WS-Calendar Version 1.0 approved as a Committee Specification

[Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS Members,

We are pleased to announce the approval of an OASIS Committee
Specification (CS) by the members of the OASIS Web Services Calendar
(WS-Calendar) TC:

WS-Calendar Version 1.0
Committee Specification 01
30 July 2011

Overview:
WS-Calendar describes
.       A semantic (or information) model for exchange of calendar
information to coordinate activities
.       A means of synchronizing and maintaining calendars

The specification includes XML vocabularies for the interoperable and
standard exchange of:
.       Schedules, including sequences of schedules
.       Intervals, including sequences of Intervals
.       Other calendar information consistent with the IETF iCalendar standards

These vocabularies describe schedules and Intervals future, present,
or past (historical).

The specification is divided into three parts.
1) The information model and XML vocabularies for exchanging schedule
information
2) RESTful Services for calendar update and synchronization
3) Web services for calendar update and synchronization

The Technical Committee will publish Parts 2 and 3 in a later version.

URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01.pdf

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01.html

Editable source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01.doc

Distribution ZIP files
Entire specification:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01.zip

Schemas:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-calendar/ws-calendar-spec/v1.0/cs01/xsd/ws-calendar-spec-v1.0-cs01-schemas.zip

Members of the OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) TC [1]
requested a Special Majority Vote to approve this specification as a
Committee Specification. The specification had been released for
public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve
at Committee Specification (CS) level passed [3], and the approved CS
01 is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.

Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone.

/chet
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Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org

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========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) TC
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-calendar

[2] Public review and CS approval
    15-day Public Review:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201106/msg00006.html
    15-day Public Review:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201104/msg00004.html
    60-day Public Review:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201009/msg00011.html

[3] CS ballot
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2073