SIMPLE H. Schulzrinne
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CIPID: Contact Information in Presence Information Data Format
draft-ietf-simple-cipid-03
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Abstract
The Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) defines a basic XML
format for presenting presence information for a presentity. The
Contact Information for Presence Information Data Format (CIPID) is
an extension that adds elements to PIDF that provide additional
contact information about a presentity and its contacts, including
references to address book entries and icons.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. CIPID Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1 Card Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2 Display-Name Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3 Homepage Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.4 Icon Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.5 Map Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.6 Sound Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. The XML Schema Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.1 URN Sub-Namespace Registration for
'urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid' . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.2 Schema Registration for Schema
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid' . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 10
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1. Introduction
In its function of facilitating communication, the usefulness of
presence information can be enhanced by providing basic information
about a presentity or contact. This specification describes a basic
set of information elements that allow a watcher to retrieve
additional information about a presentity or contact.
This specification defines extensions to the PIDF [5] XML (Extensible
Markup Language) [6] document format.
We describe elements for providing a "business card", references to
the homepage, map, representative sound and an icon. All elements
can be used either for the whole presence document, extending the
<presence> element, or for an individual tuple, when they are added
to a <tuple> element.
This additional presence information can be used in PIDF [5]
documents, together with RPID [7], future-status [8] and other PIDF
extensions.
The namespace URI for these elements defined by this specification is
a URN [2], using the namespace identifier 'ietf' defined by [3] and
extended by [4]:
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid
All elements described in this document are optional and can be used
within the PIDF <presence> element.
2. Terminology and Conventions
The key words MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT,
RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL in this document are to be interpreted
as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119 [1].
3. CIPID Elements
The elements below refer to content using URIs. If the watcher
retrieves the content pointed to by the URI, it may provide hints
that it is currently using the presence application. Thus, for
increased watcher privacy, a presence application MAY want to cache
these objects for later use.
3.1 Card Element
The <card> element includes a URI pointing to a business card, e.g.,
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in LDIF [10] or vCard [9] format.
3.2 Display-Name Element
The <display-name> element includes the name identifying the tuple or
presentity that the presentity suggests should be shown by the
watcher user interface. It is up to watcher user interface to choose
whether to heed this suggestion or use some other suitable string.
3.3 Homepage Element
The <homepage> element provides a URI pointing to general information
about the tuple or presentity, typically a web home page.
3.4 Icon Element
The <icon> element provides a URI pointing to an image (icon)
representing the tuple or presentity. The watcher MAY use this
information to represent the tuple or presentity in a graphical user
interface. Presentities SHOULD provide images of sizes and aspect
ratios that are appropriate for rendering as an icon. Support for
JPEG, PNG and GIF formats is RECOMMENDED.
3.5 Map Element
The <map> element provides a URI pointing to a map related to the
tuple or presentity. The watcher MAY use this information to
represent the tuple or presentity in a graphical user interface. The
map may be either an image, an HTML client-side image map or a
geographical information system (GIS) document, e.g., encoded as GML.
Support for images formatted as PNG and GIF is RECOMMENDED.
3.6 Sound Element
The <sound> element provides a URI pointing to a sound related to the
tuple or presentity. The watcher MAY use the sound object, such as a
MIDI or MP3 file, referenced by the URL to inform the watcher that
the presentity has assumed the status OPEN. Implementors are advised
to create user interfaces that provide the watcher with the
opportunity to choose whether to play such sounds. Support for sounds
coded as MPEG-2 Layer 3 (MP3) is RECOMMENDED.
