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1. General Comments

The following applications and products were tested:

  • Four CALDAV servers — RPI, Oracle, Apple and OSAF (Cosmo)

  • Three CALDAV clients — OSAF (Chandler), Mozilla, and Apple

  • Absorbing Recurrence rules (RFC 2445 and RFC 2447) by Eventful.

Free Busy and Scheduling are recent additions to CALDAV. However, we had three clients testing CALDAV against four CALDAV servers this event. This is a three-fold increase over the last interop testing. Since scheduling is the most recent addition to CALDAV there was limited testing of that part of the specification.

The following paragraphs discuss items tested during the interop. The actual matrix showing the specific test cases is provided at the end of this document.

The first part of the testing covered Event creation and modification. Two of the vendors were able to pass and test all items against two servers. The other vendors were able to pass several, but not all of the items in the testing suite.

The second part of the testing covered Event Modification. Again, two vendors supported and passed testing of the nine items against two servers. One vendor did not participate in this test.

The third part of the testing covered Event Retrieval via CalDAV reports, which, at present no one supports and therefore was not tested.

The fourth part covered Event Deletion. There were five items to test and two vendors supported and passed testing against two servers.

The fifth part covered Access Control and no one either supports or tested any of the four test items.

The sixth part covered Calendar Management. Two vendors do not have support for this and another vendor only supports two of the six test items.

The seventh part of the test was Free Busy Reports. Only one vendor supported and tested this section. They tested and passed eleven items against one of the testing servers.

The eighth and final section tested Scheduling. There were 7 test cases and one vendor supported and passed four of the items against one server only. No other clients tested this section.

Following now are comments submitted by the test participants.