3. General Status and Items

A new TC CALSPAM has been created to work on calendar spam best practices, a joint effort with M3AAWG, and is actively working on a best practices document. The work has been at both the latest M3AAWG conference and our Tokyo conference.

A new TC STREAMING has been created from the Ad Hoc previously set up. Its first task will be the devleopment of the specification.

TC IOPTEST was closed as its function has been subsumed into the Event Planning committee and process.

CalConnect is planning to resume its practice of self-publishing standards, which hasn’t been done for some time as much of its work has focused on extensions to existing IETF specifications (many of which were also developed by CalConnect). A new Ad Hoc on Publishing has been set up to review the obsolete processes and establish new ones. CalConnect also intends to begin co-publishing some documents with other organizations with which we have liaisons.

The TC CHAIRS committee has been renamed the Technical Coordination Commitee to better reflect the role and responsibilities of this group.

A new work area has been proposed on “Party Crashing” — event invitations can be forwarded to uninvited persons who then can spoof the the systems to gain an invitation.

The work on CALSPAM has proposed a new work item on establishing a mechanism whereby users can determine where an event on their calendar came from.

More discussion was held on a proposal for a completely revised conference format for CalConnect, which would offer both the Conference Track and a Technical Track as a single event with a single fee. This matter is being proposed for a one-time test at the next (Karlsruhe) event.

Status provided on synchronization (time to draft a spec?), server-side subscriptions, series as an alternative to recurrences.