The resource submitted in the
POST request MUST obey all restrictions specified for the POST
request (e.g., the scheduling message follows the restrictions of
iTIP);
(CALDAV:originator-allowed): The currently authenticated user MUST
be granted the CALDAV:schedule-deliver privilege or a suitable
sub-privilege on the scheduling Outbox collection being targeted
by the request;
(CALDAV:organizer-allowed): The calendar user identified by the
"ORGANIZER" property in the POST request's scheduling message MUST
be the calendar user (or one of the calendar users) associated
with the scheduling Outbox collection being targeted by the
request when the scheduling message is an outgoing scheduling
message;
(CALDAV:max-resource-size): The resource submitted in the POST
request MUST have an octet size less than or equal to the value of
the CALDAV:max-resource-size property value [RFC4791]on the
scheduling Outbox collection targeted by the request;
Postconditions: None
8.1.1. Handling a REFRESH
When an iTIP REFRESH scheduling message is executed, the server
delivers the scheduling message to the calendar user specified by the
"ORGANIZER" property value in the scheduling object resource that was
submitted to the scheduling Outbox collection with the POST method.
8.1.2. Response to a POST request
A POST request may deliver a scheduling message to one or more
calendar user recipients. Since the behavior of each recipient may
vary, it is useful to get response status information for each
recipient in the overall POST response. This specification defines a
new XML response to convey multiple recipient status.
A response to a POST method that indicates status for one or more
recipients MUST be a CALDAV:schedule-response XML element. This MUST
contain one or more CALDAV:response elements for each recipient, with
each of those containing elements that indicate which recipient they
correspond to, the scheduling status of the request for that
recipient, any error codes and an optional description. See
Section 11.1.
In the case of a freebusy request, the CALDAV:response elements can
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also contain CALDAV:calendar-data elements which contain freebusy
information (e.g., an iCalendar VFREEBUSY component) indicating the
busy state of the corresponding recipient, assuming that the freebusy
request for that recipient succeeded.
8.1.3. Status Codes for use with the POST method
The following are examples of response codes one would expect to be
used for this method. Note, however, that unless explicitly
prohibited any 2/3/4/5xx series response code may be used in a
response.
200 (OK) - The command succeeded.
201 (Created) - The command succeeded and a new resource was
created in the scheduling Outbox collection.
400 (Bad Request) - The client has provided an invalid scheduling
message.
403 (Forbidden) - The client cannot submit a scheduling message to
the specified Request-URI.
404 (Not Found) - The URL in the Request-URI was not present.
423 (Locked) - The specified resource is locked and the client
either is not a lock owner or the lock type requires a lock token
to be submitted and the client did not submit it.
507 (Insufficient Storage) - The server did not have sufficient
space to record the scheduling message in a scheduling Outbox
collection being targeted by the POST request.
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8.1.4. Example - Simple meeting invitation refresh
>> Request <<
POST /bernard/calendar/outbox/ HTTP/1.1
Host: cal.example.com
Content-Type: text/calendar
Content-Length: xxxx
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN
METHOD:REFRESH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20040901T200200Z
ORGANIZER:mailto:lisa@example.com
ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;ROLE=RE
Q-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN=Bernard Desr
uisseaux:mailto:bernard@example.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
>> Response <<
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:53:32 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: xxxx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<C:schedule-response xmlns:D="DAV:"
xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<C:response>
<C:recipient>
<D:href>mailto:lisa@example.com</D:href>
</C:recipient>
<C:request-status>2.0;Success</C:request-status>
<D:responsedescription>Delivered to recipient
scheduling inbox</D:responsedescription>
</C:response>
</C:schedule-response>
In this example, the client requests the server to deliver a
"REFRESH" scheduling message to the Organizer of the meeting
mailto:lisa@example.com. The response indicates that delivery to the
relevant scheduling Inbox collection of the Organizer was
accomplished successfully.
