Network Working Group P. Saint-Andre Internet-Draft Cisco Obsoletes: 3921 (if approved) August 9, 2010 Intended status: Standards Track Expires: February 10, 2011 Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence draft-ietf-xmpp-3921bis-10 Abstract This document defines extensions to core features of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that provide basic instant messaging (IM) and presence functionality in conformance with RFC 2779. This document obsoletes RFC 3921. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 1] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2. History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4. Functional Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.5. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.7. Discussion Venue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2. Managing the Roster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.1. Syntax and Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.1.1. Ver Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.1.2. Roster Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.1.2.1. Ask Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.1.2.2. JID Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.1.2.3. Name Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.1.2.4. Subscription Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.1.2.5. Group Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.1.3. Roster Get . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.1.4. Roster Result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.1.5. Roster Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.1.6. Roster Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.2. Retrieving the Roster on Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.3. Adding a Roster Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.3.1. Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.3.2. Success Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.3.3. Error Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.4. Updating a Roster Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.4.1. Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.4.2. Success Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.4.3. Error Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.5. Deleting a Roster Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.5.1. Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.5.2. Success Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.5.3. Error Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2.6. Roster Versioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2.6.1. Stream Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2.6.2. Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2.6.3. Success Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3. Managing Presence Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3.1. Requesting a Subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.1.1. Client Generation of Outbound Subscription Request . 32 3.1.2. Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Request . 32 3.1.3. Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Request . . 34 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 2] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 3.1.4. Client Processing of Inbound Subscription Request . . 36 3.1.5. Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Approval . 37 3.1.6. Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Approval . 38 3.2. Cancelling a Subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.2.1. Client Generation of Subscription Cancellation . . . 40 3.2.2. Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.2.3. Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.3. Unsubscribing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.3.1. Client Generation of Unsubscribe . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.3.2. Server Processing of Outbound Unsubscribe . . . . . . 43 3.3.3. Server Processing of Inbound Unsubscribe . . . . . . 44 4. Exchanging Presence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 4.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 4.2. Initial Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 4.2.1. Client Generation of Initial Presence . . . . . . . . 47 4.2.2. Server Processing of Outbound Initial Presence . . . 47 4.2.3. Server Processing of Inbound Initial Presence . . . . 48 4.2.4. Client Processing of Initial Presence . . . . . . . . 49 4.3. Presence Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 4.3.1. Server Generation of Outbound Presence Probe . . . . 50 4.3.2. Server Processing of Inbound Presence Probe . . . . . 50 4.4. Subsequent Presence Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4.4.1. Client Generation of Subsequent Presence Broadcast . 53 4.4.2. Server Processing of Outbound Presence . . . . . . . 54 4.4.3. Server Processing of Inbound Presence . . . . . . . . 55 4.4.4. Client Processing of Subsequent Presence . . . . . . 55 4.5. Unavailable Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 4.5.1. Client Generation of Unavailable Presence . . . . . . 55 4.5.2. Server Processing of Outbound Unavailable Presence . 56 4.5.3. Server Processing of Inbound Unavailable Presence . . 57 4.5.4. Client Processing of Unavailable Presence . . . . . . 58 4.6. Directed Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 4.6.1. Client Generation of Directed Presence . . . . . . . 58 4.6.2. Server Processing of Outbound Directed Presence . . . 59 4.6.3. Server Processing of Inbound Directed Presence . . . 59 4.6.4. Client Processing of Inbound Directed Presence . . . 59 4.7. Presence Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4.7.1. Type Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4.7.2. Child Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4.7.2.1. Show Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4.7.2.2. Status Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 4.7.2.3. Priority Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.7.3. Extended Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 5. Exchanging Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 5.1. One-to-One Chat Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 5.2. Message Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 3] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 5.2.1. To Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 5.2.2. Type Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 5.2.3. Body Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 5.2.4. Subject Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 5.2.5. Thread Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 5.3. Extended Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 6. Exchanging IQ Stanzas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 7. A Sample Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 8. Server Rules for Processing XML Stanzas . . . . . . . . . . . 79 8.1. No 'to' Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 8.2. Remote Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 8.3. Local Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 8.4. Localpart at Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 8.4.1. No Such User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 8.4.2. Bare JID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 8.4.2.1. Available or Connected Resources . . . . . . . . 81 8.4.2.2. No Available or Connected Resources . . . . . . . 83 8.4.3. Full JID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8.4.3.1. Resource Matches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8.4.3.2. No Resource Matches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 8.4.4. Summary of Message Delivery Rules . . . . . . . . . . 86 9. Handling of URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 10. Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 12. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 13. Conformance Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 14. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 14.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 14.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Appendix A. Subscription States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 A.1. Defined States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 A.2. Server Processing of Outbound Presence Subscription Stanzas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 A.2.1. Subscribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 A.2.2. Unsubscribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 A.2.3. Subscribed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 A.2.4. Unsubscribed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 A.3. Server Processing of Inbound Presence Subscription Stanzas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 A.3.1. Subscribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 A.3.2. Unsubscribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 A.3.3. Subscribed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 A.3.4. Unsubscribed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Appendix B. Blocking Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Appendix C. vCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Appendix D. XML Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 D.1. jabber:client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 D.2. jabber:server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 4] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 D.3. jabber:iq:roster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Appendix E. Differences From RFC 3921 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Appendix F. Copying Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 5] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 1. Introduction 1.1. Overview The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an application profile of the Extensible Markup Language [XML] that enables the near-real-time exchange of structured yet extensible data between any two or more network entities. The core features of XMPP defined in [XMPP-CORE] provide the building blocks for many types of near-real-time applications, which can be layered on top of the core by sending application-specific data qualified by particular XML namespaces (refer to [XML-NAMES]). This document defines XMPP extensions that provide the basic functionality expected of an instant messaging (IM) and presence application as described in [IMP-REQS]. 1.2. History The basic syntax and semantics of XMPP were developed originally within the Jabber open-source community, mainly in 1999. In late 2002, the XMPP Working Group was chartered with developing an adaptation of the core Jabber protocol that would be suitable as an IETF instant messaging (IM) and presence technology in accordance with [IMP-REQS]. In October 2004, [RFC3920] and [RFC3921] were published, representing the most complete definition of XMPP at that time. Since 2004 the Internet community has gained extensive implementation and deployment experience with XMPP, including formal interoperability testing carried out under the auspices of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF). This document incorporates comprehensive feedback from software developers and service providers, including a number of backward-compatible modifications summarized under Appendix E. As a result, this document reflects the rough consensus of the Internet community regarding the instant messaging and presence features of XMPP 1.0, thus obsoleting RFC 3921. 1.3. Requirements Traditionally, instant messaging applications have combined the following factors: 1. The central point of focus is a list of one's contacts or "buddies" (in XMPP this list is called a ROSTER). 2. The purpose of using such an application is to exchange relatively brief text messages with particular contacts in close to real time -- often relatively large numbers of such messages Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 6] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 in rapid succession, in the form of a one-to-one CHAT SESSION as described under Section 5.1. 3. The catalyst for exchanging messages is PRESENCE -- i.e., information about the network availability of particular contacts (thus knowing who is online and available for a one-to-one chat session). 