2.4. Why a Consortium?

A focused environment to:

• Re-energize Calendaring and Scheduling

• Provide a forum to discuss the direction for standards and implementations

• Validate the existing standards

• Provide interoperability testing between implementations and against standards

• Drive requirements for changes to existing standards, new and complementary standards back into IETF, other bodies

• Where necessary develop initial specifications and submit them to SDOs for progression to standards

• Promote standards and technologies to the vendor and user communities