3.4. TC FREEBUSY
The TC hosted the Consensus Scheduling Workshop on Wednesday afternoon. The workshop covered the key aspects of consensus scheduling and described CalConnect’s proposed solution: VPOLL. The workshop started with a detailed overview of what consensus scheduling is, why people use it, and why standards — currently lacking — would enhance the process. This was followed by overviews of various products that do some form of consensus scheduling or booking. We then had a detailed overview of the VPOLL
specification, covering the key elements and recent changes made by the TC. This included a description of how the POLL-MODE
property will be used to define various modes and levels of complexity for polls. Initially there will be a simple “basic” mode that will be used as the basis for initial interoperability testing and will be used to encourage implementors to develop products. Going forward the TC will work on refinements to the VPOLL
specification based on feedback from implementors. We plan on VPOLL
testing at the next Interoperability Test Event event.