Network Working Group                                     P. Saint-Andre
Internet-Draft                                                       JSF
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Transporting Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) over the Extensible
                 Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
                     draft-saintandre-xmpp-pidf-02

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Abstract

   This document defines how to send information encoded in the Presence
   Information Data Format (PIDF) over the Extensible Messaging and
   Presence Protocol (XMPP).








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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   4.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     4.1   Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     4.2   Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
       Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . .  7









































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1.  Introduction

1.1  Overview

   The Presence Information Data Format ([PIDF]) defines a common data
   format for presence protocols that conform to the Common Profile for
   Presence ([CPP]), enabling presence information to be transferred
   across CPP-compliant protocol boundaries without modification, with
   attendant benefits for end-to-end encryption and performance.
   Because the syntax for PIDF is Extensible Markup Language [XML], it
   should be straightforward to send PIDF data over the Extensible
   Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) [XMPP-CORE], since XMPP is
   simply an XML streaming protocol.  This memo defines a mechanism for
   encapsulating PIDF data within an "extended namespace" contained in
   an XMPP presence stanza.

1.2  Terminology

   This document inherits terminology defined in [PIDF], [XMPP-CORE],
   and [XMPP-IM].

   The capitalized key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL",
   "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC
   2119 [TERMS].

2.  Protocol

   The PIDF format is defined in [PIDF].  Briefly, the XML namespace
   name is 'urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf', the root element is
   <presence/>, the <presence/> element must possess an 'entity'
   attribute that specifies the pres: URI (see [CPP]) that identifies
   the presentity (see [RFC2778]) to which the PIDF data relates, and
   the <presence/> element may contain any number of <tuple/> child
   elements specifying information about the entity.

   The recommended method for encapsulating PIDF data within an XMPP
   presence stanza is by including the PIDF <presence/> element as a
   child of the XMPP <presence/> stanza.  Although it may appear that
   this is potentially confusing, the inclusion of the
   'urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf' namespace ensures that PIDF data is
   kept separate from XMPP presence data (in accordance with [XML-
   NAMES]).  The following is a simple example of encapsulating PIDF
   data within an "extended namespace" in XMPP:







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   A basic example of PIDF over XMPP:

   <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' xml:lang='en'>
     <show>dnd</show>
     <status>Wooing Juliet</status>
     <presence xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf'
               entity='pres:romeo@example.net'>
       <tuple id='orchard'>
         <status>
           <basic>open</basic>
         </status>
       </tuple>
     </presence>
   </presence>

   Because base PIDF data does not encapsulate any additional
   information over and above XMPP presence stanzas, there is little
   point to including it in native XMPP systems when it is not encrypted
   (obviously, encrypting PIDF data can help to ensure end-to-end
   encryption of presence information, as described in [XMPP-E2E]).  The
   power of PIDF in the context of XMPP derives from PIDF extensions,
   such as those for rich presence (see [RPID]) and geographical
   location (see [GEOLOC]).  Any such extension to PIDF can be included
   in an XMPP presence stanza, since, according to the definition of
   "extended namespaces" in [XMPP-IM], the format of such extended data
   is defined by the extension rather than by the base XMPP
   specification itself.  Thus the ability to include PIDF data and PIDF
   data extensions in XMPP enables XMPP-aware applications to include
   any PIDF-compatible data that is currently defined or that may be
   defined in the future.  Naturally, there is no guarantee that all
   XMPP entities will be able to understand such PIDF data, and entities
   that do not understand the data MUST ignore it (in accordance with
   [XMPP-CORE]).  However, this memo at least defines a mechanism for
   including PIDF data, which XMPP applications are encouraged to
   implement if they desire to make use of PIDF data extensions for rich
   presence, geographical location, and other kinds of presence-related
   information.

3.  Security Considerations

   This memo introduces no new security considerations above and beyond
   those provided for PIDF in [PIDF] and for XMPP in [XMPP-CORE].

4.  References







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4.1  Normative References

   [CPP]      Peterson, J., "Common Profile for Presence (CPP)",
              RFC 3859, August 2004.

   [PIDF]     Sugano, H., Fujimoto, S., Klyne, G., Bateman, A., Carr,
              W., and J. Peterson, "Presence Information Data Format
              (PIDF)", RFC 3863, August 2004.

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

   [XML]      Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C., and E. Maler,
              "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (2nd ed)", W3C REC-
              xml, October 2000, <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml>.

   [XML-NAMES]
              Bray, T., Hollander, D., and A. Layman, "Namespaces in
              XML", W3C REC-xml-names, January 1999,
              <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names>.

   [XMPP-CORE]
              Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence
              Protocol (XMPP): Core", RFC 3920, October 2004.

   [XMPP-E2E]
              Saint-Andre, P., "End-to-End Signing and Object Encryption
              for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
              (XMPP)", RFC 3923, October 2004.

   [XMPP-IM]  Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence
              Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence",
              RFC 3921, October 2004.

4.2  Informative References

   [GEOLOC]   Peterson, J., "A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object
              Format", draft-ietf-geopriv-pidf-lo-03 (work in progress),
              September 2004.

   [RFC2778]  Day, M., Rosenberg, J., and H. Sugano, "A Model for
              Presence and Instant Messaging", RFC 2778, February 2000.

   [RPID]     Schulzrinne, H., "RPID: Rich Presence Extensions to the
              Presence Information Data Format",
              draft-ietf-simple-rpid-08 (work in progress), July 2005.





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Author's Address

   Peter Saint-Andre
   Jabber Software Foundation
   P.O. Box 1641
   Denver, CO  80201
   US

   Email: stpeter@jabber.org










































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