Network Working Group R. Mahy
Request for Comments: 5333 Unaffiliated
Category: Standards Track B. Hoeneisen
Swisscom
October 2009
IANA Registration of Enumservices for Internet Calendaring
Abstract
This document registers Enumservices for Internet calendaring.
Specifically, this document focuses on Enumservices for scheduling
with iMIP (iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol) and for
accessing Internet calendaring information with CalDAV (Calendaring
Extensions to WebDAV).
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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
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1. Introduction
ENUM (E.164 Number Mapping, RFC 3761 [1]) is a system that uses DNS
(Domain Name System, RFC 1034 [2]) to translate telephone numbers,
such as '+12025550100', into URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers, RFC
3986 [3]), such as 'mailto:user@example.com'. ENUM exists primarily
to facilitate the interconnection of systems that rely on telephone
numbers with those that use URIs to identify resources. The ENUM
registration here could be used to allow phones, for example, to
check the free/busy status of a user in their address book or propose
a meeting with him or her from the user's phone number.
The Guide to Internet Calendaring [10] describes the relationship
between various Internet calendaring specifications like this:
"iCalendar [4] is the language used to describe calendar objects.
iTIP [5] [iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol]
describes a way to use the iCalendar language to do scheduling. iMIP
[6] [iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol] describes how
to do iTIP scheduling via e-mail".
Recently, another Standards Track protocol for calendar and
scheduling access has appeared. CalDAV (Calendaring Extensions to
WebDAV) [7] is a WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and
Versioning) [8] based mechanism for manipulating Internet calendars,
viewing free/busy lists, and via a planned scheduling extension [15],
could be used for proposing calendar events as well in the future.
The existing 'mailto:' URI scheme (defined in RFC 3986 [3]) is
already used to address iMIP compatible Calendar Services. Likewise,
the existing 'http:' and 'https:' URI schemes (defined in RFC 2616
[11] and RFC 2818 [12]) are already used to address CalDAV compatible
Calendar Services.
This document registers Enumservices for scheduling and accessing
Internet calendaring information associated with an E.164 number.
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