Email as Distributed Protocol Transport: How Meeting Invites Work
summary
Meeting invites are plain email messages carrying an iCalendar payload (often duplicated as an application/ics attachment and a text/calendar MIME part) and a verb from the ITIP/IMIP specs so clients update or RSVP. Clients use the event UID to reconcile updates. Examples show Google Calendar and Thunderbird/Sunbird exchanging invites over SMTP/IMAP, and a demo uses Python with the icalendar library plus a mail API to format and send the messages.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 13:35iCalendar objects consist of components
- 15:09iCalendar objects support meeting invites via methods, defined in iTIP
- 17:04Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)
- 29:49THE FUTURE
- 31:45Summary
- 32:50References
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