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8.1.5. Example - Freebusy lookup
>> Request <<
POST /lisa/calendar/outbox/ HTTP/1.1
Host: cal.example.com
Content-Type: text/calendar
Content-Length: xxxx
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VFREEBUSY
DTSTAMP:20040901T200200Z
ORGANIZER:mailto:lisa@example.com
DTSTART:20040902T000000Z
DTEND:20040903T000000Z
UID:34222-232@example.com
ATTENDEE;CN=Bernard Desruisseaux:mailto:bernard@
example.com
ATTENDEE;CN=Cyrus Daboo:mailto:cyrus@example.com
END:VFREEBUSY
END:VCALENDAR
>> Response <<
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:53:32 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: xxxx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<C:schedule-response xmlns:D="DAV:"
xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<C:response>
<C:recipient>
<D:href>mailto:bernard@example.com<D:href>
</C:recipient>
<C:request-status>2.0;Success</C:request-status>
<C:calendar-data>BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Server//EN
METHOD:REPLY
BEGIN:VFREEBUSY
DTSTAMP:20040901T200200Z
ORGANIZER:mailto:lisa@example.com
DTSTART:20040902T000000Z
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DTEND:20040903T000000Z
UID:34222-232@example.com
ATTENDEE;CN=Bernard Desruisseaux:mailto:bernard@
example.com
FREEBUSY;FBTYPE=BUSY-UNAVAILABLE:20040902T000000Z/
20040902T090000Z,20040902T170000Z/20040903T000000Z
END:VFREEBUSY
END:VCALENDAR
</C:calendar-data>
</C:response>
<C:response>
<C:recipient>
<D:href>mailto:cyrus@example.com<D:href>
</C:recipient>
<C:request-status>2.0;Success</C:request-status>
<C:calendar-data>BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Server//EN
METHOD:REPLY
BEGIN:VFREEBUSY
DTSTAMP:20040901T200200Z
ORGANIZER:mailto:lisa@example.com
DTSTART:20040902T000000Z
DTEND:20040903T000000Z
UID:34222-232@example.com
ATTENDEE;CN=Cyrus Daboo:mailto:cyrus@example.com
FREEBUSY;FBTYPE=BUSY-UNAVAILABLE:20040902T000000Z/
20040902T090000Z,20040902T170000Z/20040903T000000Z
FREEBUSY;FBTYPE=BUSY:20040902T120000Z/20040902T130000Z
END:VFREEBUSY
END:VCALENDAR
</C:calendar-data>
</C:response>
</C:schedule-response>
In this example, the client requests the server to determine the busy
information of the calendar users mailto:bernard@example.com and
mailto:cyrus@example.com, over the time range specified by the
scheduling message sent in the request. The response includes
"VFREEBUSY" components for each of those calendar users with their
busy time indicated.
8.2. Retrieving incoming scheduling messages
Incoming scheduling messages will be stored in a scheduling Inbox
collection. As per Section 10, CalDAV calendar-access reports work
on scheduling collections, so the client can use those to get partial
information on scheduling messages in the scheduling Inbox
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collection.
9. Scheduling Access Control
9.1. Scheduling Privileges
CalDAV servers MUST support and adhere to the requirements of WebDAV
ACL [RFC3744]. Furthermore, CalDAV servers that advertise support
for the "calendar-auto-schedule" feature MUST also support the
scheduling privileges defined in this section.
All the scheduling privileges MUST be non-abstract and MUST appear in
the DAV:supported-privilege-set property of scheduling Outbox and
Inbox collections on which they are defined.
The tables specified in Appendix A clarifies which scheduling methods
(e.g., "REQUEST", "REPLY", etc.) are controlled by each scheduling
privilege defined in this section.
9.1.1. Privileges on Scheduling Inbox Collections
This section defines new WebDAV ACL privileges that are for use on
scheduling Inbox collections. These privileges determine whether a
calendar user is allowed to have scheduling messages delivered to the
calendar user who "owns" the scheduling Inbox collection. This
allows calendar users to choose which other calendar users can
schedule with them.
The privileges defined in this section are ignored if applied to a
resource other than a scheduling Inbox collection.
9.1.1.1. CALDAV:schedule-deliver Privilege
CALDAV:schedule-deliver is an aggregate privilege that contains all
the scheduling privileges that control the processing and delivery of
incoming scheduling messages, that is, CALDAV:schedule-deliver-invite
and CALDAV:schedule-deliver-reply, as well as freebusy requests
targeted at the owner of the scheduling Inbox collection, that is,
CALDAV:schedule-query-freebusy.