4. Presence information is provided only to contacts that one has authorized by means of an explicit agreement called a PRESENCE SUBSCRIPTION. Thus at a high level this document assumes that a user needs to be able to complete the following use cases: o Manage items in one's contact list o Exchange messages with one's contacts o Exchange presence information with one's contacts o Manage presence subscriptions to and from one's contacts Detailed definitions of these functionality areas are contained in RFC 2779 [IMP-REQS], and the interested reader is referred to that document regarding detailed requirements. While the XMPP instant messaging and presence extensions specified herein meet the requirements of RFC 2779, they were not designed explicitly with that specification in mind, since the base protocol evolved through an open development process within the Jabber open-source community before RFC 2779 was written. Although XMPP protocol extensions addressing many other functionality areas have been defined in the XMPP Standards Foundation's XEP series (e.g., multi-user text chat as specified in [XEP-0045]), such extensions are not specified in this document because they are not mandated by RFC 2779. Implementation Note: RFC 2779 stipulates that presence services must be separable from instant messaging services and vice-versa; i.e., it must be possible to use the protocol to provide a presence service, an instant messaging service, or both. Although the text of this document assumes that implementations and deployments will want to offer a unified instant messaging and presence service, it is not mandatory for an XMPP service to offer both a presence service and an instant messaging service, and the protocol makes it possible to offer separate and distinct services for presence and for instant messaging. (For example, a presence- only service could return a stanza error if a client attempts to send a stanza.) Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 7] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 1.4. Functional Summary This non-normative section provides a developer-friendly, functional summary of XMPP-based instant messaging and presence features; consult the sections that follow for a normative definition of these features. [XMPP-CORE] specifies how an XMPP client connects to an XMPP server. In particular, it specifies the preconditions that need to be fulfilled before a client is allowed to send XML stanzas (the basic unit of meaning in XMPP) to other entities on an XMPP network. These preconditions comprise negotiation of the XML stream and include exchange of XML stream headers, optional channel encryption via Transport Layer Security [TLS], mandatory authentication via Simple Authentication and Security Layer [SASL], and binding of a resource to the stream for client addressing. The reader is referred to [XMPP-CORE] for details regarding these preconditions, and knowledge of [XMPP-CORE] is assumed herein. Interoperability Note: [RFC3921] specified one additional precondition: formal establishment of an instant messaging and presence session. Implementation and deployment experience has shown that this additional step is unnecessary. However, for backward compatibility an implementation SHOULD still offer that feature. This enables older software to connect while letting newer software skip a round trip. Upon fulfillment of the preconditions specified in [XMPP-CORE], an XMPP client has a long-lived XML stream with an XMPP server, which enables the user controlling that client to send and receive a potentially unlimited number of XML stanzas over the stream. Such a stream can be used to exchange messages, share presence information, and engage in structured request-response interactions in close to real time. After negotiation of the XML stream, the typical flow for an instant messaging and presence session is as follows: 1. Retrieve one's roster. (See Section 2.2.) 2. Send initial presence to the server for broadcasting to all subscribed contacts, thus "going online" from the perspective of XMPP communication. (See Section 4.2.) 3. Exchange messages, manage presence subscriptions, perform roster updates, and in general process and generate other XML stanzas with particular semantics throughout the life of the session. (See Section 5, Section 3, Section 2, and Section 6.) Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 8] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 4. Terminate the session when desired by sending unavailable presence and closing the underlying XML stream. (See Section 4.5.) 1.5. Conventions This document inherits the terminology defined in [XMPP-CORE]. The following capitalized keywords are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS]: "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED"; "MUST NOT", "SHALL NOT"; "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED"; "SHOULD NOT", "NOT RECOMMENDED"; "MAY", "OPTIONAL". For convenience, this document employs the term "user" to refer to the owner of an XMPP account; however, account owners need not be natural persons and can be bots, devices, or other automated applications. Following the "XML Notation" used in [IRI] to represent characters that cannot be rendered in ASCII-only documents, some examples in this document use the form "&#x...." as a notational device to represent Unicode characters (e.g., the string "ř" stands for the Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON); this form is definitely not to be sent over the wire in XMPP systems. In examples, lines have been wrapped for improved readability, "[...]" means elision, and the following prepended strings are used (these prepended strings are not to be sent over the wire): o C: = client o CC: = contact's client o CS: = contact's server o S: = server o UC: = user's client o US: = user's server 1.6. Acknowledgements The editor of this document finds it impossible to appropriately acknowledge the many individuals who have provided comments regarding the protocols defined in this specification. However, thanks are due to those who have provided implementation feedback, bug reports, requests for clarification, and suggestions for improvement since the publication of the RFC this document supersedes. The editor has endeavored to address all such feedback, but is solely responsible for any remaining errors and ambiguities. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 9] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Some of the text about roster versioning was borrowed from [XEP-0237] and some of the text about message threads was borrowed from [XEP-0201]. 1.7. Discussion Venue The document editor and the broader XMPP developer community welcome discussion and comments related to the topics presented in this document. The primary and preferred venue is the mailing list, for which archives and subscription information are available at . Related discussions often occur on the mailing list, for which archives and subscription information are available at . 2. Managing the Roster In XMPP, a user's roster contains any number of specific contacts. A user's roster is stored by the user's server on the user's behalf so that the user can access roster information from any device. When the user adds items to the roster or modifies existing items, if an error does not occur then the server SHOULD store that data unmodified if at all possible and MUST return the data it has stored when an authorized client requests the roster. Security Note: Because the user's roster can contain confidential data, the server MUST restrict access to this data so that only authorized entities (typically limited to the account owner) are able to retrieve, modify, or delete it. RFC 3921 assumed that the only place where a user stores their roster is the server where the user's account is registered and at which the user authenticates for access to the XMPP network. This specification removes that strict coupling of roster storage to account registration and network authentication, such that a user could store their roster at another location, or could have multiple rosters that are stored in multiple locations. However, in the absence of implementation and deployment experience with a more flexible roster storage model, this specification retains the terminology of RFC 3921 by using the terms "client" and server" (and "the roster" instead of "a roster"), rather than coining a new term for "a place where a user stores a roster". Future documents might provide normative rules for non-server roster storage or for the management of multiple rosters, but such rules are out of scope for this document. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 10] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 2.1. Syntax and Semantics Rosters are managed using IQ stanzas, specifically by means of a child element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace. The detailed syntax and semantics are defined in the following sections. 2.1.1. Ver Attribute The 'ver' attribute is a string that identifies a particular version of the roster information. The value MUST be generated only by the server and MUST be treated by the client as opaque. The server can use any appropriate method for generating the version ID, such as a hash of the roster data or a strictly-increasing sequence number. Inclusion of the 'ver' attribute is RECOMMENDED. Use of the 'ver' attribute is described more fully under Section 2.6. 2.1.2. Roster Items The element inside a roster set (Section 2.1.5) contains one child, and a roster result (Section 2.1.4) typically contains multiple children. Each element describes a unique ROSTER ITEM or "contact". The syntax of the element is described in the following sections. 2.1.2.1. Ask Attribute The 'ask' attribute is used to specify subscription sub-states that include a "Pending Out" aspect as described under Section 3.1.2. A server SHOULD include the 'ask' attribute for those subscription sub- states when returning the roster to an authorized client. A client MUST NOT include the 'ask' attribute in the roster sets is sends to the server. 2.1.2.2. JID Attribute The 'jid' attribute specifies the Jabber Identifier (JID) that uniquely identifies the roster item. The 'jid' attribute is REQUIRED whenever a client or server adds, updates, deletes, or returns a roster item. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 11] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 2.1.2.3. Name Attribute The 'name' attribute specifies the "handle" to be associated with the JID, as determined by the user (not the contact). Although the value of the 'name' attribute MAY have meaning to a human user, it is opaque to the server. However, the 'name' attribute MAY be used by the server for matching purposes within the context of various XMPP extensions (one possible comparison method is that described for XMPP resourceparts in [XMPP-ADDR]). It is OPTIONAL for a client to include the 'name' attribute when adding or updating a roster item. 2.1.2.4. Subscription Attribute The state of the presence subscription is captured in the 'subscription' attribute of the element. The defined subscription-related values are: none: the user does not have a subscription to the contact's presence, and the contact does not have a subscription to the user's presence; this is the default value, so if the subscription attribute is not included then the state is to be understood as "none" to: the user has a subscription to the contact's presence, but the contact does not have a subscription to the user's presence from: the contact has a subscription to the user's presence, but the user does not have a subscription to the contact's presence both: the user and the contact have subscriptions to each other's presence (also called a "mutual subscription") In a roster result (Section 2.1.4), the client MUST ignore values of the 'subscription' attribute other than "none", "to", "from", or "both". In a roster push (Section 2.1.6), the client MUST ignore values of the 'subscription' attribute other than "none", "to", "from", "both", or "remove". In a roster set (Section 2.1.5), the 'subscription' attribute MAY be included with a value of "remove", which indicates that the item is to be removed from the roster; in a roster set the server MUST ignore all values of the 'subscription' attribute other than "remove". Inclusion of the 'subscription' attribute is OPTIONAL. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 12] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 2.1.2.5. Group Element The child element specifies a category or "bucket" into which the roster item is to be grouped by a client. An element MAY contain more than one element, which means that roster groups are not exclusive. Although the XML character data of the element MAY have meaning to a human user, it is opaque to the server. However, the element MAY be used by the server for matching purposes within the context of various XMPP extensions (one possible comparison method is that described for XMPP resourceparts in [XMPP-ADDR]). It is OPTIONAL for a client to include the element when adding or updating a roster item. If a roster set (Section 2.1.5) includes no element, then the item is to be interpreted as being affiliated with no group. 2.1.3. Roster Get A ROSTER GET is a client's request for the server to return the roster; syntactically it is an IQ stanza of type "get" sent from client to server and containing a element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace, where the element MUST NOT contain any child elements. C: The expected outcome of sending a roster get is for the server to return a roster result. 