Introduction

Roundtable VII took place on September 26-29, 2006, hosted by Apple Computer in Cupertino, California. The event was attended by sixty representatives to the IOP testing and/or the Roundtable, including representatives from nine observers (organizations attending a Roundtable to see if they wish to join).

Tuesday September 26th and Wednesday morning the 27th were a dedicated CalConnect Interoperability Test Event where participating organizations performed interoperability testing on their calendaring and scheduling implementations. Wednesday morning a reprise of the Federated Free/Busy demo originally done at The Open Group meeting in Miami in July, 2006 was arranged. Wednesday afternoon, all day Thursday, and Friday morning comprised the Roundtable. The majority of this time was dedicated to technical committee sessions, with an all-hands Plenary meeting as the last item on Friday morning. The Technical Committee sessions were organized sequentially, to allow all attendees who wished to be involved in the discussions of a Technical Committee the opportunity to do so.