1.5. Summary

This was the largest interop event we’ve had testing calendar specifications. Several vendors got an excellent opportunity to see how their products worked with other applications. The more we can test, the more we can find, fix, enhance, and simplify. One of the products from this event will be the RFC matrix which we will provide to the CALSIFY working group at the IETF. It shows what components are supported and not supported by three vendors today. This should prove helpful in their mission to come up with RFC’s that will better interoperate.

In addition, based on comments made by attendees and the manager’s analysis of what transpired, we will make modifications to how we handle the interop testing itself. As we add more participants, we will have to make the interop a bit more structured in order to ensure we test each and every product implementation. Pre-defining user-ids prior to the interop this time helped. We will need to ensure that server implementations can be accessed prior to the interop as well. This may pose a problem to those who bring servers with them to interops, but we’ll work around those situations on a company by company basis.

More vendors at this interop also meant more extensive testing of CALDAV. Most vendors are still in the development stages, but the number of vendors supporting CALDAV is growing, so we expect the number of attendees at future interops to increase. In summary, it was a good event.

Respectively submitted,

Patricia Egen
Interop Manager