2.1.4. Roster Result A ROSTER RESULT is the server's response to a roster get; syntactically it is an IQ stanza of type "result" sent from server to client and containing a element qualified by the 'jabber:iq: roster' namespace. The element in a roster result contains one element for each contact and therefore can contain more than one element. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 13] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 S: If the roster exists but there are no contacts in the roster, then the server MUST return an IQ-result containing a child element that in turn contains no children (i.e. , the server MUST NOT return an empty stanza of type "error"). S: If the roster does not exist, then the server MUST return a stanza error with a condition of . S: 2.1.5. Roster Set A ROSTER SET is a client's request for the server to modify (i.e., create, update, or delete) a roster item; syntactically it is an IQ stanza of type "set" sent from client to server and containing a element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace. The following rules apply to roster sets: 1. The element MUST contain one and only one element. 2. The server MUST ignore any value of the 'subscription' attribute other than "remove" (see Section 2.1.2.4). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 14] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Implementation Note: Traditionally, the IQ stanza of the roster set included no 'to' address, with the result that all roster sets were sent from an authenticated resource (full JID) of the account whose roster was being updated. Furthermore, RFC 3921 required a server to perform special-case checking of roster set stanzas to ignore the 'to' address; however, this specification has removed that special-casing, which means that a roster set stanza might include a 'to' address other than that of the sender. Therefore, the server MUST verify that the sender of the roster set stanza is authorized to update the roster, and if not return a error. C: 2.1.6. Roster Push A ROSTER PUSH is a newly created, updated, or deleted roster item that is sent from the server to the client; syntactically it is an IQ stanza of type "set" sent from server to client and containing a element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace. The following rules apply to roster pushes: 1. The element in a roster push MUST contain one and only one element. 2. A receiving client MUST ignore the stanza unless it has no 'from' attribute (i.e., implicitly from the bare JID of the user's account) or it has a 'from' attribute whose value matches the user's bare JID . S: As mandated by the semantics of the IQ stanza as defined in [XMPP-CORE], each resource that receives a roster push MUST reply Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 15] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 with an IQ stanza of type "result" (or "error"). C: C: Implementation Note: There is no error case for client processing of roster pushes; if the server receives an IQ of type "error" in response to a roster push it SHOULD ignore the error. 2.2. Retrieving the Roster on Login Upon authenticating with a server and binding a resource (thus becoming a connected resource as defined in [XMPP-CORE]), a client SHOULD request the roster before sending initial presence (however, because receiving the roster is not necessarily desirable for all resources, e.g., a connection with limited bandwidth, the client's request for the roster is not mandatory). After a connected resource sends initial presence (see Section 4.2), it is referred to as an AVAILABLE RESOURCE. If a connected resource or available resource requests the roster, it is referred to as an INTERESTED RESOURCE. The server MUST send roster pushes to all interested resources. Implementation Note: Presence subscription requests are sent to available resources, whereas the roster pushes associated with subscription state changes are sent to interested resources. Therefore if a resource wishes to receive both subscription requests and roster pushes, it MUST both send initial presence and request the roster. A client requests the roster by sending a roster get over its stream with the server. C: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 16] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 S: Friends If the server cannot process the roster get, it MUST return an appropriate stanza error as described in [XMPP-CORE] (such as if the roster namespace is not supported or if the server experiences trouble processing or returning the roster). 2.3. Adding a Roster Item 2.3.1. Request At any time, a client can add an item to the roster. This is done by sending a roster set containing a new item. C: Servants 2.3.2. Success Case If the server can successfully process the roster set for the new item (i.e., if no error occurs), it MUST create the roster item in persistent storage. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 17] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 The server MUST then return an IQ stanza of type "result" to the connected resource that sent the roster set. S: The server MUST also send a roster push containing the new roster item to all of the user's interested resources, including the resource that generated the roster set. S: Servants S: Servants As mandated by the semantics of the IQ stanza as defined in [XMPP-CORE], each resource that receives a roster push MUST reply with an IQ stanza of type "result" (or "error"). C: C: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 18] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 2.3.3. Error Cases If the server cannot successfully process the roster set, it MUST return a stanza error. The following error cases are defined (naturally, other stanza errors can occur, such as ). The server MUST return a stanza error to the client if the sender of the roster set is not authorized to update the roster (where typically only an authenticated resource of the account itself is authorized). The server MUST return a stanza error to the client if the roster set contains any of the following violations: 1. The element contains more than one child element. 2. The element contains more than one element, but there are duplicate groups (one possible comparison method for determining duplicates is that described for XMPP resourceparts in [XMPP-ADDR]). The server MUST return a stanza error to the client if the roster set contains any of the following violations: 1. The length of the 'name' attribute is greater than a server- configured limit. 2. The XML character data of the element is of zero length (to remove an item from all groups, the client instead needs to exclude any element from the roster set). 3. The XML character data of the element is larger than a server-configured limit. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 19] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Error: Roster set initiated by unauthorized entity C: S: Error: Roster set contains more than one item C: Servants Family S: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 20] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Error: Roster set contains item with oversized handle C: Servants S: Error: Roster set contains duplicate groups C: Servants Servants S: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 21] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Error: Roster set contains empty group C: S: Error: Roster set contains oversized group name C: [ ... some-very-long-group-name ... ] S: Interoperability Note: Some servers return a stanza error to the client if the value of the element's 'jid' attribute matches the bare JID of the user's account. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 22] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 2.4. Updating a Roster Item 2.4.1. Request Updating an existing roster item is done in the same way as adding a new roster item, i.e., by sending a roster set to the server. Because a roster item is atomic, the item MUST be updated exactly as provided in the roster set. There are several reasons why a client might update a roster item: 1. Adding a group 2. Deleting a group 3. Changing the handle 4. Deleting the handle Consider a roster item that is defined as follows: Friends The user who has this item in her roster might want to add the item to another group. C: Friends Lovers Sometime later, the user might want to remove the item from the original group. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 23] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 C: Lovers The user might want to remove the item from all groups. C: The user might also want to change the handle for the item. C: The user might then want to remove the handle altogether. Implementation Note: Including an empty 'name' attribute is equivalent to including no 'name' attribute; both actions set the name to the empty string. C: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 24] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 2.4.2. Success Case As with adding a roster item, if the roster item can be successfully processed then the server MUST update the roster information in persistent storage, send a roster push to all of the user's interested resources, and send an IQ result to the initiating resource; for details, see Section 2.3. 2.4.3. Error Cases The error cases described under Section 2.3.3 also apply to updating a roster item. 2.5. Deleting a Roster Item 2.5.1. Request At any time, a client can delete an item from his or her roster by sending a roster set and specifying a value of "remove" for the 'subscription' attribute. C: 2.5.2. Success Case As with adding a roster item, if the server can successfully process the roster set then it MUST update the roster information in persistent storage, send a roster push to all of the user's interested resources (with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "remove"), and send an IQ result to the initiating resource; for details, see Section 2.3. In addition, the user's server might need to generate one or more subscription-related presence stanzas, as follows: 1. If the user has a presence subscription to the contact, then the user's server MUST send a presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" to the contact (to unsubscribe from the contact's presence). 2. If the contact has a presence subscription to the user, then the user's server MUST send a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" to the contact (to cancel the contact's subscription to the Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 25] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 user), or both. 3. If the presence subscription is mutual, then the user's server MUST send both a presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" and a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" to the contact. S: S: 2.5.3. Error Cases If the value of the 'jid' attribute specifies an item that is not in the roster, then the server MUST return an stanza error. Error: Roster item not found C: S: 2.6. Roster Versioning 2.6.1. Stream Feature If a server supports roster versioning, then it MUST advertise the following stream feature during stream negotiation. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 26] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 The roster versioning stream feature SHOULD always be voluntary (advertised by means of the child element), not mandatory (advertised by means of the child element). 2.6.2. Request If a client supports roster versioning and the server to which it has connected advertises support for roster versioning as described in the foregoing section, then the client SHOULD include the 'ver' element in its request for the roster. If the server does not advertise support for roster versioning, the client MUST NOT include the 'ver' attribute. If the client includes the 'ver' attribute in its roster get, it sets the attribute's value to the version ID associated with its last cache of the roster. C: If the client has not yet cached the roster or the cache is lost or corrupted, but the client wishes to bootstrap the use of roster versioning, it MUST set the 'ver' attribute to the empty string (i.e., ver=""). Naturally, if the client does not support roster versioning or does not wish to bootstrap the use of roster versioning, it will not include the 'ver' attribute. 2.6.3. Success Case Whether or not the roster has been modified since the version ID enumerated by the client, the server MUST either return the complete roster as described under Section 2.1.4 (including a 'ver' attribute that signals the latest version) or return an empty IQ-result (thus indicating that any roster modifications will be sent via roster pushes, as described below). In general, unless returning the complete roster would (1) use less bandwidth than sending individual roster pushes to the client (e.g., if the roster contains only a few items) or (2) the server cannot associate the version ID with any previous version it has on file, the server SHOULD send an empty IQ- result and then send the modifications (if any) via roster pushes. