SIPPING                                                     J. Rosenberg
Internet-Draft                                               dynamicsoft
Expires: November 19, 2004                                H. Schulzrinne
                                                     Columbia University
                                                           O. Levin, Ed.
                                                   Microsoft Corporation
                                                            May 21, 2004


    A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference
                                 State
                draft-ietf-sipping-conference-package-04

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Abstract

   This document defines a conference event package for the Session
   Initiation Protocol (SIP) Events framework, along with a data format
   used in notifications for this package.  The conference package
   allows users to subscribe to a conference URI.  Notifications are
   sent about changes in the membership of this conference and
   optionally about changes in the state of additional conference
   components.



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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Conference Event Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.1   Event Package Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.2   SUBSCRIBE Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.3   Subscription Duration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.4   NOTIFY Bodies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.5   Notifier Processing of SUBSCRIBE Requests  . . . . . . . .  6
     3.6   Notifier Generation of NOTIFY Requests . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.7   Subscriber Processing of NOTIFY Requests . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.8   Handling of Forked Requests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.9   Rate of Notifications  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.10  State Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   4.  Conference Data Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     4.1   Conference Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       4.1.1   User Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
         4.1.1.1   User Attributes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
         4.1.1.2   User Status Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
         4.1.1.3   Media Stream Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       4.1.2   Sidebar Element  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.1.3   Additional Conference Identifiers  . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.1.4   Policy URIs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     4.2   Constructing Coherent State  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.2.1   User and Sidebar Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
       4.2.2   Conference and Policy Identifiers Updates  . . . . . . 14
     4.3   Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     4.4   Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   5.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   6.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     6.1   conference Event Package Registration  . . . . . . . . . . 20
     6.2   application/conference-info+xml MIME Registration  . . . . 20
     6.3   URN Sub-Namespace Registration for
           urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:conference-info . . . . . . . . . . 20
     6.4   XML Schema Registration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
   7.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
   8.  Changes History  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     8.1   Changes since -03  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     8.2   Changes since -02  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     8.3   Changes since -01  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
   9.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   9.1   Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   9.2   Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
       Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
       Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 27





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1.  Introduction

   The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) [6] Events framework Events
   Framework [7] defines general mechanisms for subscribing to, and
   receiving notifications of, events within SIP networks.  It
   introduces the notion of a package, which is a specific
   "instantiation" of the events framework for a well-defined set of
   events.  Here, we define an event package for SIP conferences.  This
   package provides the conference notification service as outlined in
   the SIP conferencing framework [13].  As described there,
   subscriptions to a conference URI are routed to the focus that is
   handling the conference.  It acts as the notifier, and provides
   clients with updates on conference state.

   The information provided by this package is comprised of conference
   identifier(s), conference participants (optionally with their
   statuses and media description), conference sidebars, and conference
   policy URIs.

































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2.  Terminology

   In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED",
   "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY",
   and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2] and
   indicate requirement levels for compliant implementations.













































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3.  Conference Event Package

   The conference event package allows a user to subscribe to a
   conference.  In SIP, conferences are represented by URIs.  These URIs
   route to a SIP user agent, called a focus, that is responsible for
   ensuring that all users in the conference can communicate with each
   other, as described in Conferencing Framework [13].  The focus has
   sufficient information about the state of the conference to inform
   subscribers about it.

   It is possible a participant in the conference may in fact be another
   focus.  In order to provide a more complete participant list, the
   focus MAY subscribe to the conference package of the other focus to
   discover the participant list in the cascaded conference.  This
   information can then be included in notifications by using of the
   "cascaded-focus" attribute as specified by this package.

   This section provides the details for defining a SIP Events package,
   as specified by RFC 3265 [7].

3.1  Event Package Name

   The name of this event package is "conference".  This package name is
   carried in the Event and Allow-Events header, as defined in RFC 3265
   [7].

3.2  SUBSCRIBE Bodies

   A SUBSCRIBE for a conference package MAY contain a body.  This body
   defines a filter to apply to the subscription.  Filter documents are
   not specified in this document, and at the time of writing, are
   expected to be the subject of future standardization activity.

