What is "calconnect"

CalConnect, the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing. The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling.

Although not a standards body itself, CalConnect played a significant role in the development IETF RFC’s relevant to calendaring and scheduling, most notably the CalDAV specification, RFC 4791, "Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)."