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 27] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 S: Implementation Note: This empty IQ-result is different from an empty element, thus disambiguating this usage from an empty roster. If roster versioning is enabled and the roster has not been modified since the version ID enumerated by the client, the server will simply not send any roster pushes to the client (until and unless some relevant event triggers a roster push during the lifetime of the client's session). If the roster has been modified since the version ID enumerated by the client, the server MUST then send one roster push to the client for each roster item that has been modified since the version ID enumerated by the client. (We call a roster push that is sent for purposes of roster version synchronization an "interim roster push".) Definition: A ROSTER MODIFICATION is any modification to the roster data that would result in a roster push to a connected client. Therefore internal states related to roster processing within the server that would not result in a roster push to a connected client do not necessitate a change to the version. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 28] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 S: S: S: Servants S: VIPs These "interim roster pushes" can be understood as follows: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 29] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 1. Imagine that the client had an active presence session for the entire time between its cached roster version (say, "ver14") and the new roster version (say, "ver96"). 2. During that time, the client might have received roster pushes related to various roster versions (which might have been, say, "ver27" and "ver49"). However, some of those roster pushes might have contained intermediate updates to the same roster item (e.g., modifications to the subscription state for bill@example.org from "none" to "to" and from "to" to "both"). 3. The interim roster pushes would not include all of the intermediate steps, only the final result of all modifications applied to each item while the client was in fact offline (which might have been, say, "ver34", "ver42", "ver72", and "ver96"). The client MUST handle an "interim roster push" in the same way it handles any roster push (indeed, from the client's perspective it cannot tell the difference between an "interim" roster push and a "live" roster push and therefore it has no way of knowing when it has received all of the interim roster pushes). When requesting the roster after reconnection, the client SHOULD request the version associated with the last roster push it received during its previous session, not the version associated with the roster result it received at the start of its previous session. When roster versioning is enabled, the server MUST include the updated roster version with each roster push. Roster pushes MUST occur in order of modification and the version contained in a roster push MUST be unique. Even if the client has not included the 'ver' attribute in its roster gets or sets, the server SHOULD include the 'ver' attribute on all roster pushes and results that it sends to the client. Implementation Note: Guidelines and more detailed examples for roster versioning are provided in [XEP-0237]. 3. Managing Presence Subscriptions In order to protect the privacy of instant messaging users, presence information is disclosed only to other entities that a user has approved. When a user has agreed that another entity is allowed to view its presence, the entity is said to have a SUBSCRIPTION to the user's presence. An entity that has a subscription to a user's presence or to which a user has a presence subscription is called a CONTACT (in this document the term "contact" is also used in a less Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 30] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 strict sense to refer to a potential contact or any item in a user's roster). In XMPP, a subscription lasts across presence sessions; indeed, it lasts until the contact unsubscribes or the user cancels the previously-granted subscription. Subscriptions are managed within XMPP by sending presence stanzas containing specially-defined attributes ("subscribe", "unsubscribe", "subscribed", and "unsubscribed"). Implementation Note: When a server processes or generates an outbound presence stanza of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST stamp the outgoing presence stanza with the bare JID of the sending entity, not the full JID . Enforcement of this rule simplifies the presence subscription model and helps to prevent presence leaks; for information about presence leaks, refer to the security considerations of [XMPP-CORE]. Subscription states are reflected in the rosters of both the user and the contact. This section does not cover every possible case related to presence subscriptions, and mainly narrates the protocol flows for bootstrapping a mutual subscription between a user and a contact. Complete details regarding subscription states can be found in Appendix A. 3.1. Requesting a Subscription A SUBSCRIPTION REQUEST is a request from a user for authorization to permanently subscribe to a contact's presence information; syntactically it is a presence stanza whose 'type' attribute has a value of "subscribe". A subscription request is generated by a user's client, processed by the (potential) contact's server, and acted on by the contact via the contact's client. The workflow is described in the following sections. Implementation Note: Presence subscription requests are sent to available resources, whereas the roster pushes associated with subscription state changes are sent to interested resources. Therefore if a resource wishes to receive both subscription requests and roster pushes, it MUST both send initial presence and request the roster. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 31] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 3.1.1. Client Generation of Outbound Subscription Request A user's client generates a subscription request by sending a presence stanza of type "subscribe" and specifying a 'to' address of the potential contact's bare JID . UC: When a user sends a presence subscription request to a potential instant messaging and presence contact, the value of the 'to' attribute MUST be a bare JID rather a full JID , since the desired result is for the user to receive presence from all of the contact's resources, not merely the particular resource specified in the 'to' attribute. Use of bare JIDs also simplifies subscription processing, presence probes, and presence notifications by the user's server and the contact's server. For tracking purposes, a client SHOULD include an 'id' attribute in a presence subscription request. Implementation Note: Many XMPP clients prompt the user for information about the potential contact (e.g., "handle" and desired roster group) when generating an outbound presence subscription request and therefore send a roster set before sending the outbound presence subscription request. This behavior is OPTIONAL, because a client MAY instead wait until receiving the initial roster push from the server before uploading user-provided information about the contact. A server MUST process a roster set and outbound presence subscription request in either order. 3.1.2. Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Request Upon receiving the outbound presence subscription request, the user's server MUST proceed as follows. 1. Before processing the request, the user's server SHOULD check the syntax of the JID contained in the 'to' attribute. If the JID is of the form instead of , the user's server SHOULD treat it as if the request had been directed to the contact's bare JID and modify the 'to' address accordingly. The server MAY also verify that the JID adheres to the format defined in [XMPP-ADDR] and possibly return a stanza error. 2. If the potential contact is hosted on the same server as the user, then the server MUST adhere to the rules specified in the next section in processing the subscription request and Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 32] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 delivering it to the (local) contact. 3. If the potential contact is hosted on a remote server, subject to local service policies the user's server MUST then route the stanza to that remote domain in accordance with core XMPP stanza processing rules. (This can result in returning an appropriate stanza error to the user, such as .) As mentioned, before locally delivering or remotely routing the presence subscription request, the user's server MUST stamp the outbound subscription request with the bare JID of the user. US: If the presence subscription request cannot be locally delivered or remotely routed (e.g., because the request is malformed, the local contact does not exist, the remote server does not exist, an attempt to contact the remote server times out, or any other error determined or experienced by the user's server), then the user's server MUST return an appropriate error stanza to the user. An example follows. US: After locally delivering or remotely routing the presence subscription request, the user's server MUST then send a roster push to all of the user's interested resources, containing the potential contact with a subscription state of "none" and with notation that the subscription is pending (via an 'ask' attribute whose value is "subscribe"). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 33] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 US: US: If a remote contact does not approve or deny the subscription request within some configurable amount of time, the user's server SHOULD resend the subscription request to the contact based on an implementation-specific algorithm (e.g., whenever a new resource becomes available for the user, or after a certain amount of time has elapsed); this helps to recover from transient, silent errors that might have occurred when the original subscription request was routed to the remote domain. When doing so, it is RECOMMENDED for the server to include an 'id' attribute so that it can track responses to the resent subscription request. 3.1.3. Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Request Before processing the inbound presence subscription request, the contact's server SHOULD check the syntax of the JID contained in the 'to' attribute. If the JID is of the form instead of , the contact's server SHOULD treat it as if the request had been directed to the contact's bare JID and modify the 'to' address accordingly. The server MAY also verify that the JID adheres to the format defined in [XMPP-ADDR] and possibly return a stanza error. When processing the inbound presence subscription request, the contact's server MUST adhere to the following rules: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 34] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 1. Above all, the contact's server MUST NOT automatically approve subscription requests on the contact's behalf (unless the contact has configured its account to automatically approve subscription requests or has accepted an agreement with its service provider that allows such behavior, for instance via an employment agreement within an enterprise deployment). Instead, if a subscription request requires approval then the contact's server MUST deliver that request to the contact's available resource(s) for approval or denial by the contact. 2. If the contact exists and the user already has a subscription to the contact's presence, then the contact's server MUST auto-reply on behalf of the contact by sending a presence stanza of type "subscribed" from the contact's bare JID to the user's bare JID. Likewise, if the contact previously sent a presence stanza of type "subscribed" and the contact's server treated that as indicating "pre-approval" for the user's presence subscription (see Appendix A), then the contact's server SHOULD also auto- reply on behalf of the contact. CS: 3. Otherwise, if there is at least one available resource associated with the contact when the subscription request is received by the contact's server, then the contact's server MUST broadcast that subscription request to all available resources in accordance with Section 8. As a way of acknowledging receipt of the presence subscription request, the contact's server MAY send a presence stanza of type "unavailable" from the bare JID of the contact to the bare JID of the user (the user's client MUST NOT assume that this ack provides presence information about the contact, since it comes from the contact's bare JID and is received before the subscription request has been approved). 