4. Standards Development

As a protocol advances, our testing expands to accommodate the new specifications added to a protocol

• For example, Scheduling was added to CalDAV in the latter part of 2007.

• In 2008, we started testing vendor implementations of the specification

• This allows the vendors to see in real time how their applications perform against other products

  • Seeing quickly what works or doesn’t work allows the authors of the specification to make changes that will encourage interoperability

  • Case in point —at the October 2008 Interoperability Testing Event, 8 servers and 4 clients held CalDAV testing and two of the clients supported CalDAV Scheduling