Comprehensive Errata for the 'retransmission-allowed' XML Element
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draft-ietf-sipcore-retransmission-allowed-fixes-05
sipcore B. Rosen
Internet-Draft Unaffiliated
Updates: 4119, 5606, 5774, 6442, 7378, 8262 (if J. Martin
approved) Comtech TCS
Intended status: Standards Track 30 March 2026
Expires: 1 October 2026
Comprehensive Errata for the 'retransmission-allowed' XML Element
draft-ietf-sipcore-retransmission-allowed-fixes-05
Abstract
This document fixes use of the 'retransmission-allowed' element of
PIDF-LO in six published RFCs. All text and examples should show
'true' or 'false' to match the XML schema definitions, but some RFCs
incorrectly use 'yes' or 'no'. This document updates RFC4119,
RFC5606, RFC5774, RFC6442, RFC7378, RFC8262.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Additional Copyright Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Changes to Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. RFC 4119 - A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format
(PIDF-LO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. RFC 5606 - Implications of 'retransmission-allowed' for SIP
Location Conveyance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3. RFC 5774 - Considerations for Civic Addresses in PIDF-LO:
Guidelines and IANA Registry Definition . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4. RFC 6442 - Location Conveyance for SIP . . . . . . . . . 8
2.5. RFC 7378 - Trustworthy Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.6. RFC 8262 - Content-ID Header Field in SIP . . . . . . . . 9
3. General guidance to implementers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1. Introduction
The PIDF Location Object (PIDF-LO) format defined by [RFC4119]
includes the <retransmission-allowed> element. Section 2.2.5 "Schema
Definitions" defines this element as a boolean data type as described
in W3C's "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes (Second Edition)" [XMLSCHEMA].
As a boolean data type, <retransmission-allowed> can have the
following values: 'true', 'false', '0', or '1'.
Unfortunately the examples in the text of RFC 4119 used values 'yes'
and 'no', which are not allowed per section 2.2.5 "Schema
Definitions". This problem was reported in errata id 1535
(https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid1535) in 2008, and verified in
2010.
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Since RFC 4119, there are another 13 RFCs with <retransmission-
allowed> example text. Despite the errata for RFC 4119, 5 of these
13 RFCs repeated the incorrect use of 'yes' and 'no' in their
examples of <retransmission-allowed>: [RFC5606], [RFC5774],
[RFC6442], [RFC7378], and [RFC8262]. The other 8 RFCs correctly use
'true' and 'false' in their examples: [RFC5580], [RFC5985],
[RFC6397], [RFC6753], [RFC6772], [RFC7199], [RFC7852], and [RFC8876].
Rather than submitting individual errata against those 5 RFCs'
incorrect examples of <retransmission-allowed>, this document updates
them all to replace all use of 'yes' with 'true', and all use of 'no'
with 'false'. The original RFC 4119 is also updated here for
completeness, to further confirm the existing errata id 1535 for RFC
4119.
This also incorporates fixes to namespace issues in the
<retransmission-allowed> examples in RFC4119 & RFC5774, as initially
reported in errata id 1771 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/
eid1771).
Finally, this incorporates all the fixes in errata ids 1535 & 1771 to
RFC4119. In addition to the <retransmission-allowed> fixes discussed
above, these two errata also have minor fixes for the discussion of
elements <retention-expiry> & <ruleset-reference>, and namespace
issues for the examples of <retention-expiry>.
1.1. Requirements Notation
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
1.2. Additional Copyright Notice
This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF
Contributions published or made publicly available before November
10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this
material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow
modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process.
Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling
the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified
outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may
not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format
it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other
than English.
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2. Changes to Documents
2.1. RFC 4119 - A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format (PIDF-
LO)
[RFC4119] section 2.2.2 page 8, replace:
'retransmission-allowed': When the value of this element is 'no',
the Recipient of this Location Object is not permitted to share
the enclosed Location Information, or the object as a whole, with
other parties. When the value of this element is 'yes',
distributing this Location is permitted (barring an existing out-
of-band agreement or obligation to the contrary). By default, the
value MUST be assumed to be 'no'. Implementations MUST include
this field, with a value of 'no', if the Rule Maker specifies no
preference.
