2. Update on Technical Committees and Initiatives

The following documents are about to finish Last Call and be published:

• The draft proposed RFC for the iCalendar←→XML transformation specification from TC XML

• The Freebusy Read URL draft proposed RFC from TC FREEBUSY

• The draft RESOURCE proposed RFC from TC EVENTPUB

The Calendar Standards Roadmap, which originally came out of TC-CalDAV, was enthusiastically discussed at this Roundtable, spawning work in new areas by several TC’s. This discussion is hopefully just the beginning of a longer, engaging conversation.

Calonnect and the World Wide Calendar: This brainstorming session for everyone attending the Roundtable was designed to get people’s heads up and have them look at the larger picture. We looked at calendaring issues beyond the institutions and corporations most of us represent. Interoperability on a world wide scale will begin to happen when soccer moms (or football mums!) can see when their child’s next game is and make appointments with their doctor as easily as keep a work schedule. We discussed social adaptations like ubiquitous cell phone conversations (maybe not a plus!) as well as the coming integration of calendaring with social networking sites like Facebook. We intend for this to be an ongoing discussions at Roundtables as we pull back from the (equally important) technical work to view calendaring from the viewpoint of the world at large.