3. General Status and Items

An Adhoc Committee on the EU Time proposal to discontinue Summer Time has been created to submit an Advisory Report to the EU. We anticipate holding a workshop on this subject at CalConnect XLIV in February 2019.

TC DATETIME has been created to further CalConnect work on date and time formats and related issues, and to provide a “home” for our liaison with ISO TC 211 and ISO TC 154 and the drafts on ISO 8601-1 and 8601-2 on date and time formats and recurrences. Also timezone data model and how to announce TZ changes (management standard?)

TC LOCALIZATION has been created to further CalConnect work on localization of calendaring and schedule event information and related work such as address formats, and to provide a home for our liaison with ISO TC 37 in the area of naming and addressing.

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). To further this work, new CalConnect Standards Directives have been written to bring our document requirement and progression and publishing policies and procedures in line with ISO and other international standards organizations. The Plenary meeting approved a recommendation to the CalConnect Board of Directors to adopt the draft directives.

Feedback was obtained on the new conference format being tried at this event (as a one-time trial) as noted above. In general the format is well thought of, several adjustments were made to the schedule as the week progressed.

Formal testing was not done as part of the program at this event, although individuals are welcome to test as desired during the course of the meeting.