4. Otherwise, if the contact has no available resources when the subscription request is received by the contact's server, then the contact's server MUST keep a record of the complete presence stanza comprising the subscription request, including any extended content contained therein, and then deliver the request when the contact next has an available resource. The contact's server MUST continue to deliver the subscription request whenever the contact creates an available resource, until the contact Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 35] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 either approves or denies the request. (The contact's server MUST NOT deliver more than one subscription request from any given user when the contact next has an available resource; e.g., if the user sends multiple subscription requests to the contact while the contact is offline, the contact's server SHOULD store only one of those requests, such as the first request or last request, and MUST deliver only one of the requests when the contact next has an available resource; this helps to prevent "subscription request spam".) As a way of acknowledging receipt of the presence subscription request, the contact's server MAY send a presence stanza of type "unavailable" from the bare JID of the contact to the bare JID of the user, since it comes from the contact's bare JID and is received before the subscription request has been approved). Security Note: Until and unless the contact approves the subscription request as described under Section 3.1.4, the contact's server MUST NOT add an item for the user to the contact's roster. 3.1.4. Client Processing of Inbound Subscription Request When the contact's client receives a subscription request from the user, it MUST present the request to the contact for approval (unless the contact has explicitly configured the client to automatically approve or deny some or all subscription requests). A subscription request is approved by sending a presence stanza of type "subscribed", which is processed as described under Section 3.1.5 for the contact's server and Section 3.1.6 for the user's server. CC: A subscription request is denied by sending a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed", which is processed as described under Section 3.2 for both the contact's server and the user's server. CC: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 36] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 3.1.5. Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Approval When the contact's client sends the subscription approval, the contact's server MUST stamp the outbound stanza with the bare JID of the contact and locally deliver or remotely route the stanza to the user. CS: The contact's server then MUST send an updated roster push to all of the contact's interested resources, with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "from". (Here we assume that the contact does not already have a subscription to the user; if that were the case, the 'subscription' attribute would be set to a value of "both", as defined under Appendix A.) CS: CS: From the perspective of the contact, there now exists a subscription from the user, which is why the 'subscription' attribute is set to a value of "from". (Here we assume that the contact does not already have a subscription to the user; if that were the case, the 'subscription' attribute would be set to a value of "both", as defined under Appendix A.) The contact's server MUST then also send current presence to the user from each of the contact's available resources. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 37] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 CS: CS: In order to subscribe to the user's presence, the contact would then need to send a subscription request to the user. (XMPP clients will often automatically send the subscription request instead of requiring the contact to initiate the subscription request, since it is assumed that the desired end state is a mutual subscription.) Naturally, when the contact sends a subscription request to the user, the subscription states will be different from those shown in the foregoing examples (see Appendix A) and the roles will be reversed. 3.1.6. Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Approval When the user's server receives the subscription approval, it MUST first check if the contact is in the user's roster with subscription='none' or subscription='from' and the 'ask' flag set to "subscribe" (i.e., a subscription state of "None + Pending Out", "None + Pending Out+In", or "From + Pending Out"; see Appendix A). If this check is successful, then the user's server MUST: 1. Deliver the inbound subscription approval to all of the user's interested resources (this helps to give the user's client(s) proper context regarding the subscription approval so that they can differentiate between a roster push originated by another of the user's resources and a subscription approval received from the contact). This MUST occur before sending the roster push described in the next step. US: 2. Initiate a roster push to all of the user's interested resources, containing an updated roster item for the contact with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "to" (if the subscription state was "None + Pending Out" or "None + Pending Out+In") or "both" (if the subscription state was "From + Pending Out"). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 38] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 US: US: 3. The user's server MUST also deliver the available presence stanza received from each of the contact's available resources to each of the user's available resources. [ ... to resource1 ... ] US: [ ... to resource2 ... ] US: [ ... to resource1 ... ] US: [ ... to resource2 ... ] US: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 39] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Implementation Note: If the account has no available resources when the inbound subscribed notification is received, a server MAY keep a record of the notification (ideally the complete presence stanza) and then deliver the notification when the account next has an available resource. This behavior provides more complete signalling to the user regarding the reasons for the roster change that occurred while the user was offline. Otherwise -- that is, if the user does not exist, if the contact is not in the user's roster, or if the contact is in the user's roster with a subscription state other than those described in the foregoing check -- then the user's server MUST silently ignore the subscription approval stanza by not delivering it to the user, not modifying the user's roster, and not generating a roster push to the user's interested resources. From the perspective of the user, there now exists a subscription to the contact's presence (which is why the 'subscription' attribute is set to a value of "to"). 3.2. Cancelling a Subscription 3.2.1. Client Generation of Subscription Cancellation If a contact would like to cancel a subscription that it has previously granted to a user (or deny a subscription request), it sends a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed". CC: 3.2.2. Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Cancellation Upon receiving the outbound subscription cancellation, the contact's server MUST proceed as follows. 1. If the user is hosted on the same server as the contact, then the server MUST adhere to the rules specified in the next section in processing the subscription cancellation. 2. If the user is hosted on a remote server, subject to local service policies the contact's server MUST then route the stanza to that remote domain in accordance with core XMPP stanza processing rules. (This can result in returning an appropriate stanza error to the contact, such as .) Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 40] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 As mentioned, before locally delivering or remotely routing the stanza, the contact's server MUST stamp the outbound subscription cancellation with the bare JID of the contact. CS: The contact's server then MUST send a roster push with the updated roster item to all of the contact's interested resources, where the subscription state is now either "none" or "to" (see Appendix A). CS: CS: The contact's server then MUST send a presence stanza of type "unavailable" from all of the contact's online resources to the user. CS: CS: 3.2.3. Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Cancellation When the user's server receives the inbound subscription cancellation, it MUST first check if the contact is in the user's roster with subscription='to' or subscription='both' (see Appendix A). If this check is successful, then the user's server Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 41] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 MUST: 1. Deliver the inbound subscription cancellation to all of the user's interested resources (this helps to give the user's client(s) proper context regarding the subscription cancellation so that they can differentiate between a roster push originated by another of the user's resources and a subscription cancellation received from the contact). This MUST occur before sending the roster push described in the next step. US: 2. Initiate a roster push to all of the user's interested resources, containing an updated roster item for the contact with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "none" (if the subscription state was "To" or "To + Pending In") or "from" (if the subscription state was "Both"). US: US: The user's server MUST also deliver the inbound presence stanzas of type "unavailable". Implementation Note: If the account has no available resources when the inbound unsubscribed notification is received, a server MAY keep a record of the notification (ideally the complete Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 42] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 presence stanza) and then deliver the notification when the account next has an available resource. This behavior provides more complete signalling to the user regarding the reasons for the roster change that occurred while the user was offline. Otherwise -- that is, if the user does not exist, if the contact is not in the user's roster, or if the contact is in the user's roster with a subscription state other than those described in the foregoing check -- then the user's server MUST silently ignore the subscription cancellation stanza by not delivering it to the user, not modifying the user's roster, and not generating a roster push to the user's interested resources. 3.3. Unsubscribing 3.3.1. Client Generation of Unsubscribe If a user would like to unsubscribe from a contact's presence, it sends a presence stanza of type "unsubscribe". UC: 3.3.2. Server Processing of Outbound Unsubscribe Upon receiving the outbound unsubscribe, the user's server MUST proceed as follows. 1. If the contact is hosted on the same server as the user, then the server MUST adhere to the rules specified in the next section in processing the subscription request. 2. If the contact is hosted on a remote server, subject to local service policies the user's server MUST then route the stanza to that remote domain in accordance with core XMPP stanza processing rules. (This can result in returning an appropriate stanza error to the user, such as .) As mentioned, before locally delivering or remotely routing the unsubscribe, the user's server MUST stamp the stanza with the bare JID of the user. US: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 43] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 The user's server then MUST send a roster push with the updated roster item to all of the user's interested resources, where the subscription state is now either "none" or "from" (see Appendix A). US: US: 3.3.3. Server Processing of Inbound Unsubscribe When the contact's server receives the unsubscribe notification, it MUST first check if the user is in the contact's roster with subscription='from' or subscription='both' (i.e., a subscription state of "From", "From + Pending Out", or "Both"; see Appendix A). If this check is successful, then the contact's server MUST: 1. Deliver the inbound unsubscribe to all of the contact's interested resources (this helps to give the contact's client(s) proper context regarding the unsubscribe so that they can differentiate between a roster push originated by another of the contact's resources and an unsubscribe received from the user). This MUST occur before sending the roster push described in the next step. CS: 2. Initiate a roster push to all of the contact's interested resources, containing an updated roster item for the contact with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "none" (if the Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 44] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 subscription state was "From" or "From + Pending Out") or "to" (if the subscription state was "Both"). CS: CS: 3. Generate an outbound presence stanza of type "unavailable" from each of the contact's available resources to the user. CS: Implementation Note: If the account has no available resources when the inbound unsubscribe notification is received, a server MAY keep a record of the notification (ideally the complete presence stanza) and then deliver the notification when the account next has an available resource. This behavior provides more complete signalling to the user regarding the reasons for the roster change that occurred while the user was offline. Otherwise -- that is, if the contact does not exist, if the user is not in the contact's roster, or if the user is in the contact's roster with a subscription state other than those described in the foregoing check -- then the contact's server MUST silently ignore the unsubscribe stanza by not delivering it to the contact, not modifying the contact's roster, and not generating a roster push to the contact's interested resources. However, if the contact's server is keeping track of an inbound presence subscription request from the user to the contact but the user is not yet in the contact's roster Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 45] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 (functionally equivalent to a subscription state of "None + Pending In" where the contact never added the user to the contact's roster), then the contact's server MUST simply remove any record of the inbound presence subscription request (it cannot remove the user from the contact's roster because the user was never added to the contact's roster). Implementation Note: The user's client MUST NOT depend on receiving the unavailable presence notification, since it MUST consider its presence subscription to the contact, and its presence information about the contact, to be null and void when it sends the presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" or when it receives the roster push triggered by the unsubscribe request. 