An Extension to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Events for Conditional Event Notification
RFC 5839

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                          A. Niemi
Request for Comments: 5839                                         Nokia
Category: Standards Track                                 D. Willis, Ed.
ISSN: 2070-1721                                        Softarmor Systems
                                                                May 2010

        An Extension to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Events
                   for Conditional Event Notification

Abstract

   The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) events framework enables
   receiving asynchronous notification of various events from other SIP
   user agents.  This framework defines the procedures for creating,
   refreshing, and terminating subscriptions, as well as fetching and
   periodic polling of resource state.  These procedures provide no
   tools to avoid replaying event notifications that have already been
   received by a user agent.  This memo defines an extension to SIP
   events that allows the subscriber to condition the subscription
   request to whether the state has changed since the previous
   notification was received.  When such a condition is true, either the
   body of a resulting event notification or the entire notification
   message is suppressed.

Status of This Memo

   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.

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Niemi & Willis               Standards Track                    [Page 1]
RFC 5839               Entity-Tags for SIP Events               May 2010

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Niemi & Willis               Standards Track                    [Page 2]
RFC 5839               Entity-Tags for SIP Events               May 2010

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.1.  Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     1.2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   2.  Motivations and Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     2.1.  Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     2.2.  Problem Description  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     2.3.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   3.  Overview of Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   4.  Resource Model for Entity-Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   5.  Subscriber Behavior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     5.1.  Detecting Support for Conditional Notification . . . . . . 13
     5.2.  Generating SUBSCRIBE Requests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     5.3.  Receiving NOTIFY Requests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     5.4.  Polling or Fetching Resource State . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     5.5.  Resuming a Subscription  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
     5.6.  Refreshing a Subscription  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     5.7.  Terminating a Subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18