[uf-discuss] UID in iCalendar

[brian suda]

According to the RFC 4.8.4.7 Unique Identifier, the only to requirements
are:

1) Value Type: TEXT
2) Globally Unique

Any URL fits the TEXT requirement. As for globally unique, all URL only
resolve to a single location, so that makes it globally unique.  The
only caveat is that if you have two events, those each need to use a
unique URL, not just http://events.example.org, but instead
http://events.example.org/event/1234

The recommendation is just that, a recommendation, not a requirement.

-brian

Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
> Can UID in iCalendar be just a URL of the event? Do we have to adhere
> to the RFC2445's recommendation
> (http://rfc.net/rfc2445.html#s4.8.4.7), which is based on an
> email-style RFC822 addr-spec (http://rfc.net/rfc822.html#s6.1)?
>
> :DG<
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