{"draft":"draft-ietf-calext-availability-04","doc_id":"RFC7953","title":"Calendar Availability","authors":["C. Daboo","M. Douglass"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"24","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Calendaring Extensions","abstract":"This document specifies a new iCalendar (RFC 5545) component that\r\nallows the publication of available and unavailable time periods\r\nassociated with a calendar user.  This component can be used in\r\nstandard iCalendar free-busy lookups, including the iCalendar\r\nTransport-independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP; RFC 5546)\r\nfree-busy requests, to generate repeating blocks of available or busy\r\ntime with exceptions as needed.\r\n\r\nThis document also defines extensions to the Calendaring Extensions\r\nto WebDAV (CalDAV) calendar access protocol (RFC 4791) and the\r\nassociated scheduling protocol (RFC 6638) to specify how this new\r\ncalendar component can be used when evaluating free-busy time.","pub_date":"August 2016","keywords":["availability","calendaring","free-busy","iCalendar","CalDAV"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC4791","RFC5545","RFC6638"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7953","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc7953"}