<!ELEMENT schedule-deliver EMPTY >
9.1.1.2. CALDAV:schedule-deliver-invite Privilege
The CALDAV:schedule-deliver-invite privilege controls the processing
and delivery of scheduling messages coming from an Organizer.
<!ELEMENT schedule-deliver-invite EMPTY >
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9.1.1.3. CALDAV:schedule-deliver-reply Privilege
The CALDAV:schedule-deliver-reply privilege controls the processing
and delivery of scheduling messages coming from an Attendee.
<!ELEMENT schedule-deliver-reply EMPTY >
9.1.1.4. CALDAV:schedule-query-freebusy Privilege
The CALDAV:schedule-query-freebusy privilege controls freebusy
requests targeted at the owner of the scheduling Inbox collection.
<!ELEMENT schedule-query-freebusy EMPTY >
9.1.2. Privileges on Scheduling Outbox Collections
This section defines new WebDAV ACL privileges that are defined for
use on scheduling Outbox collections. These privileges determine
which calendar users are allowed to send scheduling messages on
behalf of the calendar user who "owns" the scheduling Outbox
collection. This allows calendar users to choose other calendar
users who can act on their behalf to schedule with other calendar
users (e.g. assistants working on behalf of their boss).
The privileges defined in this section are ignored if applied to a
resource other than a scheduling Outbox collection.
9.1.2.1. CALDAV:schedule-send Privilege
CALDAV:schedule-send is an aggregate privilege that contains all the
scheduling privileges that control the use of methods that will cause
scheduling messages to be delivered to other users, that is, CALDAV-
schedule-send-invite and CALDAV-schedule-send-reply, as well as
freebusy requests to be targeted at other users, that is, CALDAV-
schedule-send-freebusy.
<!ELEMENT schedule-send EMPTY >
9.1.2.2. CALDAV:schedule-send-invite Privilege
The CALDAV:schedule-send-invite privilege controls the sending of
scheduling messages by Organizers.
Users granted the DAV:bind privilege on a calendar collection, or
DAV:write privilege on scheduling object resources, will also need
the CALDAV:schedule-send-invite privilege granted on the scheduling
Outbox collection of the owner of the calendar collection or
scheduling object resource in order to be allowed to create, modify
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or delete scheduling object resources in a way that will trigger the
CalDAV server to deliver organizer scheduling messages to other
calendar users.
<!ELEMENT schedule-send-invite EMPTY >
9.1.2.3. CALDAV:schedule-send-reply Privilege
The CALDAV:schedule-send-invite privilege controls the sending of
scheduling messages by Attendees.
Users granted the DAV:bind privilege on a calendar collection, or
DAV:write privilege on scheduling object resources, will also need
the CALDAV:schedule-send-reply privilege granted on the scheduling
Outbox collection of the owner of the calendar collection or
scheduling object resource in order to be allowed to create, modify
or delete scheduling object resources in a way that will trigger the
CalDAV server to deliver attendee scheduling messages to other
calendar users.
<!ELEMENT schedule-send-reply EMPTY >
9.1.2.4. CALDAV:schedule-send-freebusy Privilege
The CALDAV:schedule-send-freebusy privilege controls the use of the
POST method to submit scheduling messages that specify the scheduling
method "REQUEST" with a "VFREEBUSY" calendar component.
<!ELEMENT schedule-send-freebusy EMPTY >
9.1.3. Aggregation of Scheduling Privileges
Server implementations MUST aggregate the scheduling privileges as
follows:
DAV:all MUST contain CALDAV:schedule-send and CALDAV:schedule-
deliver;
CALDAV:schedule-send MUST contain CALDAV:schedule-send-invite,
CALDAV:schedule-send-reply, and CALDAV:schedule-send-freebusy;
CALDAV:schedule-deliver MUST contain CALDAV:schedule-deliver-
invite, CALDAV:schedule-deliver-reply, and CALDAV:schedule-query-
freebusy.
The following diagram illustrates how scheduling privileges are
aggregated according to the above requirements.