4. Exchanging Presence Information 4.1. Overview The concept of presence refers to an entity's availability for communication over a network. At the most basic level, presence is a boolean "on/off" variable that signals whether an entity is available or unavailable for communication (the terms "online" and "offline" are also used). In XMPP, an entity's availability is signalled when its client generates a stanza with no 'type' attribute, and an entity's lack of availability is signalled when its client generates a stanza whose 'type' attribute has a value of "unavailable". XMPP presence typically follows a "publish-subscribe" or "observer" pattern, wherein an entity sends presence to its server, and its server then broadcasts that information to all of the entity's contacts who have a subscription to the entity's presence (in the terminology of [IMP-MODEL], an entity that generates presence is a "presentity" and the entities that receive presence are "subscribers"). A client generates presence for broadcasting to all subscribed entities by sending a presence stanza to its server with no 'to' address, where the presence stanza has either no 'type' attribute or a 'type' attribute whose value is "unavailable". This kind of presence is called BROADCAST PRESENCE. (A client can also send DIRECTED PRESENCE, i.e., a presence stanza with a 'to' address; this is less common but is sometimes used to send presence to entities that are not subscribed to the user's presence; see Section 4.6.) After a client completes the preconditions specified in [XMPP-CORE], it can establish a PRESENCE SESSION at its server by sending initial presence (Section 4.2), where the presence session is terminated by Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 46] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 sending unavailable presence (Section 4.5). For the duration of its presence session, a connected resource (in the terminology of [XMPP-CORE]) is said to be an AVAILABLE RESOURCE. In XMPP applications that combine messaging and presence functionality, the default type of communication for which presence signals availability is messaging; however, it is not necessary for XMPP applications to combine messaging and presence functionality, and they can provide standalone presence features without messaging (in addition, XMPP servers do not require information about network availability in order to successfully route message and IQ stanzas). Informational Note: In the examples that follow, the user is , she has two available resources ("balcony" and "chamber"), and she has three contacts in her roster with a subscription state of "from" or "both": , , and . 4.2. Initial Presence 4.2.1. Client Generation of Initial Presence After completing the preconditions described in [XMPP-CORE] (REQUIRED) and requesting the roster (RECOMMENDED), a client signals its availability for communication by sending INITIAL PRESENCE to its server, i.e., a presence stanza with no 'to' address (indicating that it is meant to be broadcast by the server on behalf of the client) and no 'type' attribute (indicating the user's availability). UC: The initial presence stanza MAY contain the element, the element, and one or more instances of the element, as well as extended content; see Section 4.7 for details. 4.2.2. Server Processing of Outbound Initial Presence Upon receiving initial presence from a client, the user's server MUST send the initial presence stanza from the full JID of the user to all contacts that are subscribed to the user's presence; such contacts are those for which a JID is present in the user's roster with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "from" or "both". Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 47] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 US: US: US: The user's server MUST also broadcast initial presence from the user's newly available resource to all of the user's available resources, including the resource that generated the presence notification in the first place (i.e., an entity is implicitly subscribed to its own presence). [... to the "balcony" resource ...] US: [... to the "chamber" resource ...] US: In the absence of presence information about the user's contacts, the user's server MUST also send presence probes to the user's contacts on behalf of the user as specified under Section 4.3. 4.2.3. Server Processing of Inbound Initial Presence Upon receiving presence from the user, the contact's server MUST deliver the user's presence stanza to all of the contact's available resources. [ ... to resource1 ... ] CS: [ ... to resource2 ... ] CS: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 48] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 4.2.4. Client Processing of Initial Presence When the contact's client receives presence from the user, the following behavior is suggested: 1. If the user is in the contact's roster, display the presence information in an appropriate roster interface. 2. If the user is not in the contact's roster but the contact and the user are actively exchanging message or IQ stanzas, SHOULD display the presence information in the user interface for that communication session (see also Section 4.6 and Section 5.1). 3. Otherwise, ignore the presence information and not display it to the contact. 4.3. Presence Probes A PRESENCE PROBE is a request for a contact's current presence information, sent on behalf of a user by the user's server; syntactically it is a presence stanza whose 'type' attribute has a value of "probe". In the context of presence subscriptions, the value of the 'from' address MUST be the bare JID of the subscribed user and the value of the 'to' address MUST be the bare JID of the contact to which the user is subscribed, since presence subscriptions are based on the bare JID. Interoperability Note: RFC 3921 specified that probes are sent from the full JID, not the bare JID. Some existing implementations follow the bare JID rule, and others follow the full JID rule. Probes can also be sent outside the context of a presence subscription, e.g. when the contact has sent directed presence to an entity as described under Section 4.6; in this case the value of the 'from' or 'to' address can be a full JID instead of a bare JID. US: Implementation Note: Although presence probes MAY be sent by a client, in general a client will not need to send them since the task of gathering presence from a user's contacts is managed by the user's server. However, if a client generates an outbound presence probe then the user's server SHOULD route the probe (if Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 49] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 the contact is at another server) or process the probe (if the contact is at the same server) and MUST NOT return a stanza or stream error to the client. 4.3.1. Server Generation of Outbound Presence Probe When a server needs to discover the availability of a user's contact, it sends a presence probe from the bare JID of the user to the bare JID of the contact. Implementation Note: Although presence probes are intended for sending to contacts (i.e., entities to which a user is subscribed), a MAY send a presence probe to the full JID of an entity from which the user has received presence information during the current session. The user's server SHOULD send a presence probe whenever the user starts a new presence session by sending initial presence; however, the server MAY choose not to send the probe at that point if it has what it deems to be reliable and up-to-date presence information about the user's contacts (e.g., because the user has another available resource or because the user briefly logged off and on before the new presence session began). In addition, a server MAY periodically send a presence probe to a contact if it has not received presence information or other traffic from the contact in some configurable amount of time; this can help to prevent "ghost" contacts who appear to be online but in fact are not. US: US: Naturally, the user's server does not need to send a presence probe to a contact if the contact's account resides on the same server as the user, since the server possesses the contact's information locally. 4.3.2. Server Processing of Inbound Presence Probe Upon receiving a presence probe to the contact's bare JID from the user's server on behalf of the user, the contact's server MUST reply as follows: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 50] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 1. If the contact account does not exist or the user is in the contact's roster with a subscription state other than "From", "From + Pending Out", or "Both" (as defined under Appendix A) and the contact has not sent directed presence to the user (as defined under Section 4.6), then the contact's server MUST return a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" in response to the presence probe (this will trigger a protocol flow for cancelling the user's subscription to the contact; see Section 3.2). Here the 'from' address MUST be the bare JID of the contact, since specifying a full JID would constitute a presence leak as described in [XMPP-CORE]. CS: However, if a server receives a presence probe from a configured hostname of the server itself or another such trusted service, it MAY provide presence information about the user to that entity. 2. Else, if the contact has moved temporarily or permanently to another address, then the server SHOULD return a presence stanza of type "error" with a stanza error condition of (temporary) or (permanent) that includes the new address of the contact. CS: xmpp:la-mer@example.com 3. Else, if the contact has no available resources, then the server SHOULD reply to the presence probe by sending to the user a presence stanza of type "unavailable" (although sending unavailable presence here is preferable because it results in a deterministic answer to the probe, it is not mandatory because it can greatly increase the number of presence notifications generated by the contact's server). Here the 'from' address is the bare JID because there is no available resource associated with the contact. