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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sending message to mailing list based on Cyrus Daboo’s suggestion. Can someone help? Based on what Cyrus said, looks like there is a revised json specification in works. Can someone please let us know how
we should proceed?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Vivek Kamath <Vivek_Kamath@ultimatesoftware.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 9:44 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"mozilla@kewis.ch" <mozilla@kewis.ch>, "cyrus@daboo.name" <cyrus@daboo.name>, "douglm@rpi.edu" <douglm@rpi.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Questions on rfc7265</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You guys are listed as authors on this RFC (<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7265)">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7265)</a> therefore sending this question. We are evaluating to use icalendar components
in our application and came across this spec that describes json encoding. The spec has entire json paload encoded as arrays of arrays. An example from the spec is as follows based on the rules specificed in section 3.3:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">["vcalendar",</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> [</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ["calscale", {}, "text", "GREGORIAN"],</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ["prodid", {}, "text", "-//Example Inc.//Example Calendar//EN"],</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ["version", {}, "text", "2.0"]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ],</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> [</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ["vevent",</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> [</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ["dtstamp", {}, "date-time", "2008-02-05T19:12:24Z"],</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ["dtstart", {}, "date", "2008-10-06"],</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ["summary", {}, "text", "Planning meeting"],</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ["uid", {}, "text", "4088E990AD89CB3DBB484909"]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ],</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> []</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Our needs are quite simple. We don’t need a very generic encoding mechanism like this. So we were envisioning something like:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">{</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "vcalendar": {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "calscale": "GREGORIAN",</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "prodid": "-//Example Inc.//Example Calendar//EN",</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "version": "2.0",</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "vevent": [</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "dtstamp": "2008-02-05T19:12:24Z",</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "dtstart": "2008-10-06",</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "summary": "Planning meeting",</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> "uid": "4088E990AD89CB3DBB484909"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> }</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> }</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">}</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I think this allows us to simplify the code to understand the event objects in our code. Is it possible to create a simplified version of the spec with assumed data types and default properties?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks much in advance,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Vivek </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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