   A SUBSCRIBE for a conference package MAY be sent without a body.
   This implies the default subscription filtering policy.  The default
   policy is:
   o  Notifications are generated every time there is any change in the
      state of the conference.
   o  Notifications do not normally contain full state; rather, they
      only indicate the state that has changed.  The exception is a
      NOTIFY sent in response to a SUBSCRIBE.  These NOTIFYs contain the
      full state of the information requested by the subscriber.

3.3  Subscription Duration

   The default expiration time for a subscription to a conference is one
   hour.  Once the conference ends, all subscriptions to that particular
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   [7].

3.4  NOTIFY Bodies

   As described in RFC 3265 [7], the NOTIFY message will contain bodies
   that describe the state of the subscribed resource.  This body is in
   a format listed in the Accept header field of the SUBSCRIBE, or a
   package-specific default if the Accept header field was omitted from
   the SUBSCRIBE.

   In this event package, the body of the notification contains a
   conference information document.  This document describes the state
   of a conference.  All subscribers and notifiers MUST support the
   "application/conference-info+xml" data format described in Section 4.
   The subscribe request MAY contain an Accept header field.  If no such
   header field is present, it has a default value of "application/
   conference-info+xml".  If the header field is present, it MUST
   include "application/conference-info+xml", and MAY include any other
   types capable of representing dialog state.

   Of course, the notifications generated by the server MUST be in one
   of the formats specified in the Accept header field in the SUBSCRIBE
   request.

3.5  Notifier Processing of SUBSCRIBE Requests

   The conference information contains very sensitive information.
   Therefore, all subscriptions SHOULD be authenticated and then
   authorized before approval.  Authorization policy is at the
   discretion of the administrator, as always.  However, a few
   recommendations can be made.

   It is RECOMMENDED that all users in the conference be allowed to
   subscribe to the conference.

3.6  Notifier Generation of NOTIFY Requests

   Notifications SHOULD be generated for the conference whenever there
   is a change in the state in any of the information delivered to the
   subscriber.

   The changes generally occur when a new participant joins (i.e.  gets
   "connected" to) or a participant leaves (i.e.  gets "disconnected"
   from) the conference.

   Subject to a local focus policy, additional changes in participant's
   status, changes in its media types, and other optional media
   attributes MAY be reported by the focus.



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   Changes in sidebar rosters SHOULD be reported by the focus to their
   participants and MAY be reported to others, subject to local policy.

   Changes in conference identifiers and policy URIs SHOULD be reported
   by the focus to the conference participants.

3.7  Subscriber Processing of NOTIFY Requests

   The SIP Events framework expects packages to specify how a subscriber
   processes NOTIFY requests in any package specific ways, and in
   particular, how it uses the NOTIFY requests to contruct a coherent
   view of the state of the subscribed resource.

   Typically, the NOTIFY for the conference package will only contain
   information about those users whose state in the conference has
   changed.  To construct a coherent view of the total state of all
   users, a subscriber to the conference package will need to combine
   NOTIFYs received over time.

   Notifications within this package can convey partial information;
   that is, they can indicate information about a subset of the state
   associated with the subscription.  This means that an explicit
   algorithm needs to be defined in order to construct coherent and
   consistent state.  The details of this mechanism are specific to the
   particular document type.  See Section 4.2 for information on
   constructing coherent information from an application/
   conference-info+xml document.

3.8  Handling of Forked Requests

   By their nature, the conferences supported by this package are
   centralized.  Therefore, SUBSCRIBE requests for a conference should
   not generally fork.  Users of this package MUST NOT install more than
   a single subscription as a result of a single SUBSCRIBE request.

3.9  Rate of Notifications

   For reasons of congestion control, it is important that the rate of
   notifications not become excessive.  As a result, it is RECOMMENDED
   that the server not generate notifications for a single subscriber at
   a rate faster than once every 5 seconds.