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 51] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 If appropriate in accordance with local security policies this presence notification MAY include the full XML of the last unavailable presence stanza that the server received from the contact (including the 'id' of the original stanza), but if not then the presence notification SHOULD simply indicate that the contact is unavailable without any of the details originally provided. In any case the presence notification returned to the probing entity SHOULD include information about the time when the last unavailable presence stanza was generated (formatted using the XMPP delayed delivery extension [DELAY]). CS: 4. Else, if the contact has at least one available resource, then the server MUST reply to the presence probe by sending to the user the full XML of the last presence stanza with no 'to' attribute received by the server from each of the contact's available resources. Here the 'from' addresses are the full JIDs of each available resource. CS: CS: away If the contact's server receives a presence probe addressed to a full JID of the contact, the server MUST NOT return presence information about any resource except the resource specified by the 'to' address of the probe. Rules #1 and #2 for a bare JID probe apply equally to the case of a full JID probe. If there is a resource matching the full JID and (a) the probing entity has authorization via a presence subscription to see the contact's presence or (b) the contact has sent directed available presence to the probing entity, then the server MUST return an available presence notification, which SHOULD communicate only the fact that the resource is available (not Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 52] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 detailed information such as the , , , or presence extensions). CS: Implementation Note: The handling of the 'id' attribute in relation to presence probes was unspecified in RFC 3921. Although the pattern of "send a probe and receive a reply" might seem like a request-response protocol, in fact it is not because the response to a probe might consist of multiple presence stanzas (one for each available resource currently active for the contact). For this reason, if the contact currently has available resources then the contact's server SHOULD preserve the 'id' attribute of the contact's original presence stanza (if any) when sending those presence notifications to the probing entity; however, if the contact currently has no available resources, the probing entity is not authorized (via presence subscription) to see the contact's presence, or an error occurs in relation to the proble, then the contact's server SHOULD mirror the 'id' of the user's presence probe when replying to the probing entity. 4.4. Subsequent Presence Broadcast 4.4.1. Client Generation of Subsequent Presence Broadcast After sending initial presence, at any time during its session the user's client can update its availability for broadcasting by sending a presence stanza with no 'to' address and no 'type' attribute. UC: away The presence broadcast MAY contain the element, the element, and one or more instances of the element, as well as extended content; see Section 4.7 for details. However, a user SHOULD send a presence update only to broadcast information that is relevant to the user's availability for communication or the communication capabilities of the resource. Information that is not relevant in this way might be of interest to the user's contacts but SHOULD be sent via other means, such as the XMPP message stanza. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 53] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 4.4.2. Server Processing of Outbound Presence Upon receiving a presence stanza expressing updated availability, the user's server MUST broadcast the full XML of that presence stanza to the contacts who meet all of the following criteria: 1. The contact is in the user's roster with a subscription type of "from" or "both". 2. The last presence stanza received from the contact during the user's presence session was not of type "unsubscribe" (because the user's server would then have changed the subscription state to either "none" or "to"; see Section 3.3 and Appendix A). As an optimization, if the subscription type is "both", then the server MAY send subsequent presence notifications to a contact only if the contact is online according to the user's server. That is, if the user's server never received a positive indication that the contact is online in response to the presence probe it sent to the contact or if the last presence stanza it received from the contact during the user's presence session was of type "unavailable", the user's server MAY opt to ned send subsequent presence notifications from the user to the contact. This optimization helps to save bandwidth, since most presence subscriptions are bidirectional and many contacts will not be online at any given time. US: away US: away US: away Implementation Note: See Section 4.6 regarding rules that supplement the foregoing for handling of directed presence. The user's server MUST also send the presence stanza to all of the user's available resources (including the resource that generated the presence notification in the first place). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 54] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 US: away US: away 4.4.3. Server Processing of Inbound Presence Upon receiving presence from the user, the contact's server MUST deliver the user's presence stanza to all of the contact's available resources. [ ... to resource1 ... ] CS: away [ ... to resource2 ... ] CS: away 4.4.4. Client Processing of Subsequent Presence From the perspective of the contact's client, there is no significant difference between initial presence broadcast and subsequent presence, so the contact's client follows the rules for processing of inbound presence defined under Section 4.4.3. 4.5. Unavailable Presence 4.5.1. Client Generation of Unavailable Presence Before ending its presence session with a server, the user's client SHOULD gracefully become unavailable by sending UNAVAILABLE PRESENCE, i.e., a presence stanza that possesses no 'to' attribute and that possesses a 'type' attribute whose value is "unavailable". UC: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 55] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Optionally, the unavailable presence stanza MAY contain one or more elements specifying the reason why the user is no longer available. UC: going on vacation However, the unavailable presence stanza MUST NOT contain the element or the element, since these elements apply only to available resources. 4.5.2. Server Processing of Outbound Unavailable Presence The user's server MUST NOT depend on receiving unavailable presence from an available resource, since the resource can become unavailable ungracefully (e.g., the resource can be timed out by the server because of inactivity). If an available resource becomes unavailable for any reason (either gracefully or ungracefully), the user's server MUST broadcast unavailable presence to all contacts that meet all of the following criteria: 1. The contact is in the user's roster with a subscription type of "from" or "both". 2. The last presence stanza received from the contact during the user's presence session was not of type "unsubscribe" (because the user's server would then have changed the subscription state to either "none" or "to"; see Section 3.3 and Appendix A). Implementation Note: See Section 4.6 regarding rules that supplement the foregoing for handling of directed presence. Implementation Note: The optimization employed for subsequent presence broadcast during a user's presence session (see Section 4.4.2) MUST NOT be employed for unavailable presence broadcast; if it were, the last presence received by the contact's server would be the user's initial presence for the presence session, with the result that the contact would consider the user to be online. If the unavailable notification was gracefully received from the client, then the server MUST broadcast the full XML of the presence stanza. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 56] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 US: going on vacation US: going on vacation US: going on vacation The user's server MUST also send the unavailable notification to all of the user's available resources (including the resource that generated the presence notification in the first place). US: going on vacation If the server detects that the user has gone offline ungracefully, then the server MUST generate the unavailable presence broadcast on the user's behalf. Implementation Note: Any presence stanza with no 'type' attribute and no 'to' attribute that the client sends after the server broadcasts or generates an unavailable presence notification MUST be routed or delivered by the user's server to all subscribers (i.e., MUST be treated as equivalent to initial presence for a new presence session). 4.5.3. Server Processing of Inbound Unavailable Presence Upon receiving an unavailable notification from the user, the contact's server MUST deliver the user's presence stanza to all of the contact's available resources. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 57] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 [ ... to resource1 ... ] CS: going on vacation [ ... to resource2 ... ] CS: going on vacation If the contact's server is optimizing subsequent presence delivery as described under Section 4.4.2, it MUST also note that the user is unavailable and appropriately update its internal representation of which entities are online. 4.5.4. Client Processing of Unavailable Presence From the perspective of the contact's client, there is no significant difference between available presence broadcast and unavailable presence broadcast, so in general the contact's client follows the rules for processing of inbound presence defined under Section 4.4.3. However, if the contact receives an unavailable notification from the bare JID of the user (rather than the full JID of a particular available resource), the contact's client SHOULD treat the unavailable notification as applying to all resources. 4.6. Directed Presence This section supplements and in some respects modifies the rules for client and server processing of presence notifications, but only for the special case of directed presence. 4.6.1. Client Generation of Directed Presence As noted, directed presence is a client-generated presence stanza with a 'to' attribute whose value is the bare JID or full JID of the other entity and with either no 'type' attribute (indicating availability) or a 'type' attribute whose value is "unavailable". Information about the use of directed presence in the context of a one-to-one chat session is provided under Section 5.1. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 58] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 4.6.2. Server Processing of Outbound Directed Presence When the user's server receives a directed presence stanza, it SHOULD process it according to the following rules. 1. If the user sends directed available or unavailable presence to a contact that is in the user's roster with a subscription type of "from" or "both" after having sent initial presence and before sending unavailable presence broadcast (i.e., during the user's presence session), the user's server MUST locally deliver or remotely route the full XML of that presence stanza but SHOULD NOT otherwise modify the contact's status regarding presence broadcast (i.e., it SHOULD include the contact's JID in any subsequent presence broadcasts initiated by the user). 2. If the user sends directed presence to an entity that is not in the user's roster with a subscription type of "from" or "both" after having sent initial presence and before sending unavailable presence broadcast (i.e., during the user's presence session), the user's server MUST locally deliver or remotely route the full XML of that presence stanza to the entity but MUST NOT modify the contact's status regarding available presence broadcast (i.e., it MUST NOT include the entity's JID in any subsequent broadcasts of available presence initiated by the user); however, if the available resource from which the user sent the directed presence becomes unavailable, the user's server MUST route that unavailable presence to the entity (if the user has not yet sent directed unavailable presence to that entity). 3. If the user sends directed presence without first sending initial presence or after having sent unavailable presence broadcast (i.e., the resource is connected but not available), the user's server MUST treat the entity to which the user sends directed presence as in case #2 above. 4.6.3. Server Processing of Inbound Directed Presence From the perspective of the contact's server, there is no significant difference between presence broadcast and directed presence, so the contact's server follows the rules for processing of inbound presence defined under Section 4.3.2, Section 4.4.3, and Section 4.5.3. 4.6.4. Client Processing of Inbound Directed Presence From the perspective of the contact's client, there is no significant difference between presence broadcast and directed presence, so the contact's client follows the rules for processing of inbound presence Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 59] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 defined under Section 4.4.3. 4.7. Presence Syntax 4.7.1. Type Attribute The absence of a 'type' attribute signals that the relevant entity is available for communication (see Section 4.2 and Section 4.4). A 'type' attribute with a value of "unavailable" signals that the relevant entity is not available for communication (see Section 4.5). The XMPP presence stanza is also used to negotiate and manage subscriptions to the presence of other entities. These tasks are completed via presence stanzas of type "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "subscribed", and "unsubscribed" as described under Section 3. If a user and contact are associated with different XMPP servers, those servers also use a special presence stanza of type "probe" in order to determine the availability of the entity on the peer server; for details, see Section 4.3. Clients SHOULD NOT send presence stanzas of type "probe". The values of the 'type' attribute can be summarized as follows: o error -- An error has occurred regarding processing of a previously-sent presence stanza; if the presence stanza is of type "error", it MUST include an child element (refer to [XMPP-CORE]). o probe -- A request for an entity's current presence; SHOULD be generated only by a server on behalf of a user. o subscribe -- The sender wishes to subscribe to the recipient's presence. o subscribed -- The sender has allowed the recipient to receive their presence. o unavailable -- The sender is no longer available for communication. o unsubscribe -- The sender is unsubscribing from the receiver's presence. o unsubscribed -- The subscription request has been denied or a previously-granted subscription has been cancelled. