Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)
RFC 4791
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(March 2007; Errata)
Was draft-dusseault-caldav (individual in app area)
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| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
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| Responsible AD | Ted Hardie | ||
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Network Working Group C. Daboo
Request for Comments: 4791 Apple
Category: Standards Track B. Desruisseaux
Oracle
L. Dusseault
CommerceNet
March 2007
Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)
Status of This Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007).
Abstract
This document defines extensions to the Web Distributed Authoring and
Versioning (WebDAV) protocol to specify a standard way of accessing,
managing, and sharing calendaring and scheduling information based on
the iCalendar format. This document defines the "calendar-access"
feature of CalDAV.
Daboo, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 4791 CalDAV March 2007
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2. XML Namespaces and Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3. Method Preconditions and Postconditions . . . . . . . . . 6
2. Requirements Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. Calendaring Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. Calendar Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2. Recurrence and the Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Calendar Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1. Calendar Object Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. Calendar Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Calendar Access Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.1. Calendar Access Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.1.1. Example: Using OPTIONS for the Discovery of
Calendar Access Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2. Calendar Collection Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2.1. CALDAV:calendar-description Property . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2.2. CALDAV:calendar-timezone Property . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2.3. CALDAV:supported-calendar-component-set Property . . . 14
5.2.4. CALDAV:supported-calendar-data Property . . . . . . . 15
5.2.5. CALDAV:max-resource-size Property . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.2.6. CALDAV:min-date-time Property . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.2.7. CALDAV:max-date-time Property . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.2.8. CALDAV:max-instances Property . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.2.9. CALDAV:max-attendees-per-instance Property . . . . . . 19
5.2.10. Additional Precondition for PROPPATCH . . . . . . . . 20
5.3. Creating Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.3.1. MKCALENDAR Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.3.1.1. Status Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.3.1.2. Example: Successful MKCALENDAR Request . . . . . . 23
5.3.2. Creating Calendar Object Resources . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.3.2.1. Additional Preconditions for PUT, COPY, and
MOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.3.3. Non-Standard Components, Properties, and Parameters . 28
5.3.4. Calendar Object Resource Entity Tag . . . . . . . . . 28
6. Calendaring Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.1. Calendaring Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.1.1. CALDAV:read-free-busy Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.2. Additional Principal Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6.2.1. CALDAV:calendar-home-set Property . . . . . . . . . . 30
7. Calendaring Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.1. REPORT Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.2. Ordinary Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.3. Date and Floating Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.4. Time Range Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.5. Searching Text: Collations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Daboo, et al. Standards Track [Page 2]
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