3.10  State Agents

   Conference state is ideally maintained in the element in which the
   conference resides.  Therefore, the elements that maintain the
   conference are the ones best suited to handle subscriptions to it.
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4.  Conference Data Format

   Conference information is an XML document that MUST be well-formed
   and SHOULD be valid.  Dialog information documents MUST be based on
   XML 1.0 and MUST be encoded using UTF-8.  This specification makes
   use of XML namespaces for identifying dialog information documents
   and document fragments.  The namespace URI for elements defined by
   this specification is a URN [3], using the namespace identifier
   'ietf' defined by [4] and extended by [1].  This URN is:


   urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:conference-info

   A conference information document begins with the root element tag
   "conference-info".

4.1  Conference Information

   Conference information begins with the top level element
   "conference-info".  This element has three mandatory and one optional
   attributes:
   version: This mandatory attribute allows the recipient of conference
      information documents to properly order them.  Versions start at 0
      and increment by one for each new document sent to a subscriber.
      Versions are scoped within a subscription.  Versions MUST be
      represented using a 32 bit integer.
   state: This mandatory attribute indicates whether the document
      contains the full conference information, or whether it contains
      only the information that has changed since the previous document
      (partial).
   entity: This mandatory attribute contains the conference URI that
      identifies the conference being described in the document.
   recording: This optional attribute indicates whether the conference
      is being recorded at this moment ("on") or not ("off").

   The "conference-info" element has zero or more "user" sub-elements
   which contain information on the users in the conference.  This is
   followed by zero or more "sidebar" sub-elements which contain
   information on the sidebars in the conference.  This is followed by
   zero or more "conf-uri" sub-elements which contain information on
   additional URIs that the conference can be accessed by.  This is
   followed by zero or more "policy-uri" sub-elements which contain
   information on additional URIs that the conference policies can be
   accessed by.

4.1.1  User Element





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4.1.1.1  User Attributes

   The user element has one mandatory attribute, "uri" that indicates
   the URI for the user in the conference.  This is a logical
   identifier, which corresponds to the authenticated identity of the
   participant.  The "uri" attribute MUST be unique in the user element
   list because it is used as the key in partial notifications about
   users' state.

   If a conference participant has more than a single signaling dialog
   associated with the conference, the conference focus MAY present the
   user's aggregated information (e.g.  the statuses) and display all
   its media streams under a single user element.

   Note, that the optional element "dialog-uri" of "media-stream" (see
   below) MAY be used in this case to specify the actual signaling
   dialog for each media stream.

   An anonymous participant in a conference SHOULD be represented by an
   anonymous URI generated by the focus.  For multiple anonymous
   participants, the focus must ensure that each anonymous URI is
   unique.  The guidelines for generating anonymous URIs in RFC 3323 [8]
   should be followed.  For example,

   "Anonymous1" <sip:anonymous1@anonymous.invalid>

    could be used for a participant requesting privacy.

   The optional attribute "display-name" contains a display name for the
   user.  The standard "xml:lang" language attribute can also be present
   to indicate the language of the display-name.

   The optional attribute "cascaded-focus" contains a conference URI
   (different from the main conference URI) for users that are connected
   to the main conference as a result of focus cascading.  In accordance
   with the SIP conferencing framework [13], this package allows for
   representation of peer-to-peer (i.e.  "flat") focus cascading only.
   The actual cascading graph can not be deduced from the information
   provided in the package alone.  Advanced applications can construct
   the graph by subscribing to both this package and the Dialog Package
   [14] of the cascaded foci and correlating the relevant information.

4.1.1.2  User Status Elements

   Three optional status elements are defined: status, joining-mode, and
   disconnection-reason.
   o  "status": provides information about user's current level of
      participation in the conference.



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   o  "joining-mode": if present, provides information about the way the
      user joined the conference.
   o  "disconnection-reason": if present, provides information about the
      way the user left the conference.

