Network Working Group P. Saint-Andre
Internet-Draft Cisco Systems, Inc.
Intended status: Standards Track A. Houri
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J. Hildebrand
Cisco Systems, Inc.
September 5, 2013
Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Presence
draft-ietf-stox-presence-04
Abstract
This document defines a bi-directional protocol mapping for the
exchange of presence information between the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
(XMPP).
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. XMPP to SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2.1. Establishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2.2. Refreshing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2.3. Cancelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3. SIP to XMPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3.1. Establishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3.2. Refreshing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3.3. Cancelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2. XMPP to SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3. SIP to XMPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5. Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1. XMPP to SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.2. SIP to XMPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Appendix A. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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1. Introduction
In order to help ensure interworking between presence systems that
conform to the instant message / presence requirements [RFC2779], it
is important to clearly define protocol mappings between such
systems. Within the IETF, work has proceeded on two presence
technologies:
o Various extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol ([RFC3261])
for instant messaging, as developed within the SIP for Instant
Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE) Working
Group; the relevant specification for presence is [RFC3856]
o The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which
consists of a formalization of the core XML streaming protocols
developed originally by the Jabber open-source community; the
relevant specifications are [RFC6120] for the XML streaming layer
and [RFC6121] for basic presence and instant messaging extensions
One approach to helping ensure interworking between these protocols
is to map each protocol to the abstract semantics described in
[RFC3860]; that is the approach taken by both [RFC3922] and
[I-D.ietf-simple-cpim-mapping]. The approach taken in this document
is to directly map semantics from one protocol to another (i.e., from
SIP/SIMPLE to XMPP and vice-versa).
The architectural assumptions underlying such direct mappings are
provided in [I-D.ietf-stox-core], including mapping of addresses and
error conditions. The mappings specified in this document cover
basic presence functionality. Mapping of more advanced functionality
(e.g., so-called "rich presence") is out of scope for this document.
SIP and XMPP differ significantly in their presence subscription
models, since SIP subscriptions are short-lived (requiring relatively
frequent refreshes even during a presence session) whereas XMPP
subscriptions last across presence sessions until they are explicitly
cancelled. This document provides suggestions for bridging the gap
between these very different models.
The discussion venue for this document is the mailing list of the
STOX WG; visit https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/stox for
subscription information and discussion archives.
2. Terminology
A number of terms used here are explained in [RFC3261], [RFC3856],
[RFC6120], and [RFC6121].
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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
[RFC2119].
3. Subscriptions
3.1. Overview
Both XMPP and presence-aware SIP systems enable entities (often but
not necessarily human users) to subscribe to the presence of other
entities. XMPP presence subscriptions are specified in [RFC6121].
Presence subscriptions using a SIP event package for presence are
specified in [RFC3856].
As described in [RFC6121], XMPP presence subscriptions are managed
using XMPP presence stanzas of type "subscribe", "subscribed",
"unsubscribe", and "unsubscribed". The main subscription states are
"none" (neither the user nor the contact is subscribed to the other's
presence information), "from" (the user has a subscription from the
contact), "to" (the user has a subscription to the contact's presence
information), and "both" (both user and contact are subscribed to
each other's presence information).
As described in [RFC3856], SIP presence subscriptions are managed
through the use of SIP SUBSCRIBE events sent from a SIP user agent to
an intended recipient who is most generally referenced by a Presence
URI of the form <pres:user@domain> but who might be referenced by a
SIP or SIPS URI of the form <sip:user@domain> or <sips:user@domain>.
The subscription models underlying XMPP and SIP are quite different.
For instance, XMPP presence subscriptions are long-lived (indeed
permanent if not explicitly cancelled), whereas SIP presence
subscriptions are short-lived (the default time-to-live of a SIP
presence subscription is 3600 seconds, as specified in Section 6.4 of
[RFC3856]). These differences are addressed below.