4. Example
An example, combining RPID and CIPID, is shown below:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<presence xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf"
xmlns:es="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:status:rpid-status"
xmlns:et="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:rpid-tuple"
xmlns:ci="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid"
entity="pres:someone@example.com">
<tuple id="b8xk">
<status>
<basic>closed</basic>
</status>
</tuple>
<tuple id="c8dqui">
<status>
<basic>open</basic>
</status>
<et:class>assistant</et:class>
<ci:homepage>http://example.com/~secretary</ci:homepage>
<ci:icon>http://example.com/~secretary/icon.gif</ci:icon>
<ci:card>http://example.com/~secretary/card.vcd</ci:card>
<et:relationship>assistant</et:relationship>
<et:contact-type>presentity</et:contact-type>
<contact>sip:secretary@example.com</contact>
<note>My secretary</note>
</tuple>
<ci:card>http://example.com/~someone/card.vcd</ci:card>
<ci:homepage>http://example.com/~someone</ci:homepage>
<ci:icon>http://example.com/~someone/icon.gif</ci:icon>
<ci:map>http://example.com/~someone/gml-map.xml</ci:map>
<ci:sound>http://example.com/~someone/whoosh.wav</ci:sound>
</presence>
5. The XML Schema Definition
The schema is shown below.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
elementFormDefault="qualified"
attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
<!-- This import brings in the XML language attribute xml:lang-->
<xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"/>
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation xml:lang="en">
Describes CIPID extensions for PIDF.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:element name="card" type="xs:anyURI"/>
<xs:element name="homepage" type="xs:anyURI"/>
<xs:element name="icon" type="xs:anyURI"/>
<xs:element name="map" type="xs:anyURI"/>
<xs:element name="sound" type="xs:anyURI"/>
</xs:schema>
Figure 1: CIPID schema
6. IANA Considerations
This document calls for IANA to register a new XML namespace URN and
schema per [4].
6.1 URN Sub-Namespace Registration for
'urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid'
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid
Description: This is the XML namespace for XML elements defined by
RFCXXXX to describe contact information presence information
extensions for the status element in the PIDF presence document
format in the application/pidf+xml content type.
Registrant Contact: IETF, SIMPLE working group, simple@ietf.org;
Henning Schulzrinne, hgs@cs.columbia.edu
XML:
BEGIN
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>CIPID -- Contact Information in Presence Information
Data Format</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Namespace for contact information presence extension (status)</h1>
<h2>urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid</h2>
<p>See <a href="URL of published RFC">RFCXXXX</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
END
6.2 Schema Registration for Schema urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid'
URI: please assign
Registrant Contact: IESG
XML: See Figure 1
7. Security Considerations
The security issues are similar to those for RPID [7]. Watchers need
to restrict which content types of content pointed to by <icon>,
<sound>, <map> and <vcard> elements they render.
Also, accessing these URIs may in turn provide hints that the watcher
is currently using the presence application. Thus, a presence
application may want to cache these objects for later use.
Icons and other URIs in this document could be used as a covert
channel to convey messages to the watcher, outside the content
monitoring that might be in place for instant messages or other
communications channels. Thus, entities that worry about such
channels may want to prohibit the usage of URLs pointing to resources
outside their domain, for example.
8. References
8.1 Normative References
[1] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[2] Moats, R., "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, May 1997.
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[3] Moats, R., "A URN Namespace for IETF Documents", RFC 2648,
August 1999.
[4] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688, January
2004.
[5] Sugano, H. and S. Fujimoto, "Presence Information Data Format
(PIDF)", draft-ietf-impp-cpim-pidf-08 (work in progress), May
2003.
[6] Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Maler, E. and F.
Yergeau, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition)",
W3C REC REC-xml-20040204, February 2004.
8.2 Informative References
[7] Schulzrinne, H., Gurbani, V., Kyzivat, P. and J. Rosenberg,
"RPID: Rich Presence: Extensions to the Presence Information
Data Format (PIDF)", draft-ietf-simple-rpid-03 (work in
progress), March 2004.
[8] Schulzrinne, H., "Timed Presence Extensions to the Presence
Information Data Format(PIDF) to Indicate Presence Information
for Past and Future Time Intervals",
draft-ietf-simple-future-01 (work in progress), April 2004.
[9] Dawson, F. and T. Howes, "vCard MIME Directory Profile", RFC
2426, September 1998.
[10] Good, G., "The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical
Specification", RFC 2849, June 2000.
Author's Address
Henning Schulzrinne
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
450 Computer Science Building
New York, NY 10027
US
Phone: +1 212 939 7042
EMail: hgs+simple@cs.columbia.edu
URI: http://www.cs.columbia.edu
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Appendix A. Acknowledgments
This document is based on the discussions within the IETF SIMPLE
working group. Aki Niemi, Vijay Gurbani, Hisham Khartabil, Paul
Kyzivat, Eva Leppanen, Mikko Lonnfors, Jon Peterson and Jonathan
Rosenberg provided helpful comments.
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