Ietf-types Digest, Vol 88, Issue 15

[Ron Wilson]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:00 AM,  <ietf-types-request at alvestrand.no> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:42:13 -0400
> From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb at guppylake.com>
>
> In other words:  iCal sucks but that's irrelevant.  Multiple syntaxes suck, but sometimes they're necessary.

If nothing else. failure to "standardize" an XML mapping will lead to
many custom mappings - if for no other reason than that XML is all the
rage. (At least until the next "XML" comes along. I remember when HDF
was "it".)