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Project Description
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:Author: Guillaume Ayoub
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:Date: 2010-01-22
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:Abstract: This document defines the main goals of the Radicale
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Project, what it covers and what it does not.
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.. contents::
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Main Goals
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The Radicale Project is a complete calendar and contact storing and
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manipulating solution. It can store multiple calendars and multiple address
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books.
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Calendar and contact manipulation is available from both local and distant
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accesses, possibly limited through authentication policies.
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What Radicale Is
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Calendar and Contact Server
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The Radicale Project is mainly a calendar and contact server, giving local and
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distant access for reading, creating, modifying and deleting multiple
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calendars through simplified CalDAV and CardDAV protocols.
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Data can be encrypted by SSL, and their access can be restricted using
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different authentication methods.
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What Radicale Is not and will not Be
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Calendar or Contact User Agent
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Radicale is a server, not a client. No interfaces will be created to work with
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the server, as it is a really (really really) much more difficult task [#]_.
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.. [#] I repeat: `we are lazy <http://www.radicale.org/technical_choices#lazy>`_.
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Original Calendar or Contact Access Protocol
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CalDAV and CardDAV are not perfect protocols. We think that their main problem is
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their complexity [#]_, that is why we decided not to implement the whole
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standard but just enough to understand some of its client-side implementations
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[#]_.
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CalDAV and CardDAV are the best open standards available and they are quite widely
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used by both clients and servers[#]_. We decided to use it, and we will not use
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another one.
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.. [#] Try to read :RFC:`4791`. Then try to understand it. Then try to
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implement it. Then try to read it again.
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.. [#] Radicale is `oriented to calendar user agents
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<http://www.radicale.org/technical_choices#oriented-to-calendar-user-agents>`_.
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.. [#] `CalDAV implementations
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV#Implementations>`_,
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by Wikipedia.
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