3.2. XMPP to SIP
3.2.1. Establishing
An XMPP user (e.g., juliet@example.com) initiates a subscription by
sending a subscription request to another entity (e.g.,
romeo@example.net), and the other entity (conventionally called a
"contact") either accepts or declines the request. If the contact
accepts the request, the user will have a subscription to the
contact's presence information until (1) the user unsubscribes or (2)
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the contact cancels the subscription. The subscription request is
encapsulated in a presence stanza of type "subscribe":
Example 1: XMPP user subscribes to SIP contact:
| <presence from='juliet@example.com'
| to='romeo@example.net'
| type='subscribe'/>
Upon receiving such a stanza, the XMPP server to which the user has
connected needs to determine the identity of the foreign domain,
which it does by following the procedures discussed in
[I-D.ietf-stox-core]. Here we assume that the XMPP server has
determined the foreign domain is serviced by a SIMPLE server, that it
contains or has available to it an XMPP-SIMPLE gateway or connection
manager (which enables it to speak natively to SIMPLE servers), and
that it hands off the presence stanza to the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway.
The XMPP-SIMPLE gateway is then responsible for translating the XMPP
subscription request into a SIP SUBSCRIBE request from the XMPP user
to the SIP user:
Example 2: XMPP user subscribes to SIP contact (SIP transformation):
| SUBSCRIBE sip:romeo@example.net SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP x2s.example.com;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=ffd2
| Call-ID: l04th3s1p@example.com
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 123 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact: <sip:x2s.example.com;transport=tcp>
| Accept: application/pidf+xml
| Expires: 3600
| Content-Length: 0
The SIP user then SHOULD send a response indicating acceptance of the
subscription request:
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Example 3: SIP accepts subscription request:
| SIP/2.0 200 OK
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=ffd2
| To: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=j89d
| Call-ID: l04th3s1p@example.com
| CSeq: 234 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact: <sip:simple.example.net;transport=tcp>
| Expires: 3600
| Content-Length: 0
In accordance with [RFC6665], the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway SHOULD consider
the subscription state to be "neutral" until it receives a NOTIFY
message. Therefore the SIP user or SIP-XMPP gateway at the SIP
user's domain SHOULD immediately send a NOTIFY message containing a
"Subscription-State" header whose value contains the string "active"
(see Section 4).
Example 4: SIP user sends presence notification:
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.1 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP simple.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=yt66
| To: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=bi54
| Call-ID: l04th3s1p@example.com
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: active;expires=499
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 8775 NOTIFY
| Contact: <sip:simple.example.net;transport=tcp>
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 193
|
| <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
| <presence xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf'
| entity='pres:romeo@example.net'>
| <tuple id='ID-orchard'>
| <status>
| <basic>open</basic>
| <show xmlns='jabber:client'>away</show>
| </status>
| </tuple>
| </presence>
In response, the SIMPLE-XMPP gateway would send a 200 OK (not shown
here since it is not translated into an XMPP stanza).
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Upon receiving the first NOTIFY with a subscription state of active,
the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway MUST generate a presence stanza of type
"subscribed":
Example 5: XMPP user receives acknowledgement from SIP contact:
| <presence from='romeo@example.net'
| to='juliet@example.com'
| type='subscribed'/>
As described under Section 4, the gateway MUST also generate a
presence notification to the XMPP user:
Example 6: XMPP user receives presence notification from SIP contact:
| <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard'
| to='juliet@example.com'/>
3.2.2. Refreshing
It is the responsibility of the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway to set the value
of the "Expires" header and to periodically renew the subscription on
the SIMPLE side of the gateway so that the subscription appears to be
permanent to the XMPP user (e.g., the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway SHOULD send
a new SUBSCRIBE request to the SIP user whenever the XMPP user sends
initial presence to its XMPP server, i.e., upon initiating a presence
session with the XMPP server). See the Security Considerations
(Section 7) of this document for important information and
requirements regarding the security implications of this
functionality.
