What is ical calendar software#

This resolved some ambiguities from the original standard as well as deprecated a few features that were no longer needed. The iCalendar standard was refined in 2009 as RFC 5545 and edited by Bernard Desruisseaux of Oracle Corporation. This interoperability continues to the present day extending support to new technologies such as web site calendar services, smart phones and tablets.

What is ical calendar software#

The pairing of these two individuals from competing software companies highlighted the need at that time for companies to work together to provide interoperability standards between calendar products. This document was authored by Frank Dawson of Lotus Notes Corporation (now owned by IBM) and Derik Stenerson of Microsoft Corporation. ICalendar was first defined as a standard as RFC 2445 in 1998 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The iCalendar open standard should not be confused with iCal, the former name for the commercial product 'Calendar' developed by Apple Computer. iCalendar files typically have the file extension '.ical' '.ics' '.ifb' or '.icalendar' with a MIME type of 'text/calendar'. The standard allows products from many vendors to transfer calendar information between each other. ICalendar is a standard method of transferring calendar information between computer systems.