The Reefknot project has decided to take a "toolkit" approach to developing iCalendar-compliant software. That is, we hope to develop a set of tools and libraries which make it easy for people to develop iCalendar software. We hope that this will help rapidly multiply the number of calendaring tools and systems available, giving users even greater choice and letting us further reap the benefits outlined above.
It is our hope that the Reefknot toolkit will allow a competent developer to put together simple, interoperable calendaring tools in only a few lines of code.
The buzzword list:
interoperability
platform independence
standards compliance
component architecture
fast development of custom applications