3.2.3. Cancelling
At any time after subscribing, the XMPP user can unsubscribe from the
contact's presence. This is done by sending a presence stanza of
type "unsubscribe":
Example 7: XMPP user unsubscribes from SIP contact:
| <presence from='juliet@example.com'
| to='romeo@example.net'
| type='unsubscribe'/>
The XMPP-SIMPLE gateway is responsible for translating the
unsubscribe command into a SIP SUBSCRIBE request with the "Expires"
header set to a value of zero:
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Example 8: XMPP user unsubscribes from SIP contact (SIP
transformation):
| SUBSCRIBE sip:romeo@example.net SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=j89d
| Call-ID: 1ckm32@example.com
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 789 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact: <sip:x2s.example.com;transport=tcp>
| Accept: application/pidf+xml
| Expires: 0
| Content-Length: 0
Upon sending the transformed unsubscribe, the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway
SHOULD send a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" to the XMPP
user:
Example 9: XMPP user receives unsubscribed notification:
| <presence from='romeo@example.net'
| to='juliet@example.com'
| type='unsubscribed'/>
3.3. SIP to XMPP
3.3.1. Establishing
A SIP user initiates a subscription to a contact's presence
information by sending a SIP SUBSCRIBE request to the contact. The
following is an example of such a request:
Example 10: SIP user subscribes to XMPP contact:
| SUBSCRIBE sip:juliet@example.com SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=xfg9
| Call-ID: 4wcm0n@example.net
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 263 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact: <sip:simple.example.net;transport=tcp>
| Accept: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 0
Notice that the "Expires" header was not included in the SUBSCRIBE
request; this means that the default value of 3600 (i.e., 3600
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seconds = 1 hour) applies.
Upon receiving such a request, a SIMPLE-XMPP gateway is responsible
for translating it into an XMPP subscription request from the SIP
user to the XMPP user:
Example 11: SIP user subscribes to XMPP contact (XMPP
transformation):
| <presence from='romeo@example.net'
| to='juliet@example.com'
| type='subscribe'/>
In accordance with [RFC6121], the XMPP user's server MUST deliver the
presence subscription request to the XMPP user (or, if a subscription
already exists in the XMPP user's roster, discard the subscribe
request).
If the XMPP user approves the subscription request, the XMPP server
then MUST return a presence stanza of type "subscribed" from the XMPP
user to the SIP user; if a subscription already exists, the XMPP
server SHOULD auto-reply with a presence stanza of type "subscribed".
In any case, if the SIMPLE-XMPP gateway receives a presence stanza of
type "subscribed" from the XMPP user, it SHOULD silently discard the
stanza.
If the XMPP user declines the subscription request, the XMPP server
then MUST return a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" from the
XMPP user to the SIP user and the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway MUST transform
that stanza into an empty SIP NOTIFY message with a Subscription-
State of "terminated" and a reason of "rejected":
Example 12: SIP subscription request rejected:
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.2 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=ur93
| To: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=pq72
| Call-ID: 4wcm0n@example.net
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: terminated;reason=rejected
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 232 NOTIFY
| Contact: <sip:x2s.example.com;transport=tcp>
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 0
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3.3.2. Refreshing
For as long as a SIP user is online and interested in receiving
presence notifications from the XMPP users, the user's SIP user agent
is responsible for periodically refreshing the subscription by
sending an updated SUBSCRIBE request with an appropriate value for
the Expires header. In response, the SIMPLE-XMPP gateway MUST send a
SIP NOTIFY to the user agent (per [RFC6665]; if the gateway has
meaningful information about the availability state of the XMPP user
then the NOTIFY MUST communicate that information (e.g., by including
a PIDF body [RFC3863] with the relevant data), whereas if the gateway
does not have meaningful information about the availability state of
the XMPP user then the NOTIFY MUST be empty as allowed by [RFC6665].
Once the SIP user goes offline at the end of a presence session, it
is the responsibility of the SIMPLE-XMPP gateway to properly handle
the difference between short-lived SIP presence subscriptions and
long-lived XMPP presence subscriptions. The gateway has two options
when the SIP user's subscription expires:
o Cancel the subscription (i.e., treat it as temporary) and send an
XMPP presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" to the XMPP contact;
this honors the SIP semantic but will seem rather odd to the XMPP
contact.
o Maintain the subscription (i.e., treat it as long-lived) and (1)
send a SIP NOTIFY request to the SIP user containing a PIDF
document specifying that the XMPP contact now has a basic status
of "closed", including a Subscription-State of "terminated" with a
reason of "timeout" and (2) send an XMPP presence stanza of type
"unavailable" to the XMPP contact; this violates the letter of the
SIP semantic but will seem more natural to the XMPP contact.
