Calendaring and Scheduling Bob Mahoney and Paul Hill MIT

C&S Related Domains n n Personal and Group agenda management n n Event publication and selection n n Reservations and facilities management n n Project management and tracking n n Human Resource management

Why we got involved n Driven by the impact on existing services n Proliferation of proprietary systems n System Intrusions

Initial Requirements n Client-Server architecture n Strong security n Heterogeneous environment n Scalable management n PDAs

Later driving factors n Demand for event publishing n Other groups purchasing facilities management systems

Goals n Have a product to recommend to departments n Provide a central service

Reality n No vendor could provide a solution that met the requirements n Market changing rapidly n IETF working group started

Main contenders n Meeting Maker, ON Technology n Synchronize, Crosswind Technologies n Softscape n Corporate Time

Where are we? n Slowly modifying Synchronize n Talking to ON about modifications n Recommending technology to CST n Watching Softscape

Problems with IETF working group n All implementers are vendors n No source code to be published n This will lead to inability to create some custom applications of the technology

Should we develop? n SASL library is in progress at CMU, MIT and other sites n What about iCalendar parsers for C and Java? n Simple client to create or display an iCalendar object n Simple database to store iCalendar objects