With:
'retransmission-allowed': When the value of this element is
*'false'*, the Recipient of this Location Object is not permitted
to share the enclosed Location Information, or the object as a
whole, with other parties. When the value of this element is
*'true'*, distributing this Location is permitted (barring an
existing out-of-band agreement or obligation to the contrary). By
default, the value MUST be assumed to be *'false'*.
Implementations MUST include this field, with a value of
*'false'*, if the Rule Maker specifies no preference.
And replace:
'retention-expires': This field [...] in the 'retention-expires'
element [...]
'ruleset-reference': This field [...] HTTPS-based ruleset-
references into [...]
With:
*'retention-expiry'*: This field [...] in the *'retention-expiry'*
element [...]
*'external-ruleset'*: This field [...] HTTPS-based *external-
ruleset* into [...]
Section 2.3 "Example Location Objects", replace both occurrences of:
xmlns:gp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10"
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With:
xmlns:gp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10"
xmlns:gpb="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:basicPolicy"
And replace:
<gp:retransmission-allowed>no</gp:retransmission-allowed>
<gp:retention-expiry>2003-06-23T04:57:29Z</gp:retention-expiry>
With:
<gpb:retransmission-allowed>false</gpb:retransmission-allowed>
<gpb:retention-expiry>2003-06-23T04:57:29Z</gpb:retention-expiry>
And replace:
<gp:retransmission-allowed>yes</gp:retransmission-allowed>
<gp:retention-expiry>2003-06-23T04:57:29Z</gp:retention-expiry>
With:
<gpb:retransmission-allowed>yes</gpb:retransmission-allowed>
<gpb:retention-expiry>2003-06-23T04:57:29Z</gpb:retention-expiry>
2.2. RFC 5606 - Implications of 'retransmission-allowed' for SIP
Location Conveyance
[RFC5606] Section 2, replace:
These questions and concerns are particularly problematic when
<retransmission-allowed> is set to "no" (the default case). This
core concern might be put as "to whom does <retransmission-
allowed> apply in location-based routing?" More specifically:
Is any entity that reads LI bound by <retransmission-allowed>? If
so, does that mean a proxy that performs location-based routing is
unable to forward a request and complete a SIP call if
<retransmission-allowed> is "no"? Alternatively, must they strip
the location body from the message in order to complete the call?
If the proxy does not understand RFC 4119, it may forward a SIP
message containing a policy statement <retransmission-allowed> set
to "no". Is any proxy that does understand RFC 4119 required to
parse the LI for this statement, even if it would not do so in
order to route the message?
With:
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These questions and concerns are particularly problematic when
<retransmission-allowed> is set to *"false"* (the default case).
This core concern might be put as "to whom does <retransmission-
allowed> apply in location-based routing?" More specifically:
Is any entity that reads LI bound by <retransmission-allowed>? If
so, does that mean a proxy that performs location-based routing is
unable to forward a request and complete a SIP call if
<retransmission-allowed> is *"false"*? Alternatively, must they
strip the location body from the message in order to complete the
call?
If the proxy does not understand RFC 4119, it may forward a SIP
message containing a policy statement <retransmission-allowed> set
to *"false"*. Is any proxy that does understand RFC 4119 required
to parse the LI for this statement, even if it would not do so in
order to route the message?
Section 3.1, replace:
After extensive discussion in both GEOPRIV and SIP contexts, there
seems to be consensus that a solution for this problem must enable
location-based routing to work even when the <retransmission-
allowed> flag is set to "no".
With:
After extensive discussion in both GEOPRIV and SIP contexts, there
seems to be consensus that a solution for this problem must enable
location-based routing to work even when the <retransmission-
allowed> flag is set to *"false"*.
Section 3.2, replace:
Because of this presumption, one SIP element may pass the LI to
another even if the LO it contains has <retransmission-allowed>
set to "no"; this sees the passing of the SIP message as part of
the delivery to authorized recipients, rather than as
retransmission. SIP entities are still enjoined from passing
these messages outside the normal routing to external entities if
<retransmission-allowed> is set to "no", as it is the passing to
third parties that <retransmission-allowed> is meant to control.
With:
Because of this presumption, one SIP element may pass the LI to
another even if the LO it contains has <retransmission-allowed>
set to *"false"*; this sees the passing of the SIP message as part
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of the delivery to authorized recipients, rather than as
retransmission. SIP entities are still enjoined from passing
these messages outside the normal routing to external entities if
<retransmission-allowed> is set to *"false"*, as it is the passing
to third parties that <retransmission-allowed> is meant to
control.