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[DAV:all] (aggregate)
|
+-- [CALDAV:schedule-deliver] (aggregate)
| |
| +-- [CALDAV:schedule-deliver-invite]
| +-- [CALDAV:schedule-deliver-reply]
| +-- [CALDAV:schedule-query-freebusy]
|
+-- [CALDAV:schedule-send] (aggregate)
|
+-- [CALDAV:schedule-send-invite]
+-- [CALDAV:schedule-send-reply]
+-- [CALDAV:schedule-send-freebusy]
9.2. Additional Principal Properties
This section defines new properties for WebDAV principal resources as
defined in RFC3744 [RFC3744]. These properties are likely to be
protected but the server MAY allow them to be written by appropriate
users.
9.2.1. CALDAV:schedule-inbox-URL Property
Name: schedule-inbox-URL
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Identify the URL of the scheduling Inbox collection owned
by the associated principal resource.
Conformance: This property MAY be protected and SHOULD NOT be
returned by a PROPFIND allprop request (as defined in Section 14.2
of [RFC4918]).
Description: This property is needed for a client to determine where
the scheduling Inbox collection of the current user is located so
that processing of scheduling messages can occur.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT schedule-inbox-URL (DAV:href)>
9.2.2. CALDAV:schedule-outbox-URL Property
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Name: schedule-outbox-URL
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Identify the URL of the scheduling Outbox collection owned
by the associated principal resource.
Conformance: This property MAY be protected and SHOULD NOT be
returned by a PROPFIND allprop request (as defined in Section 14.2
of [RFC4918]).
Description: This property is needed for a client to determine where
the scheduling Outbox collection of the current user is located so
that sending of scheduling messages can occur.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT schedule-outbox-URL DAV:href>
9.2.3. CALDAV:calendar-user-address-set Property
Name: calendar-user-address-set
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Identify the calendar addresses of the associated principal
resource.
Conformance: This property MAY be protected and SHOULD NOT be
returned by a PROPFIND allprop request (as defined in Section 14.2
of [RFC4918]). Support for this property is REQUIRED. This
property SHOULD be searchable using the DAV:principal-property-
search REPORT. The DAV:principal-search-property-set REPORT
SHOULD identify this property as such.
Description: This property is needed to map calendar user addresses
in iCalendar data to principal resources and their associated
scheduling Inbox and Outbox collections. In the event that a user
has no well defined identifier for their calendar user address,
the URI of their principal resource can be used.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT calendar-user-address-set (DAV:href*)>
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Example:
<C:calendar-user-address-set xmlns:D="DAV:"
xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<D:href>mailto:bernard@example.com</D:href>
<D:href>mailto:bernard.desruisseaux@example.com</D:href>
</C:calendar-user-address-set>
9.2.4. CALDAV:calendar-user-type Property
Name: calendar-user-type
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Identifies the calendar user type of the associated
principal resource.
Conformance: This property MAY be protected and SHOULD NOT be
returned by a PROPFIND allprop request (as defined in Section 14.2
of [RFC4918]). Support for this property is OPTIONAL. This
property SHOULD be searchable using the DAV:principal-property-
search REPORT. The DAV:principal-search-property-set REPORT
SHOULD identify this property as such.
Description: This property is used to indicate the type of calendar
user associated with the principal resource. Its value is the
same as the iCalendar "CUTYPE" property parameter that can be used
on "ATTENDEE" properties.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT calendar-user-type #PCDATA>
<!-- The supported values are those defined in iCalendar [RFC2445]
Section 4.2.3 for the "CUTYPE" -->
Example:
<C:calendar-user-type
xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">INDIVIDUAL<
/C:calendar-user-type>
10. Reports
This specification extends the CALDAV:calendar-query and CALDAV:
calendar-multiget reports to return results for calendar object
resources in scheduling Inbox collections when the report directly
targets such a collection. i.e. the Request-URI for a REPORT MUST be
the URI of the scheduling Inbox collection or of a child resource
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within a scheduling Inbox collection. A report run on a regular
collection that includes a scheduling Inbox collection as a child
resource at any depth MUST NOT examine or return any calendar object
resources from within any scheduling Inbox collections.