   The following statuses are defined for the "status" element:
   connected: The user is a participant in the conference.  Depending on
      the media policies, he/she can send and receive media to and from
      other participants.
   disconnected: The user is not a participant in the conference and no
      active dialog exists between the user and the focus.
   on-hold: Active SIP dialog exists between a user and a focus, but
      user is "on-hold" for this conference, i.e.  neither he/she is
      "hearing" the conference mix, nor is his/her media being mixed in
      the conference.  As an example, the user has asked to join the
      conference using SIP, but his/her participation is pending based
      on moderator approval.  In the meantime he/she is hearing
      music-on-hold or some other kind of related content.
   muted-by-focus: Active SIP dialog exists between a user and a focus
      and the user can "listen" to the conference, but user's media is
      not being mixed into the conference.  Note that sometimes a subset
      of user media streams can be muted by focus (such as poor quality
      video) while others (such as voice or IM) can still be active.  In
      this case, it is RECOMMENDED that the "aggregated" user
      connectivity "status" reflects the status of the active media.

   The following statuses are defined for the "joining-mode" element:
   dialed-in: The user dialed into the conference, i.e.  sent INVITE to
      the focus, which resulted in successful dialog establishment.
   dialed-out: The focus has brought the user into the conference by
      sending a successful INVITE to the user.
   focus-owner: The user is the focus for this conference.  This status
      is used only when a participant UA acts as a conference focus
      being identified by its own AOR or GRUU.

   The following statuses are defined for the disconnection-reason
   element:
   departed: The user sent a BYE, thus leaving the conference.
   booted: The user was sent a BYE by the focus, booting him/her out of
      the conference.  Alternatively, the user tried to dial into to
      conference without success because was rejected by the focus
      according to local policy decisions.
   failed: The server tried to bring the user into the conference, but
      its attempt to contact the specific user resulted in a non-200
      class final response.  Alternatively, the user tried to dial into
      the conference without success due to technical reasons.





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4.1.1.3  Media Stream Information

   Each user has zero or more "media-stream" sub-elements.

   Each "media-stream" element indicates the media stream that the user
   is currently connected to.  Here, "connected to" implies that a user
   has a media line in his/her SDP [11] document(s).  With this
   definition, a user is connected to a media stream even if he/she is
   not sending any media.

   The "media-stream" element has a mandatory "media-type" attribute
   which identifies the media type (e.g.  audio, video, message and
   application) and MUST have one of the values registered for "media"
   of SDP [11].

   The "media-stream" element has also an optional "proto" sub-element,
   which MUST has the value registered for "proto" of SDP [11].

   An optional "ssrc" sub-element, if present, carries the value of SSRC
   (defined in RTP/RTCP [10]) as generated by the user for the stream it
   sends.

   When an RTP mixer generates a CSRC list according to RTP/RTCP [10],
   it inserts a list of the SSRC identifiers of the sources that
   contributed to the generation of a particular packet into the RTP
   header of that packet.  "An example application is audio conferencing
   where a mixer indicates all the talkers whose speech was combined to
   produce the outgoing packet, allowing the receiver to indicate the
   current talker, even though all the audio packets contain the same
   SSRC identifier (that of the mixer)."

   An optional "info" sub-element, if present, carries a human readable
   description for this stream populated by the focus.  The value of
   this element corresponds to the information media attribute "i" in
   SDP [11].

   An optional "label" sub-element, if present, carries a unique
   identifier for this stream among all streams in the conference and is
   assigned by the focus.  The value of this element corresponds to the
   "label" media attribute in SDP [11] and defined in [17].

   An optional "dialog-id" sub-element, if present, carries a URI, which
   MUST uniquely identify the signaling dialog being used for
   establishing of this media stream.  In SIP, for example, values of
   Contact URI or GRUU [16] can be used for this purpose.  It is
   RECOMMENDED to include the "dialog-id" information for every user
   that has more than a single dialog associated with the conference.
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4.1.2  Sidebar Element

   The sidebar element has one attribute - "entity", which carries the
   URI identifying the sidebar.  This URI MUST be unique among the
   sidebar identifiers of the same conference.  Attribute "entity" is
   used as the key in partial notifications about sidebars of a
   conference.

   A sidebar has zero or more users of "user-type".