Section 3.5, replace:
"Location-Routing-Allowed" being set to "No" has no protocol-level
mechanism for enforcement of this behavior; like the PIDF-LO
<retransmission-allowed> being set to "no", it is a way for the
Rule Maker to express a preference to the SIP elements, which are
LI recipients.
With:
"Location-Routing-Allowed" being set to "No" has no protocol-level
mechanism for enforcement of this behavior; like the PIDF-LO
<retransmission-allowed> being set to *"false"*, it is a way for
the Rule Maker to express a preference to the SIP elements, which
are LI recipients.
Section 3.6, replace:
Where the B2BUA in fact does act as an endpoint (terminating the
session and originating a different session), <retransmission-
allowed> applies to it, and it must not copy location if
<retransmission-allowed> is "no".
With:
Where the B2BUA in fact does act as an endpoint (terminating the
session and originating a different session), <retransmission-
allowed> applies to it, and it must not copy location if
<retransmission-allowed> is *"false"*.
2.3. RFC 5774 - Considerations for Civic Addresses in PIDF-LO:
Guidelines and IANA Registry Definition
[RFC5774] Section A.5 "Example", replace:
xmlns:gp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10"
With:
xmlns:gp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10"
xmlns:gpb="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:basicPolicy"
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And replace:
<gp:retransmission-allowed>yes</gp:retransmission-allowed>
<gp:retention-expiry>2009-11-10T12:00:00Z</gp:retention-expiry>
With:
<gpb:retransmission-allowed>true</gpb:retransmission-allowed>
<gpb:retention-expiry>2009-11-10T12:00:00Z</gpb:retention-expiry>
2.4. RFC 6442 - Location Conveyance for SIP
[RFC6442] section 4.4 page 18, replace:
This location error is specific to having the PIDF-LO [RFC4119]
<retransmission-allowed> element set to "no". This location error
is stating it requires permission (i.e., PIDF-LO <retransmission-
allowed> element set to "yes") to process this SIP request
further. If the LS sending the location information does not want
to give this permission, it will not change this permission in a
new request. If the LS wants this message processed with the
<retransmission-allowed> element set to "yes", it MUST choose
another logical path (if one exists) for this SIP request.
With:
This location error is specific to having the PIDF-LO [RFC4119]
<retransmission-allowed> element set to *"false"*. This location
error is stating it requires permission (i.e., PIDF-LO
<retransmission-allowed> element set to *"true"*) to process this
SIP request further. If the LS sending the location information
does not want to give this permission, it will not change this
permission in a new request. If the LS wants this message
processed with the <retransmission-allowed> element set to
*"false"*, it MUST choose another logical path (if one exists) for
this SIP request.
Errata id 4236 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid4236)
incorrectly includes the following text
Section 5.1, 5.2 says:
<gbp:retransmission-allowed>false
</gbp:retransmission-allowed>
It should say:
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<gbp:retransmission-allowed>no
</gbp:retransmission-allowed>
Sections 5.1 and 5.2 of RFC6442 are correct without any need for this
errata id 4236. This errata should be ignored.
2.5. RFC 7378 - Trustworthy Location
[RFC7378] section 6 page 25, replace:
as noted in RFC5606, Section 3.2:
... Because of this presumption, one SIP element may pass the
LI to another even if the LO it contains has <retransmission-
allowed> set to "no"; this sees the passing of the SIP message
as part of the delivery to authorized recipients, rather than
as retransmission. SIP entities are still enjoined from
passing these messages outside the normal routing to external
entities if <retransmission-allowed> is set to "no", as it is
the passing to third parties that <retransmission-allowed> is
meant to control.
With:
as noted in RFC5606, Section 3.2:
... Because of this presumption, one SIP element may pass the
LI to another even if the LO it contains has <retransmission-
allowed> set to *"false"*; this sees the passing of the SIP
message as part of the delivery to authorized recipients,
rather than as retransmission. SIP entities are still enjoined
from passing these messages outside the normal routing to
external entities if <retransmission-allowed> is set to
*"false"*, as it is the passing to third parties that
<retransmission-allowed> is meant to control.
