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Oracle, Yahoo, Novell, Symbian, Mozilla...Yet Another Consortium

There is now a Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, formed by seven vendors, six universities, two open source foundations and a research facility.

The organization, which expects to be around for three-five years, is focused on the interoperable exchange of calendaring and scheduling information between dissimilar programs, platforms and technologies.

It's picking up work from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and says that currently standards-based systems from different vendors don't necessarily work together.

Founders include Oracle, Yahoo, Novell, Symbian, the Open Source Application Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, Jet Propulsion Lab, Duke, Stanford and MIT.

See www.calconnect.org.

Published Jan. 9, 2005 — Reads 9,745
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Dave Thewlis wrote: Thanks for the heads-up about the Consortium (familiarly known as "CalConnect". One thing -- we don't anticipate "taking over" work from the IETF precisely; we want to help drive the IETF standards work forward by doing related work such as use case and requirements, white papers, inteoperability testing -- and publicity and promotion. Think us us as doing the things the IETF doesn't do because it's not in their charter. Dave Thewlis Executive Director CalConnect--The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

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calendaritis wrote: time's a scarce organizational resource, calendaring is crucial - I welcome this initative

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