4.1.3  Additional Conference Identifiers

   In addition to the Conference URI present in the "entity" attribute,
   a conference MAY have additional URIs of various types.  Connecting
   to these URIs will result in joining to the same conference.

4.1.4  Policy URIs

   A policy URI specifies where and how a certain policy pertaining to
   the conference can be accessed.  The actual policy name and usage is
   deduced from the URI schema name.

   An example for the "policy-uri" usage is inclusion of the URI of the
   CPCP [15].  A subscriber to the Conference package can use the Policy
   URI to access and modify the conference policy.

4.2  Constructing Coherent State

   Conference information is associated with a version number.  The
   version number MUST be initialized with the value of the "version"
   attribute from the "conference-info" element in the first document
   received.  Each time a new document is received, the value of the
   local version number, and the "version" attribute in the new
   document, are compared.  If the value in the new document is one
   higher than the local version number, the local version number is
   increased by one, and the document is processed.  If the value in the
   document is more than one higher than the local version number, the
   local version number is set to the value in the new document, the
   document is processed, and the subscriber SHOULD generate a refresh
   request to trigger a full state notification.  If the value in the
   document is less than the local version, the document is discarded
   without processing.

   Further processing of the conference information document depends on
   whether it contains full or partial state.  If it contains full
   state, indicated by the value of the "state" attribute in the
   "conference-info" element, the whole local content is flushed and
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   If the document contains partial state, as indicated by the value of
   the "state" attribute in the "conference-info" element, the document
   is used to update the local content as described below.

   The conference information is described by a means of a root element:
   "conference-info", which can be comprised of elements of four main
   types: "user-type", "sidebar-type", "conf-ids-type", and
   "policy-ids-type".  Updates from partial notifications MUST be
   implemented as a set of atomic operations on elements of these types
   only.

4.2.1  User and Sidebar Updates

   The conference package subscriber maintains two tables: one for the
   list of users and another for the list of sidebars in the conference.
   Each table contains a row for each user or each sidebar
   correspondingly.  Each row is indexed by a URI key, present in the
   "uri" attribute of the "user" element or in the "entity" attribute of
   the "sidebar" element correspondingly.  The contents of each row
   contain the state of that user or a sidebar as conveyed in the
   document.

   If the document is an update (i.e.  contains partial state), for each
   table and for each element (i.e.  "user" or "sidebar") the subscriber
   compares the keys received in the update with the keys in the local
   tables.  If a key doesn't exist in the local table, a row is added,
   and its content is set to the element information from the update.
   If a key of the same value does exist, the row content is replaced
   with the received information.

   If a row is updated or created such that user's state becomes
   "disconnected", that entry MAY be removed from the table at any time.
   If a row is updated or created such that a sidebar element doesn't
   contain any users, that sidebar element MAY be removed from the table
   at any time.

4.2.2  Conference and Policy Identifiers Updates

   In order to support additional conference features, the conference
   package subscriber SHOULD locally maintain two additional
   informational elements: "conf-ids" and "policy-ids".  The content of
   each contains a list of URIs for additional conference identifiers or
   for policy protocols (correspondingly) applicable to this conference.

   If the document is an update (i.e.  contains partial state), and one
   or both of the elements exist in the update, the element(s) is/are
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   If the element is updated or created, such that it is empty, that
   element MAY be removed from the local content at any time.

4.3  Schema



   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
   <xs:schema targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:conference-info" xmlns:tns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:conference-info" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:conference-info" 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/2001/03/xml.xsd" />

   <xs:element name="conference-info">

   <xs:complexType>
   <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="user" type="user-type" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     <xs:element name="sidebar" type="sidebar-type" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     <xs:element name="conf-ids" type="conf-ids-type" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
     <xs:element name="policy-ids" type="policy-ids-type" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
     <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
   </xs:sequence>

     <xs:attribute name="version" type="xs:nonNegativeInteger" use="required" />
     <xs:attribute name="state" use="required">
       <xs:simpleType>
        <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
           <xs:enumeration value="full" />
           <xs:enumeration value="partial" />
        </xs:restriction>
       </xs:simpleType>
     </xs:attribute>