2.6. RFC 8262 - Content-ID Header Field in SIP
[RFC8262] section 1.4.1 "Example 1", replace:
<gbp:retransmission-allowed>no
</gbp:retransmission-allowed>
With:
<gbp:retransmission-allowed>false
</gbp:retransmission-allowed>
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3. General guidance to implementers
Implementations that create <retransmission-allowed> MUST use only
values 'true', 'false', '0', or '1' as required by the schema in
section 2.2.5 of [RFC4119]. Implementations that create SHOULD use
only values 'true' and 'false'.
Implementations that accept <retransmission-allowed> MUST handle
values 'true', 'false', '0', and '1'. Implementations that accept
SHOULD treat values 'yes' & 'no' as synonyms for 'true' & 'false'.
4. Security Considerations
The changes in this document do not require additional security
considerations beyond those already noted in the individual RFCs
affected by this RFC.
5. IANA Considerations
None
6. References
6.1. Normative References
[RFC4119] Peterson, J., "A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object
Format", RFC 4119, DOI 10.17487/RFC4119, December 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4119>.
[RFC5606] Peterson, J., Hardie, T., and J. Morris, "Implications of
'retransmission-allowed' for SIP Location Conveyance",
RFC 5606, DOI 10.17487/RFC5606, August 2009,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5606>.
[RFC5774] Wolf, K. and A. Mayrhofer, "Considerations for Civic
Addresses in the Presence Information Data Format Location
Object (PIDF-LO): Guidelines and IANA Registry
Definition", BCP 154, RFC 5774, DOI 10.17487/RFC5774,
March 2010, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5774>.
[RFC6442] Polk, J., Rosen, B., and J. Peterson, "Location Conveyance
for the Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 6442,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6442, December 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6442>.
[RFC7378] Tschofenig, H., Schulzrinne, H., and B. Aboba, Ed.,
"Trustworthy Location", RFC 7378, DOI 10.17487/RFC7378,
December 2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7378>.
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[RFC8262] Holmberg, C. and I. Sedlacek, "Content-ID Header Field in
the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 8262,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8262, October 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8262>.
[XMLSCHEMA]
"XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition", 28 October
2004, <https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/>. See section
3.2.2 boolean
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.
6.2. Informative References
[RFC5580] Tschofenig, H., Ed., Adrangi, F., Jones, M., Lior, A., and
B. Aboba, "Carrying Location Objects in RADIUS and
Diameter", RFC 5580, DOI 10.17487/RFC5580, August 2009,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5580>.
[RFC5985] Barnes, M., Ed., "HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)",
RFC 5985, DOI 10.17487/RFC5985, September 2010,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5985>.
[RFC6397] Manderson, T., "Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT)
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Routing Information Export
Format with Geo-Location Extensions", RFC 6397,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6397, October 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6397>.
[RFC6753] Winterbottom, J., Tschofenig, H., Schulzrinne, H., and M.
Thomson, "A Location Dereference Protocol Using HTTP-
Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)", RFC 6753,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6753, October 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6753>.
[RFC6772] Schulzrinne, H., Ed., Tschofenig, H., Ed., Cuellar, J.,
Polk, J., Morris, J., and M. Thomson, "Geolocation Policy:
A Document Format for Expressing Privacy Preferences for
Location Information", RFC 6772, DOI 10.17487/RFC6772,
January 2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6772>.
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[RFC7199] Barnes, R., Thomson, M., Winterbottom, J., and H.
Tschofenig, "Location Configuration Extensions for Policy
Management", RFC 7199, DOI 10.17487/RFC7199, April 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7199>.
[RFC7852] Gellens, R., Rosen, B., Tschofenig, H., Marshall, R., and
J. Winterbottom, "Additional Data Related to an Emergency
Call", RFC 7852, DOI 10.17487/RFC7852, July 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7852>.
[RFC8876] Rosen, B., Schulzrinne, H., Tschofenig, H., and R.
Gellens, "Non-interactive Emergency Calls", RFC 8876,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8876, September 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8876>.
Contributors
Gordon Hines
Comtech TCS
2401 Elliott Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
United States of America
Email: skip.hines@comtech.com
Roger Marshall
Comtech TCS
2401 Elliott Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
United States of America
Email: roger.marshall@comtech.com
Victor Burton
Comtech TCS
2401 Elliott Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
United States of America
Email: victor.burton@comtech.com
Authors' Addresses
Brian Rosen
Unaffiliated
Mars, PA
United States of America
Email: br@brianrosen.net
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Jeff Martin
Comtech TCS
2401 Elliott Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
United States of America
Email: jeff.martin@comtech.com
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