When a CALDAV:calendar-query REPORT includes a time-range query and
targets a scheduling Inbox collection, if any calendar object
resources contain "VEVENT" calendar components that do not include a
"DTSTART" iCalendar property (as allowed by iTIP [RFC2446]) then such
components MUST always match the time-range query test.
Note that the CALDAV:free-busy-query report is NOT supported on
scheduling Inbox collections.
11. XML Element Definitions
11.1. CALDAV:schedule-response XML Element
Name: schedule-response
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Contains the set of responses for a POST method request.
Description: See Section 8.1.2.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT schedule-response (response*)>
11.2. CALDAV:response XML Element
Name: response
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Contains a single response for a POST method request.
Description: See Section 8.1.2.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT response (recipient,
request-status,
calendar-data?,
DAV:error?,
DAV:responsedescription?)>
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11.3. CALDAV:recipient XML Element
Name: recipient
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: The calendar user address (recipient header value) that the
enclosing response for a POST method request is for.
Description: See Section 8.1.2.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT recipient (DAV:href)>
11.4. CALDAV:request-status XML Element
Name: request-status
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: The iTIP "REQUEST-STATUS" property value for this response.
Description: See Section 8.1.2.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT request-status #PCDATA>
12. Security Considerations
The process of scheduling involves the sending and receiving of
scheduling messages. As a result, the security problems related to
messaging in general are relevant here. In particular the
authenticity of the scheduling messages needs to be verified
absolutely. Servers and clients MUST use an HTTP connection
protected with TLS as defined in [RFC2818] for all scheduling
transactions.
12.1. Verifying scheduling requests
When handling an implicit scheduling operation:
Servers MUST verify that the currently authenticated user has the
CALDAV:schedule-deliver privilege or a suitable sub-privilege on
the scheduling Outbox collection of the DAV:owner of the calendar
collection in which a scheduling object resource is being
manipulated.
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Servers MUST verify that the principal associated with the DAV:
owner of the calendar collection in which a scheduling object
resource is being manipulated contains a CALDAV:schedule-outbox-
URL property value.
Servers MUST only deliver scheduling messages to recipients when
the principal associated with the DAV:owner of the calendar
collection in which a scheduling object resource is being
manipulated has the CALDAV:schedule privilege or a suitable sub-
privilege on the scheduling Inbox collections for recipient.
To prevent impersonation of calendar users, the server MUST verify
that the "ORGANIZER" property in an organizer scheduling object
resource matches one of the calendar user addresses of the DAV:
owner of the calendar collection in which the resource is stored.
To prevent spoofing of an existing scheduling object resource,
servers MUST verify that the "UID" iCalendar property value in a
new scheduling object resource does not match that of an existing
scheduling object resource with a different "ORGANIZER" property
value.
When handling a POST request on a scheduling Outbox collection:
Servers MUST verify that the currently authenticated user has the
CALDAV:schedule-deliver privilege or a suitable sub-privilege on
the scheduling Outbox collection targeted by the request.
Servers MUST verify that the principal associated with the
calendar user address specified in the "ORGANIZER" property of the
scheduling message data in the request contains a CALDAV:schedule-
outbox-URL property value that matches the scheduling Outbox
collection targeted by the request.
Servers MUST verify that the principal associated with the
calendar user address specified in the "ORGANIZER" property of the
scheduling message data in the request has the CALDAV:schedule
privilege or a suitable sub-privilege on all of the scheduling
Inbox collections for those recipients to whom a scheduling
message is being delivered.
13. IANA Consideration
13.1. HTTP header registration
This specification registers one new header for use with HTTP as per
[RFC3864].
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13.1.1. Schedule-Reply Request Header Registration
Header field name: Schedule-Reply
Applicable protocol: http
Status: standard
Author/Change controller: IETF
Specification document(s): this specification
Related information: none
13.2. iCalendar Registrations
This specification registers two new iCalendar property parameters as
defined in XXX.
14. Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the following individuals for
contributing their ideas and support for writing this specification:
Mike Douglass, Lisa Dusseault, Arnaud Quillaud, Julian F. Reschke,
Wilfredo Sanchez Vega, Simon Vaillancourt, and Jim Whitehead.
The authors would also like to thank the Calendaring and Scheduling
Consortium for advice with this specification, and for organizing
interoperability testing events to help refine it.