Which of these options the SIMPLE-XMPP gateway chooses is up to the
implementation.
If the implementation chooses the first option, the protocol
generated would be as follows:
Example 13: SIP subscription expires (treated as temporary by
gateway):
| <presence from='romeo@example.net'
| to='juliet@example.com'
| type='unsubscribe'/>
If the implementation chooses the second option, the protocol
generated would be as follows:
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Example 14: SIP subscription expires (treated as long-lived by
gateway):
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.2 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=ur93
| To: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=pq72
| Call-ID: j4s0h4vny@example.com
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: terminated;reason=timeout
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 232 NOTIFY
| Contact: <sip:x2s.example.com;transport=tcp>
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 194
|
| <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
| <presence xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf'
| entity='pres:juliet@example.com'>
| <tuple id='ID-balcony'>
| <status>
| <basic>closed</basic>
| </status>
| </tuple>
| </presence>
Example 15: SIP subscription expires (treated as long-lived by
gateway):
| <presence from='romeo@example.net'
| to='juliet@example.com'
| type='unavailable'/>
3.3.3. Cancelling
At any time, the SIP user can cancel the subscription by sending a
SUBSCRIBE message whose "Expires" header is set to a value of zero
("0"):
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Example 16: SIP user cancels subscription:
| SUBSCRIBE sip:juliet@example.com SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP simple.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=yt66
| Call-ID: 1tsn1ce@example.net
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 8775 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact: <sip:simple.example.net;transport=tcp>
| Expires: 0
| Content-Length: 0
As above, upon receiving such a request, a SIMPLE-XMPP gateway is
responsible for doing one of the following:
o Cancel the subscription (i.e., treat it as temporary) and send an
XMPP presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" to the XMPP contact.
o Maintain the subscription (i.e., treat it as long-lived) and (1)
send a SIP NOTIFY request to the SIP user containing a PIDF
document specifying that the XMPP contact now has a basic status
of "closed", (2) send a SIP SUBSCRIBE request to the SIP user with
an "Expires" header set to a value of "0" (zero) when it receives
XMPP presence of type "unavailable" from the XMPP contact, and (3)
send an XMPP presence stanza of type "unavailable" to the XMPP
contact.
4. Notifications
4.1. Overview
Both XMPP and presence-aware SIP systems enable entities (often but
not necessarily human users) to send presence notifications to other
entities. At a minimum, the term "presence" refers to information
about an entity's availability for communication on a network (on/
off), often supplemented by information that further specifies the
entity's communications context (e.g., "do not disturb"). Some
systems and protocols extend this notion even further and refer to
any relatively ephemeral information about an entity as a kind of
presence; categories of such "extended presence" include geographical
location (e.g., GPS coordinates), user mood (e.g., grumpy), user
activity (e.g., walking), and ambient environment (e.g., noisy). In
this document, we focus on the "least common denominator" of network
availability only, although future documents might address broader
notions of presence, including extended presence.
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[RFC6121] defines how XMPP presence stanzas can indicate availability
(via absence of a 'type' attribute) or lack of availability (via a
'type' attribute with a value of "unavailable"). SIP presence using
a SIP event package for presence is specified in [RFC3856].
As described in [RFC6121], presence information about an entity is
communicated by means of an XML <presence/> stanza sent over an XML
stream. In this document we will assume that such a presence stanza
is sent from an XMPP client to an XMPP server over an XML stream
negotiated between the client and the server, and that the client is
controlled by a human user (again, this is a simplifying assumption
introduced for explanatory purposes only). In general, XMPP presence
is sent by the user to the user's server and then broadcasted to all
entities who are subscribed to the user's presence information.
As described in [RFC3856], presence information about an entity is
communicated by means of a SIP NOTIFY event sent from a SIP user
agent to an intended recipient who is most generally referenced by an
Presence URI of the form <pres:user@domain> but who might be
referenced by a SIP or SIPS URI of the form <sip:user@domain> or
<sips:user@domain>. Here again we introduce the simplifying
assumption that the user agent is controlled by a human user.