     <xs:attribute name="entity" type="xs:anyURI" use="required" />
     <xs:attribute name="recording" type="tns:recording-type" use="optional" />

     <xs:anyAttribute />

   </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>

   <xs:complexType name="user-type">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="status" type="tns:status-type" minOccurs="0" />
     <xs:element name="joining-mode" type="tns:joining-mode-type" minOccurs="0" />
     <xs:element name="disconnection-reason" type="tns:disconnection-reason-type" minOccurs="0" />



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     <xs:element name="media-stream" type="tns:media-stream-type" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />

     </xs:sequence>


     <xs:attribute name="uri" type="xs:anyURI" use="required" />
     <xs:attribute name="display-name" type="xs:string" use="optional" />
     <xs:attribute ref="xml:lang" use="optional" />
     <xs:attribute name="cascaded-focus" type="xs:anyURI" use="optional" />
     <xs:anyAttribute />

   </xs:complexType>

   <xs:complexType name="sidebar-type">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="user" type="user-type" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>

     <xs:attribute name="entity" type="xs:anyURI" use="required" />
   </xs:complexType>

   <xs:complexType name="conf-ids-type">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="conf-uri" type="xs:anyURI" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>

    <xs:anyAttribute />
   </xs:complexType>

   <xs:complexType name="policy-ids-type">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="policy-uri" type="xs:anyURI" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>

    <xs:anyAttribute />
   </xs:complexType>

   <xs:complexType name="media-stream-type">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="proto" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
     <xs:element name="ssrc" type="xs:nonNegativeInteger" minOccurs="0" />
     <xs:element name="info" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
     <xs:element name="label" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
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   <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>

     <xs:attribute name="media" type="xs:string" use="required" />
   </xs:complexType>

   <xs:simpleType name="status-type">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
     <xs:enumeration value="connected" />
     <xs:enumeration value="disconnected" />
     <xs:enumeration value="on-hold" />
     <xs:enumeration value="muted-by-focus" />
    </xs:restriction>
   </xs:simpleType>

   <xs:simpleType name="joining-mode-type">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
     <xs:enumeration value="dialed-in" />
     <xs:enumeration value="dialed-out" />
     <xs:enumeration value="focus-owner" />
    </xs:restriction>
   </xs:simpleType>

   <xs:simpleType name="disconnection-reason-type">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
     <xs:enumeration value="departed" />
     <xs:enumeration value="booted" />
     <xs:enumeration value="failed" />
    </xs:restriction>
   </xs:simpleType>

   <xs:simpleType name="recording-type">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
     <xs:enumeration value="on" />
     <xs:enumeration value="off" />
    </xs:restriction>
   </xs:simpleType>

   </xs:schema>



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   The following is an example conference information document:






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   <conference-info version="0" state="full" entity="sip:conf233@example.com" recording="on">

     <user uri="sip:bob@example.com" display-name="Bob Jones">
       <status>connected</status>
       <joining-mode>dialed-in</joining-mode>
       <media-stream media-type="audio">
          <proto> RTP/AVP </proto>
          <ssrc> 583398 </ssrc>
       </media-stream>
     </user>

     <user uri="sip:barbara@example.com" display-name="Barbara Jones">
       <status>on-hold</status>
     </user>

     <user uri="sip:bill@example.com" display-name="Bill Minelli">
       <status>on-hold</status>

     </user>

     <sidebar entity="sip:conf233.1@example.com">
       <user uri="sip:barbara@example.com">
       <user uri="sip:bill@example.com">
     </sidebar>

     <conf-ids>
       <conf-uri>tel:+18005671234</conf-uri>
       <conf-uri>h323:conf545@example.com</conf-uri>
     </conf-ids>

   </conference-info>

   This conference currently has three users, two of which are in a
   sidebar conversation.  The conference is being recorded.  There are
   additional means to join the conference either by phone using tel URI
   [14] or by H.323 protocol using H.323 URL [12].















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5.  Security Considerations

   Subscriptions to conference state can reveal very sensitive
   information.  For this reason, the document recommends authentication
   and authorization, and provides guidelines on sensible authorization
   policies.

