Calendar Attributes for vCard and LDAP

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Abstract

When scheduling a calendar entity, such as an event, it is a
prerequisite that an organizer has the calendar address of each
attendee that will be invited to the event. Additionally, access to
an attendee's current "busy time" provides an a priori indication of
whether the attendee will be free to participate in the event.

In order to meet these challenges, a calendar user agent (CUA) needs
a mechanism to locate (URI) individual user's calendar and free/busy
time.

This memo defines three mechanisms for obtaining a URI to a user's
calendar and free/busy time. These include:

• Manual transfer of the information;

• Personal data exchange using the vCard format; and

• Directory lookup using the LDAP protocol.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2739