This document addresses basic presence or network availability only,
not the various extensions to SIP and XMPP for "rich presence", such
as [RFC4480], [XEP-0107], and [XEP-0108].
4.2. XMPP to SIP
When Juliet interacts with her XMPP client to modify her presence
information (or when her client automatically updates her presence
information, e.g. via an "auto-away" feature), her client generates
an XMPP <presence/> stanza. The syntax of the <presence/> stanza,
including required and optional elements and attributes, is defined
in [RFC6121]. The following is an example of such a stanza:
Example 17: XMPP user sends presence notification:
| <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony'/>
Upon receiving such a stanza, the XMPP server to which Juliet has
connected broadcasts it to all subscribers who are authorized to
receive presence notifications from Juliet (this is similar to the
SIP NOTIFY method). For each subscriber, broadcasting the presence
notification involves either delivering it to a local recipient (if
the hostname in the subscriber's address matches one of the hostnames
serviced by the XMPP server) or attempting to route it to the foreign
domain that services the hostname in the subscriber's address.
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Naturally, in this document we assume that the hostname is a SIP
presence service hosted by a separate server. As specified in
[RFC6121], the XMPP server needs to determine the identity of the
foreign domain, which it does by performing one or more DNS SRV
lookups [RFC2782]. For presence stanzas, the order of lookups
recommended by [RFC6121] is to first try the "_xmpp-server" service
as specified in [RFC6120] and to then try the "_pres" service as
specified in [RFC3861]. Here we assume that the first lookup will
fail but that the second lookup will succeed and return a resolution
"_pres._simple.example.net.", since we have already assumed that the
example.net hostname is running a SIP presence service. (Note: The
XMPP server might have previously determined that the foreign domain
is a SIMPLE server, e.g., when it sent a SIP SUBSCRIBE to the SIP
user when Juliet sent initial presence to the XMPP server, in which
case it would not need to perform the SRV lookups; the caching of
such information is a matter of implementation and local service
policy, and is therefore out of scope for this document.)
Once the XMPP server has determined that the foreign domain is
serviced by a SIMPLE server, it needs to determine how to proceed.
We here assume that the XMPP server contains or has available to it
an XMPP-SIMPLE gateway. The XMPP server would then deliver the
presence stanza to the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway.
The XMPP-SIMPLE gateway is then responsible for translating the XMPP
presence stanza into a SIP NOTIFY request and included PIDF document
from the XMPP user to the SIP user.
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Example 18: XMPP user sends presence notification (SIP
transformation):
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.2 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP x2s.example.com;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=gh19
| To: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=yt66
| Contact: <sip:juliet@example.com>;gr=balcony
| Call-ID: j4s0h4vny@example.com
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: active;expires=599
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 157 NOTIFY
| Contact: <sip:x2s.example.com;transport=tcp>
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 192
|
| <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
| <presence xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf'
| entity='pres:juliet@example.com'>
| <tuple id='ID-balcony'>
| <status>
| <basic>open</basic>
| <show xmlns='jabber:client'>away</show>
| </status>
| </tuple>
| </presence>
The mapping of XMPP syntax elements to SIP syntax elements SHOULD be
as shown in the following table. (Mappings for elements not
mentioned are undefined.)
Table 1: Presence syntax mapping from XMPP to SIP
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| XMPP Element or Attribute | SIP Header or PIDF Data |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| <presence/> stanza | "Event: presence" (1) |
| XMPP resource identifer | tuple 'id' attribute (2) |
| from | From |
| id | CSeq (3) |
| to | To |
| type | basic status (4) (5) |
| xml:lang | Content-Language |
| <priority/> | priority for tuple (6) |
| <show/> | no mapping (7) |
| <status/> | <note/> |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
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Note the following regarding these mappings:
1. Only a presence stanza that lacks a 'type' attribute or whose
'type' attribute has a value of "unavailable" SHOULD be mapped by
an XMPP-SIMPLE gateway to a SIP NOTIFY request, since those are
the only presence stanzas that represent notifications.