   Since the data in notifications is sensitive as well, end-to-end SIP
   encryption mechanisms using S/MIME SHOULD be used to protect it.

   Since a focus provides participants identity information using this
   event package, participant privacy needs to be taken into account.  A
   focus MUST support requests by participants for privacy.  Privacy can
   be indicated by the conference policy - for every participant or
   select participants.  It can also be indicated in the session
   signaling.  In SIP this can be done using the Privacy header field
   described in RFC 3323 [8].  For a participant requesting privacy, no
   identity information SHOULD be revealed by the focus such as a URI
   (e.g.  the Address of Record, Contact, or GRUU).  For these cases,
   the anonymous URI generation method outlined in section "User
   Element" of this document MUST be followed.






























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6.  IANA Considerations

   This document registers a SIP event package, a new MIME type,
   application/conference-info+xml, a new XML namespace, and a new XML
   schema.

6.1  conference Event Package Registration

   This specification registers an event package, based on the
   registration procedures defined in RFC 3265 [7].  The following is
   the information required for such a registration:
   Package Name: conference
   Package or Template-Package: This is a package.
   Published Document: RFC XXXX (Note to RFC Editor: Please fill in XXXX
      with the RFC number of this specification).
   Person to Contact: Jonathan Rosenberg, jdrosen@jdrosen.net.

6.2  application/conference-info+xml MIME Registration
   MIME media type name: application
   MIME subtype name: conference-info+xml
   Mandatory parameters: none
   Optional parameters: Same as charset parameter application/xml as
      specified in RFC 3023 [5].
   Encoding considerations: Same as encoding considerations of
      application/xml as specified in RFC 3023 [5].
   Security considerations: See Section 10 of RFC 3023 [5] and Section 5
      of this specification.
   Interoperability considerations: none.
   Published specification: This document.
   Applications which use this media type: This document type has been
      used to support SIP conferencing applications.
   Additional Information:
      Magic Number: None
      File Extension: .cif or .xml
      Macintosh file type code: "TEXT"
   Personal and email address for further information: Jonathan
      Rosenberg, <jdrosen@jdrosen.net>
   Intended usage: COMMON
   Author/Change controller: The IETF.

6.3  URN Sub-Namespace Registration for
    urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:conference-info

   This section registers a new XML namespace, as per the guidelines in
   [1].






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   URI: The URI for this namespace is
      urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:conference-info.
   Registrant Contact: IETF, SIPPING working group, <sipping@ietf.org>,
      Jonathan Rosenberg <jdrosen@jdrosen.net>.
   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">
   <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>
     <meta http-equiv="content-type"
        content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
     <title>Conference Information Namespace</title>
   </head
   <body>
     <h1>Namespace for Conference Information</h1>
     <h2>urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:conference-info</h2>
     <p>See <a href="[[[URL of published RFC]]]">RFCXXXX</a>.</p>
   </body>
   </html>
   END



6.4  XML Schema Registration

   This specification registers a schema, as per the guidelines in in
   [1].
      URI: please assign.
      Registrant Contact: IETF, SIPPING Working Group
      (sipping@ietf.org), Jonathan Rosenberg (jdrosen@jdrosen.net).
      XML: The XML can be found as the sole content of Section 4.3.















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7.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Dan Petrie, Sean Olson, and Alan
   Johnston for their comments and inputs.















































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8.  Changes History

8.1  Changes since -03
   o  "Constructing Coherent State" section has been updated.
   o  In order to support partial notifications, two placeholders
      "conference-ids" and "policy-ids" (for "conf-uri" and "policy-uri"
      elements, correspondingly) are created.
   o  Discussion and security considerations regarding anonymous
      participation have been added.
   o  Optional elements "dialog-uri", "info" and "label" per media
      stream are added.