15. References
15.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to
Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14,
RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2445] Dawson, F. and Stenerson, D., "Internet
Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object
Specification (iCalendar)", RFC 2445,
November 1998.
[RFC2446] Silverberg, S., Mansour, S., Dawson, F., and
R. Hopson, "iCalendar Transport-Independent
Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling
Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal
Entries", RFC 2446, November 1998.
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[RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk,
H., Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-
Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol --
HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.
[RFC2818] Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818,
May 2000.
[RFC3744] Clemm, G., Reschke, J., Sedlar, E., and J.
Whitehead, "Web Distributed Authoring and
Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control Protocol",
RFC 3744, May 2004.
[RFC3864] Klyne, G., Nottingham, M., and J. Mogul,
"Registration Procedures for Message Header
Fields", BCP 90, RFC 3864, September 2004.
[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.
[W3C.REC-xml-20060816] Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C.,
Yergeau, F., and E. Maler, "Extensible Markup
Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition)", World
Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-xml-
20060816, August 2006,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816>.
15.2. Informative References
[RFC2447] Dawson, F., Mansour, S., and S. Silverberg,
"iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability
Protocol (iMIP)", RFC 2447, November 1998.
Appendix A. Scheduling Privileges Summary
A.1. Scheduling Inbox Privileges
The following tables specify which scheduling privileges grant the
right to a calendar user to deliver a scheduling message to the
scheduling Inbox collection of another calendar user. The
appropriate behavior depends on the calendar component type in the
scheduling message and the scheduling "METHOD" in use.
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+-----------------------+
| METHOD for VEVENT |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| P | R | R | A | C | R |
| U | E | E | D | A | E |
| B | Q | P | D | N | F |
| L | U | L | | C | R |
| I | E | Y | | E | E |
+----------------------------+| S | S | | | L | S |
| Scheduling Inbox Privilege || H | T | | | | H |
+============================++===+===+===+===+===+===+
| schedule-deliver || * | * | * | * | * | * |
| schedule-deliver-invite || * | * | | * | * | |
| schedule-deliver-reply || | | * | | | * |
| schedule-query-freebusy || | | | | | |
+----------------------------++---+---+---+---+---+---+
+-----------------------+
| METHOD for VTODO |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| P | R | R | A | C | R |
| U | E | E | D | A | E |
| B | Q | P | D | N | F |
| L | U | L | | C | R |
| I | E | Y | | E | E |
+----------------------------+| S | S | | | L | S |
| Scheduling Inbox Privilege || H | T | | | | H |
+============================++===+===+===+===+===+===+
| schedule-deliver || * | * | * | * | * | * |
| schedule-deliver-invite || * | * | | * | * | |
| schedule-deliver-reply || | | * | | | * |
| schedule-query-freebusy || | | | | | |
+----------------------------++---+---+---+---+---+---+
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+-----------------------+
| METHOD for VJOURNAL |
+-------+-------+-------+
| P | A | C |
| U | D | A |
| B | D | N |
| L | | C |
| I | | E |
+----------------------------+| S | | L |
| Scheduling Inbox Privilege || H | | |
+============================++=======+=======+=======+
| schedule-deliver || * | * | * |
| schedule-deliver-invite || * | * | * |
| schedule-deliver-reply || | | |
| schedule-query-freebusy || | | |
+----------------------------++-------+-------+-------+
+---------------+
| METHOD for |
| VFREEBUSY |
+-------+-------+
| P | R |
| U | E |
| B | Q |
| L | U |
| I | E |
+----------------------------+| S | S |
| Scheduling Inbox Privilege || H | T |
+============================++=======+=======+
| schedule-deliver || * | * |
| schedule-deliver-invite || * | |
| schedule-deliver-reply || | |
| schedule-query-freebusy || | * |
+----------------------------++-------+-------+
A.2. Scheduling Outbox Privileges
The following tables specify which scheduling privileges grant the
right to a calendar user to submit a scheduling message to another
calendar user, either as the result of an explicit scheduling request
or an automatic scheduling transaction. The appropriate behavior
depends on the calendar component type in the scheduling message and
the scheduling "METHOD" in use.