2. The PIDF schema defines the tuple 'id' attribute as having a
datatype of "xs:ID"; because this datatype is more restrictive
than the "xs:string" datatype for XMPP resourceparts (in
particular, a number is not allowed as the first character of an
ID), it is RECOMMENDED to prepend the resourcepart with "ID-" or
some other alphabetic string when mapping from XMPP to SIP.
3. This mapping is OPTIONAL.
4. Because the lack of a 'type' attribute indicates that an XMPP
entity is available for communications, the gateway SHOULD map
that information to a PIDF <basic/> status of "open". Because a
'type' attribute with a value of "unavailable" indicates that an
XMPP entity is not available communications, the gateway SHOULD
map that information to a PIDF <basic/> status of "closed".
5. When the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway receives XMPP presence of type
"unavailable" from the XMPP contact, it SHOULD (1) send a SIP
NOTIFY request to the SIP user containing a PIDF document
specifying that the XMPP contact now has a basic status of
"closed" and (2) send a SIP SUBSCRIBE request to the SIP user
with an "Expires" header set to a value of "0" (zero).
6. The value of the XMPP <priority/> element is an integer between
-128 and +127, whereas the the value of the PIDF <contact/>
element's 'priority' attribute is a decimal number from zero to
one inclusive, with a maximum of three decimal places. If the
value of the XMPP <priority/> element is negative, an XMPP-SIMPLE
gateway MUST NOT map the value. If an XMPP-SIMPLE gateway maps
positive values, it SHOULD treat XMPP priority 0 as PIDF priority
0 and XMPP priority 127 as PIDF priority 1, mapping intermediate
values appropriately so that they are unique (e.g., XMPP priority
1 to PIDF priority 0.007, XMPP priority 2 to PIDF priority 0.015,
and so on up through mapping XMPP priority 126 to PIDF priority
0.992; note that this is an example only, and that the exact
mapping is up to the implementation).
7. Some implementations support custom extensions to encapsulate
this information; however, there is no need to standardize a PIDF
extension for this purpose, since PIDF is already extensible and
thus the <show/> element can be included directly, qualified by
the 'jabber:client' namespace in the PIDF XML. The examples in
this document illustrate this usage, which is RECOMMENDED. The
most useful values are likely "away" and "dnd", although note
that the latter value merely means "busy" and does not imply that
a server or client ought to block incoming traffic while the user
is in that state.
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8. Some implementations support custom extensions to encapsulate
detailed information about availability; however, there is no
need to standardize a PIDF extension for this purpose, since PIDF
is already extensible and thus the <show/> element (qualified by
the 'jabber:client' namespace) can be included directly in the
PIDF XML. The examples in this document illustrate this usage,
which is RECOMMENDED. The most useful values are likely "away"
and "dnd", although note that the latter value merely means
"busy" and does not imply that a server or client ought to block
incoming traffic while the user is in that state. Naturally, a
gateway can choose to translate a custom extension into an
established value of the <show/> element [RFC6121], or translate
a <show/> element into a custom extension that the gateway knows
is supported by the user agent of the intended recipient.
Unfortunately, this behavior does not guarantee that information
will not be lost; to help prevent information loss, a gateway
ought to include both the <show/> element and the custom
extension if the gateway cannot suitably translate the custom
value into a <show/> value.
4.3. SIP to XMPP
When Romeo changes his presence, his SIP user agent generates a SIP
NOTIFY request for any active subscriptions. The syntax of the
NOTIFY request is defined in [RFC3856]. The following is an example
of such a request:
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Example 19: SIP user sends presence notification:
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.1 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP simple.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=yt66
| To: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=bi54
| Contact: <sip:romeo@example.net>;gr=orchard
| Call-ID: j0sj4sv1m@example.net
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: active;expires=499
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 8775 NOTIFY
| Contact: <sip:simple.example.net;transport=tcp>
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 193
|
| <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
| <presence xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf'
| entity='pres:romeo@example.net'>
| <tuple id='ID-orchard'>
| <status>
| <basic>closed</basic>
| </status>
| </tuple>
| </presence>
Upon receiving such a request, a SIMPLE-XMPP gateway is responsible
for translating it into an XMPP presence stanza from the SIP user to
the XMPP user:
Example 20: SIP user sends presence notification (XMPP
transformation):
| <presence from='romeo@example.net'
| to='juliet@example.com/balcony'
| type='unavailable'/>
The mapping of SIP syntax elements to XMPP syntax elements SHOULD be
as shown in the following table. (Mappings for elements not
mentioned are undefined.)