8.2  Changes since -02
   o  State "muted-by-focus" is added to user's status.
   o  Optional conference attribute "recording" is added.
   o  Policy URI placeholder (i.e.  element "policy-uri") is created.
   o  Example's syntax is corrected.
   o  Optional attribute "cascaded-focus" URI per user is added.
   o  Optional additional conference identifiers (i.e.  element
      "conf-uri") are added.
   o  In order to cover all possible cases, participant's status is
      expressed using three optional statuses: "status", "joining-mode"
      and "disconnection-reason".  That is instead of "activity-status",
      "history-status" and "is-on-dial-out-list".

8.3  Changes since -01
   o  Package parameters are removed.  Decision about performing
      "recursive" membership algorithm is perceived as a focus local
      policy.
   o  General information (i.e.  pointers to additional available
      services) is removed.  The defined XML schema can be extended in
      future to include those when XCON work matures.
   o  Dialog information is removed.  It can be obtained by direct
      subscription to a dialog package of a participant.
   o  Media stream information is aligned with SDP definitions (media
      and proto) and SSRC attribute is added.
   o  Participant's status is expressed using two optional statuses:
      "activity" and "history".  Optional "is-on-a-dial-out-list"
      indication is added.
   o  Normative references to XCON work are removed.
   o  Optional sidebar rosters are added.










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9.  References

9.1  Normative References

   [1]   Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry",
         draft-mealling-iana-xmlns-registry-05 (work in progress), June
         2003.

   [2]   Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
         Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [3]   Moats, R., "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, May 1997.

   [4]   Moats, R., "A URN Namespace for IETF Documents", RFC 2648,
         August 1999.

   [5]   Murata, M., St. Laurent, S. and D. Kohn, "XML Media Types", RFC
         3023, January 2001.

   [6]   Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston, A.,
         Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M. and E. Schooler, "SIP:
         Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, June 2002.

   [7]   Roach, A., "Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-Specific Event
         Notification", RFC 3265, June 2002.

   [8]   Peterson, J., "A Privacy Mechanism for the Session Initiation
         Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3323, November 2002.

   [9]   Camarillo, G., Eriksson, G., Holler, J. and H. Schulzrinne,
         "Grouping of Media Lines in the Session Description Protocol
         (SDP)", RFC 3388, December 2002.

   [10]  Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R. and V. Jacobson,
         "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications", RFC
         3550, July 2003.

9.2  Informative References

   [11]  Handley, M. and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description
         Protocol", RFC 2327, April 1998.

   [12]  Levin, O., "H.323 Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Scheme
         Registration", RFC 3508, April 2003.

   [13]  Rosenberg, J., "A Framework for Conferencing with the Session
         Initiation Protocol",
         draft-ietf-sipping-conferencing-framework-01 (work in



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         progress), October 2003.

   [14]  Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "An INVITE Inititiated Dialog
         Event Package for the Session Initiation  Protocol (SIP)",
         draft-ietf-sipping-dialog-package-04 (work in progress),
         February 2004.

   [15]  Koskelainen, P. and H. Khartabil, "Requirements for Conference
         Policy Control Protocol", draft-ietf-xcon-cpcp-reqs-03 (work in
         progress), April 2004.

   [16]  Rosenberg, J., "Obtaining and Using Globally Routable User
         Agent (UA) URIs (GRUU) in the  Session Initiation Protocol
         (SIP)", draft-ietf-sip-gruu-01 (work in progress), February
         2004.

   [17]  Levin, O. and G. Camarillo, "SDP Media Label",
         draft-levin-mmusic-sdp-media-label-00 (work in progress),
         May 2004.


Authors' Addresses

   Jonathan Rosenberg
   dynamicsoft
   600 Lanidex Plaza
   Parsippany, NJ  07054
   US

   Phone: +1 973 952-5000
   EMail: jdrosen@dynamicsoft.com
   URI:   http://www.jdrosen.net


   Henning Schulzrinne
   Columbia University
   M/S 0401
   1214 Amsterdam Ave.
   New York, NY  10027
   US

   EMail: schulzrinne@cs.columbia.edu
   URI:   http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs








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   Orit Levin (editor)
   Microsoft Corporation
   One Microsoft Way
   Redmond, WA  98052
   USA

   EMail: oritl@microsoft.com












































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