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+-------------------+
| METHOD for VEVENT |
+---+---+---+---+---+
| R | R | A | C | R |
| E | E | D | A | E |
| Q | P | D | N | F |
| U | L | | C | R |
| E | Y | | E | E |
+-----------------------------+| S | | | L | S |
| Scheduling Outbox Privilege || T | | | | H |
+=============================++===+===+===+===+===+
| schedule-send || * | * | * | * | * |
| schedule-send-invite || * | | * | * | |
| schedule-send-reply || | * | | | * |
| schedule-send-freebusy || | | | | |
+-----------------------------++---+---+---+---+---+
+-------------------+
| METHOD for VTODO |
+---+---+---+---+---+
| R | R | A | C | R |
| E | E | D | A | E |
| Q | P | D | N | F |
| U | L | | C | R |
| E | Y | | E | E |
+-----------------------------+| S | | | L | S |
| Scheduling Outbox Privilege || T | | | | H |
+=============================++===+===+===+===+===+
| schedule-send || * | * | * | * | * |
| schedule-send-invite || * | | * | * | |
| schedule-send-reply || | * | | | * |
| schedule-send-freebusy || | | | | |
+-----------------------------++---+---+---+---+---+
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+-----------------------+
| METHOD for VJOURNAL |
+-------+-------+-------+
| P | A | C |
| U | D | A |
| B | D | N |
| L | | C |
| I | | E |
+-----------------------------+| S | | L |
| Scheduling Outbox Privilege || H | | |
+=============================++=======+=======+=======+
| schedule-send || * | * | * |
| schedule-send-invite || * | * | * |
| schedule-send-reply || | | |
| schedule-send-freebusy || | | |
+-----------------------------++-------+-------+-------+
+---------------+
| METHOD for |
| VFREEBUSY |
+-------+-------+
| P | R |
| U | E |
| B | Q |
| L | U |
| I | E |
+-----------------------------+| S | S |
| Scheduling Outbox Privilege || H | T |
+=============================++=======+=======+
| schedule-send || * | * |
| schedule-send-invite || * | |
| schedule-send-reply || | |
| schedule-send-freebusy || | * |
+-----------------------------++-------+-------+
Appendix B. Changes (to be removed prior to publication as an RFC)
B.1. Changes in -06
a. Removed distinction between scheduling calendar collections and
basic calendar collections - now just have calendar collections.
b. Clients now "MAY" reload data rather than "SHOULD" reload data.
c. Fixed <C:recipient> in examples.
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d. Removed CALDAV:attachments-allowed pre-condition on POST to
Outbox as that is no longer relevant.
e. Added CALDAV:default-calendar-delete-allowed precondition for
DELETE.
f. Relaxed MUST->MAY for Organizer setting PARTSTAT value.
g. Tweaked restrictions on Create/Modify to emphasize that 4791
restrictions also apply.
h. Added comment that 'opaque' is the default when the CALDAV:
schedule-calendar-transp property is not present.
i. Description of Schedule-Reply header changed to reflect that it
is only relevant for Attendees.
j. Minor typos fixed.
B.2. Changes in -05
This draft has changed substantially since the -04 version. The
primary reason for this change was implementation experience from a
number of vendors who implemented products based on the earlier
drafts. Experience showed that the client/server interaction was not
reliable in keeping scheduling messages synchronized between
organizer and attendees. In addition the latency in updates due to
clients being offline proved unacceptable to users. These issues led
to the redesign of this specification to support a server-based
processing model that eliminates all the problems seen previously.
Whilst this adds significant complexity to the server in that it
needs to be a full blown iTIP processing agent, it does remove a lot
of the same complexity from clients, opening up the possibility of
supporting complex scheduling behaviors even with "thin" clients.
In the judgement of the authors, we consider this new specification
to be a substantial improvement over the old one and believe it
represents a stronger protocol that will lead to better
interoperability.
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Authors' Addresses
Cyrus Daboo
Apple Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
USA
EMail: cyrus@daboo.name
URI: http://www.apple.com/
Bernard Desruisseaux
Oracle Corporation
600 Blvd. de Maisonneuve West
Suite 1900
Montreal, QC H3A 3J2
CANADA
EMail: bernard.desruisseaux@oracle.com
URI: http://www.oracle.com/
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