Introduction

The document came about in an effort to compile, in one location, a common set of terminology with respect to calendaring and scheduling applications and standards. The document incorporates terminology already existing in calendaring standards such as IETF RFC 5545 (Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification), IETF RFC 5546 (iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP)), IETF RFC 6047 (iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)), IETF RFC 4791 (Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)) as well as input from members of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect).

Some glossary terms may not appear in published standards today. These are common calendaring terms that are included so that everyone refers to components in the same manner.

As new standards evolve, the glossary will serve as a resource for those creating documents so that all the standards share a common set of terms.

Calendaring and scheduling implementers will be able to utilize the glossary to assist them as they read and decipher calendaring standards. Calendaring and scheduling users will be able to use the glossary to help them better understand the terminology deployed by applications written using calendaring standards.