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Table 2: Presence syntax mapping from SIP to XMPP
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| SIP Header or PIDF Data | XMPP Element or Attribute |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| basic status | type (1) |
| Content-Language | xml:lang |
| CSeq | id (2) |
| From | from |
| priority for tuple | <priority/> (3) |
| To | to |
| <note/> | <status/> |
| <show/> | <show/> (4) |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
Note the following regarding these mappings:
1. A PIDF basic status of "open" SHOULD be mapped to no 'type'
attribute, and a PIDF basic status of "closed" SHOULD be mapped
to a 'type' attribute whose value is "unavailable".
2. This mapping is OPTIONAL.
3. See the notes following Table 1 of this document regarding
mapping of presence priority.
4. If a SIP implementation supports the <show/> element (qualified
by the 'jabber:client' namespace) as a PIDF extension for
availability status as described in the notes following Table 1
of this document, the SIP-to-XMPP gateway is responsible for
including that element in the XMPP presence notification.
5. Requests
Both SIP and XMPP provide methods for requesting presence information
about another entity.
5.1. XMPP to SIP
In XMPP, a request for presence information is completed by sending a
presence stanza of type "probe":
Example 21: XMPP server sends presence probe on behalf of XMPP user:
| <presence from='juliet@example.com/chamber'
| to='romeo@example.net'
| type='probe'/>
Note: As described in [RFC6121], presence probes are used by XMPP
servers to request presence on behalf of XMPP users; XMPP clients are
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discouraged from sending presence probes since retrieving presence is
a service that servers provide.
An XMPP-SIMPLE gateway would transform the presence probe into its
SIP equivalent, which is a SUBSCRIBE request with an Expires header
value of zero:
Example 22: Presence probe (SIP transformation):
| SUBSCRIBE sip:romeo@example.net SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP x2s.example.com;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:juliet@example.com>;tag=ffd2
| Call-ID: l04th3s1p@example.com
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 123 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact: <sip:x2s.example.com;transport=tcp>
| Accept: application/pidf+xml
| Expires: 0
| Content-Length: 0
As described in [RFC3856], this cancels any subscription but causes a
NOTIFY to be sent to the subscriber, just as a presence probe does
(the transformation rules for presence notifications have been
previously described in this document).
5.2. SIP to XMPP
In SIP, a request for presence information is effectively completed
by sending a SUBSCRIBE with an Expires header value of zero:
Example 23: SIP user sends presence request:
| SUBSCRIBE sip:juliet@example.com SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP simple.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: <sip:romeo@example.net>;tag=yt66
| Call-ID: 1tsn1ce@example.net
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 8775 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact: <sip:simple.example.net;transport=tcp>
| Expires: 0
| Content-Length: 0
When honoring the long-lived semantics of an XMPP presence
subscription, a SIMPLE-XMPP gateway SHOULD translate such a SIP
request into a presence stanza of type 'probe' if it does not already
have presence information about the subscribee:
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Example 24: SIP user requests XMPP presence (XMPP transformation):
| <presence from='romeo@example.net'
| to='juliet@example.com'
| type='probe'/>
6. IANA Considerations
This document makes no requests of IANA.
7. Security Considerations
Detailed security considerations for presence protocols are given in
[RFC2779], for SIP-based presence in [RFC3856] (see also [RFC3261]),
and for XMPP-based presence in [RFC6121] (see also [RFC6120]).
