FREEBUSY Technical Committee

updated April 22 2011

Charter

Founding Purpose

The FREEBUSY Technical Committee was originally chartered to collaborate with The Open Group on their "Federated FREEBUSY Vendor Challenge", to produce a working, standards-based solution, using current products, to the problem:

Current Scope

TC-Freebusy promotes calendaring and scheduling interoperability with respect to the sharing, exchange, and leveraging of FREEBUSY information by:

Identifying and publishing use cases
Identifying opportunities to improve standards, both formal and informal
Proposing and developing change, extensions, and additions to extant RFC's to enable new calendaring/scheduling capabilities with respect to Freebusy data.
Liaising with organizations engaged in significant and relevant FREEBUSY projects
Informing the work of, and be informed by the work of, other CalConnect Technical Committees
Following industry trends and developments

Current Focus

TC-Freebusy is developing an approach to integrating the functionality of consensus scheduling and calendar polling services (such as , but not limited to, Doodle.com) into calendaring standards. This work may result in proposed changes or extensions to extant RFCs, and/or the definition of a new API or APIs.

Charter originally approved: 23 May 2006

Charter expires: 31 December 2011

Milestones and Work Products

Completed Work
	May-2006	Demonstration of rudimentary federated FREEBUSY queries
	Jul-2006	Demonstration of initial proof-of-concept implementation at The Open Group July Meeting using CalDAV FREEBUSY capabilities
		The Open Group Final Report
	Jan-2007	Test cases for IOPTEST; CalConnect Final Report
	Feb-2007	FREEBUSY URL discussions: simplify and standardize
	Sep-2007	FBURL technology preview at RT X
	Nov-2007	Meeting w/Danish Government to discuss FREEBUSY and their ekalender project
	Feb-2008	FBURL technology preview at RT XI
	Apr-2009	Freebusy Read URL Proposal Published
Work in Progress
		Consensus Scheduling - Investigating changes/extensions to RFC 5545, 5546 (and perhaps others) to allow calendaring systems to provide interoperable functionality similar to that of Doodle.com. VPOLL specification under development.
Milestones
	May-2010	Draft proposal to CalConnect membership
	Oct-2010	Potential submission to IETF
	Apr-2011	VAVAILABILITY Draft 2 submitted

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Co-Chairs

Mike Douglass. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:

Eric York, Apple Inc.

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