There exists a number of different calendar protocal standards. The earliest appears to be ICAP, and is quite similar to IMAP. It never seemed to make it past the internet-draft stage however.
Netscape has another standard, called CAP. It's much more recent (March 10, 2000) and hopefully has a better chance at success.
While I think you're description of the history of XML is quite interesting, there are some inaccuracies in there which are somewhat misleading. Call me pedantic, but I have some issues with the following statement:
HTML and XML are related formats; in fact, HTML can be defined as a subset of XML.
This is a bit of a peeve of mine. HTML is an application of SGML, not a subset of SGML, and definately not a subset of XML.
A lot of stuff that's in HTML is not legal in XML, like the IMG tag and the OPTION tag:
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Yeah, but the latency will kill you!
Netscape has another standard, called CAP. It's much more recent (March 10, 2000) and hopefully has a better chance at success.
ICAP draft: http://www.ox.org/o x/projects/calendar/draft-oleary-icap-01.txt (There exists a version 4 of this draft, but I've been unable to find it)
CAP Draft: http://www.imc.org/draft-ietf-calsch-cap
Steve Ferris has a Java implementation of ICAP (both client and server) here: http://maelstrom.org.uk/
Actually, it was Shell, not Chevron that killed Saro-Wiwa, through their influence on the Nigerian military.
MOSOP has more information on Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni tribe:
http://www.mosopcanada.org/
Boycott Shell.
Call me pedantic, but I have some issues with the following statement:
HTML and XML are related formats; in fact, HTML can be defined as a subset of XML.
This is a bit of a peeve of mine. HTML is an application of SGML, not a subset of SGML, and definately not a subset of XML.
A lot of stuff that's in HTML is not legal in XML, like the IMG tag and the OPTION tag:
Which is why XHTML was created.
All systems are go here. Happy new year everyone.
kafer.