The mismatch between long-lived XMPP presence subscriptions and
short-lived SIP presence subscriptions introduces the possibility of
an amplification attack launched from the XMPP network against a SIP
presence server. To help prevent such an attack, access to an XMPP-
SIMPLE gateway that is hosted on the XMPP network SHOULD be
restricted to XMPP users associated with a single domain or trust
realm (e.g., a gateway hosted at simple.example.com ought to allow
only users within the example.com domain to access the gateway, not
users within example.org, example.net, or any other domain); if a SIP
presence server receives communications through an XMPP-SIMPLE
gateway from users who are not associated with a domain that is so
related to the hostname of the gateway, it MAY (based on local
service provisioning) refuse to service such users or refuse to
communicate with the gateway. Furthermore, whenever an XMPP-SIMPLE
gateway seeks to refresh an XMPP user's long-lived subscription to a
SIP user's presence, it MUST first send an XMPP <presence/> stanza of
type "probe" from the address of the gateway to the "bare JID"
(user@domain.tld) of the XMPP user, to which the user's XMPP server
MUST respond in accordance with [RFC6121]; however, the administrator
of an XMPP-SIMPLE gateway MAY (based on local service provisioning)
exempt "known good" XMPP servers from this check (e.g., the XMPP
server associated with the XMPP-SIMPLE gateway as described above).
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-stox-core]
Saint-Andre, P., Houri, A., and J. Hildebrand,
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"Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
(XMPP): Core", draft-ietf-stox-core-03 (work in progress),
August 2013.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2782] Gulbrandsen, A., Vixie, P., and L. Esibov, "A DNS RR for
specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)", RFC 2782,
February 2000.
[RFC3261] 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.
[RFC3856] Rosenberg, J., "A Presence Event Package for the Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3856, August 2004.
[RFC3861] Peterson, J., "Address Resolution for Instant Messaging
and Presence", RFC 3861, August 2004.
[RFC6665] Roach, A., "SIP-Specific Event Notification", RFC 6665,
July 2012.
[RFC6120] Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP): Core", RFC 6120, March 2011.
[RFC6121] Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence",
RFC 6121, March 2011.
8.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-simple-cpim-mapping]
Rosenberg, J. and B. Campbell, "CPIM Mapping of SIMPLE
Presence and Instant Messaging",
draft-ietf-simple-cpim-mapping-01 (work in progress),
June 2002.
[RFC2779] Day, M., Aggarwal, S., and J. Vincent, "Instant Messaging
/ Presence Protocol Requirements", RFC 2779,
February 2000.
[RFC3860] Peterson, J., "Common Profile for Instant Messaging
(CPIM)", RFC 3860, August 2004.
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[RFC3863] Sugano, H., Fujimoto, S., Klyne, G., Bateman, A., Carr,
W., and J. Peterson, "Presence Information Data Format
(PIDF)", RFC 3863, August 2004.
[RFC3922] Saint-Andre, P., "Mapping the Extensible Messaging and
Presence Protocol (XMPP) to Common Presence and Instant
Messaging (CPIM)", RFC 3922, October 2004.
[RFC4480] Schulzrinne, H., Gurbani, V., Kyzivat, P., and J.
Rosenberg, "RPID: Rich Presence Extensions to the Presence
Information Data Format (PIDF)", RFC 4480, July 2006.
[XEP-0107]
Saint-Andre, P. and R. Meijer, "User Mood", XSF XEP 0107,
October 2008.
[XEP-0108]
Meijer, R. and P. Saint-Andre, "User Activity", XSF
XEP 0108, October 2008.
Appendix A. Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank the following individuals for their
feedback: Chris Christou, Fabio Forno, Adrian Georgescu, Philipp
Hancke, Saul Ibarra Corretge, Markus Isomaki, Paul Kyzivat, Salvatore
Loreto, Michael Lundberg, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, and Tory Patnoe.
Some text in this document was borrowed from [RFC3922].
Authors' Addresses
Peter Saint-Andre
Cisco Systems, Inc.
1899 Wynkoop Street, Suite 600
Denver, CO 80202
USA
Phone: +1-303-308-3282
Email: psaintan@cisco.com
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Avshalom Houri
IBM
Rorberg Building, Pekris 3
Rehovot 76123
Israel
Email: avshalom@il.ibm.com
Joe Hildebrand
Cisco Systems, Inc.
1899 Wynkoop Street, Suite 600
Denver, CO 80202
USA
Email: jhildebr@cisco.com
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