Interoperability thoughts:

• Import/export
  • apps: Eudora, Mozilla, Outlook, Notes, Palm
• PDA Sync, not phones until they get smart enough
  • Probably Palm & PocketPC^? (blackberry is too tied to enterprise)
• External reference to Chandler items or collections e.g. desktop shortcut or web URL
• Cut/copy/paste and drag and drop

• Lower priority:
  • Other file formats (e.g. PDF, doc, xls, mp3 ...)
  • Bookmarks? linking, collating web info?
  • Web services?

• Relevant PIM interoperation file formats:
  • Contacts: vCard
  • Calendar: .ics (iCalendar obj), iTip/iMip
  • Email: RFC 822, MIME, S/MIME
  • X.509 certs

• Standards/Protocols:
  • POP, IMAP
  • WebDAV
  • SyncML
  • Privacy/Security: SASL, PGP (?)
  • RSS/Atom

• Guiding principles:
  • What do early adopters need?
    • Focused on individual needs, not group or enterprise
  • Do not believe in walled gardens (hence need to export our data)
  • Support open standards as a principle in itself, but user needs are foremost
  • Focus on PIM application; less focus on Chandler as a repository platform (let open source take care of these needs)

• More work needed:
  • Understand scope & limitations of relevant standards
  • Understand trends & directions of relevant standards
  • Match tech affordances to market needs (?)

-- ChaoLam - 16 Jun 2004