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 60] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 If the value of the 'type' attribute is not one of the foregoing values, the recipient or an intermediate router SHOULD return a stanza error of . Implementation Note: There is no default value for the 'type' attribute of the element; in particular, there is no value of "available". 4.7.2. Child Elements In accordance with the default namespace declaration, a presence stanza is qualified by the 'jabber:client' or 'jabber:server' namespace, which defines certain child elements of presence stanzas, in particular the , , and elements. These child elements are used to provide more detailed information about an entity's availability. Typically these child elements are included only if the presence stanza possesses no 'type' attribute, although exceptions are noted in the text that follows. 4.7.2.1. Show Element The OPTIONAL element specifies the particular availability sub-state of an entity or a specific resource thereof. A presence stanza MUST NOT contain more than one element. There are no attributes defined for the element. The XML character data of the element is not meant for presentation to a human user. The XML character data MUST be one of the following (additional availability states could be defined through a child element of the presence stanza that is qualified by a namespace other than the default namespace): o away -- The entity or resource is temporarily away. o chat -- The entity or resource is actively interested in chatting. o dnd -- The entity or resource is busy (dnd = "Do Not Disturb"). o xa -- The entity or resource is away for an extended period (xa = "eXtended Away"). If no element is provided, the entity is assumed to be online and available. Any specialized processing of availability states by recipients and intermediate routers is up to the implementation (e.g., incorporation of availability states into stanza routing and delivery logic). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 61] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 4.7.2.2. Status Element The OPTIONAL element contains human-readable XML character data specifying a natural-language description of an entity's availability. It is normally used in conjunction with the show element to provide a detailed description of an availability state (e.g., "In a meeting") when the presence stanza has no 'type' attribute. dnd Wooing Juliet There are no attributes defined for the element, with the exception of the 'xml:lang' attribute inherited from [XML]. Multiple instances of the element MAY be included, but only if each instance possesses an 'xml:lang' attribute with a distinct language value (either explicitly or by inheritance from the 'xml:lang' value of an element farther up in the XML hierarchy, which from the sender's perspective can include the XML stream header as described in [XMPP-CORE]). dnd Wooing Juliet Dvořím se Julii A presence stanza of type "unavailable" MAY also include a element to provide detailed information about why the entity is going offline. Busy IRL The child MAY also be sent in a subscription-related presence stanza (i.e., type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed") to provide a description of the action. The receiving client MAY present this information to a human user (see Section 11). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 62] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Hi, Juliet told me to add you to my buddy list. 4.7.2.3. Priority Element The OPTIONAL element contains non-human-readable XML character data that specifies the priority level of the resource. The value MUST be an integer between -128 and +127. A presence stanza MUST NOT contain more than one element. There are no attributes defined for the element. dnd Wooing Juliet Dvořím se Julii 1 If no priority is provided, the processing server or client MUST consider the priority to be zero ("0"). The client's server MAY override the priority value provided by the client (e.g., in order to impose a message handling rule of delivering a message intended for the account's bare JID to all of the account's available resources); if the server does so, it MUST include the modified priority value (typically zero) when it echoes the client's presence back to itself and sends the presence notification to the user's contacts. For information regarding the semantics of priority values in stanza processing within instant messaging and presence applications, refer to Section 8. 4.7.3. Extended Content As described in [XMPP-CORE], an XML stanza MAY contain any child element that is qualified by a namespace other than the default namespace; this applies to the presence stanza as well. (In the following example, the presence stanza includes entity capabilities information as defined in [XEP-0115]).) Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 63] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Any extended content included in a presence stanza SHOULD represent aspects of an entity's availability for communication or provide information about communication-related capabilities. 5. Exchanging Messages Once a client has authenticated with a server and bound a resource to an XML stream as described in [XMPP-CORE], an XMPP server will route XML stanzas to and from that client. One kind of stanza that can be exchanged is (if, that is, messaging functionality is enabled on the server). Exchanging messages is a basic use of XMPP and occurs when a user generates a message stanza that is addressed to another entity. As defined under Section 8, the sender's server is responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient (if the recipient is on the same local server) or for routing the message to the recipient's server (if the recipient is on a remote server). Thus a message stanza is used to "push" information to another entity. 5.1. One-to-One Chat Sessions In practice, instant messaging activity between human users tends to occur in the form of a conversational burst that we call a CHAT SESSION: the exchange of multiple messages between two parties in relatively rapid succession within a relatively brief period of time. When a human user intends to engage in such a chat session with a contact (rather than sending a single message to which no reply is expected), the message type generated by the user's client SHOULD be "chat" and the contact's client SHOULD preserve that message type in subsequent replies. The user's client also SHOULD include a element with its initial message, which the contact's client SHOULD also preserve during the life of the chat session (see Section 5.2.5). The user's client SHOULD address the initial message in a chat session to the bare JID of the contact (rather than attempting to guess an appropriate full JID based on the , , or value of any presence notifications it has received from the contact). Until and unless Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 64] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 the user's client receives a reply from the contact, it SHOULD send any further messages to the contact's bare JID. The contact's client SHOULD address its replies to the user's full JID as provided in the 'from' address of the initial message. Once the user's client receives a reply from the contact's full JID, it SHOULD address its subsequent messages to the contact's full JID as provided in the 'from' address of the contact's replies, thus "locking in" on that full JID. A client SHOULD "unlock" after having received a or stanza from any other resource controlled by the peer (or a presence stanza from the locked resource); as a result, it SHOULD address its next message(s) in the chat session to the bare JID of the peer (thus "unlocking" the previous "lock") until it receives a message from one of the peer's full JIDs. When two parties engage in a chat session but do not share presence with each other based on a presence subscription, they SHOULD send directed presence to each other so that either party can easily discover if the peer changes its availability or goes offline during the course of the chat session. However, a client MUST provide a way for a user to disable such presence sharing globally or to enable it only with particular entities. Furthermore, a party SHOULD send directed unavailable presence to the peer when it has reason to believe that the chat session is over (e.g., if, after some reasonable amount of time, no subsequent messages have been exchanged between the parties). An example of a chat session is provided under Section 7. 5.2. Message Syntax The following sections describe the syntax of the stanza. 5.2.1. To Attribute An instant messaging client specifies an intended recipient for a message by providing the JID of the intended recipient in the 'to' attribute of the stanza. If the message is being sent outside the context of any existing chat session or received message, the value of the 'to' address SHOULD be of the form rather than of the form (see Section 5.1). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 65] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? If the message is being sent in reply to a message previously received from an address of the form (e.g., within the context of a one-to-one chat session as described under Section 5.1), the value of the 'to' address SHOULD be of the form rather than of the form unless the sender has knowledge (e.g., via presence) that the intended recipient's resource is no longer available. Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. 5.2.2. Type Attribute Common uses of the message stanza in instant messaging applications include: single messages; messages sent in the context of a one-to- one chat session; messages sent in the context of a multi-user chat room; alerts, notifications, or other information to which no reply is expected; and errors. These uses are differentiated via the 'type' attribute. Inclusion of the 'type' attribute is RECOMMENDED. If included, the 'type' attribute MUST have one of the following values: o chat -- The message is sent in the context of a one-to-one chat session. Typically a receiving client will present a message of type "chat" in an interface that enables one-to-one chat between the two parties, including an appropriate conversation history. Detailed recommendations regarding one-to-one chat sessions are provided under Section 5.1. o error -- The message is generated by an entity that experiences an error in processing a message received from another entity (for details regarding stanza error syntax, refer to [XMPP-CORE]). A client that receives a message of type "error" SHOULD present an Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 66] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 appropriate interface informing the sender of the nature of the error. o groupchat -- The message is sent in the context of a multi-user chat environment (similar to that of [IRC]). Typically a receiving client will present a message of type "groupchat" in an interface that enables many-to-many chat between the parties, including a roster of parties in the chatroom and an appropriate conversation history. For detailed information about XMPP-based groupchat, refer to [XEP-0045]. o headline -- The message provides an alert, a notification, or other transient information to which no reply is expected (e.g., news headlines, sports updates, near-real-time market data, and syndicated content). Because no reply to the message is expected, typically a receiving client will present a message of type "headline" in an interface that appropriately differentiates the message from standalone messages, chat messages, or groupchat messages (e.g., by not providing the recipient with the ability to reply). If the 'to' address is the bare JID, the receiving server SHOULD deliver the message to all of the recipient's available resources with non-negative presence priority; if the 'to' address is a full JID and there is a matching resource, the server MUST deliver the message to that resource; otherwise the server MUST either silently ignore the message or return an error (see Section 8). o normal -- The message is a standalone message that is sent outside the context of a one-to-one conversation or groupchat, and to which it is expected that the recipient will reply. Typically a receiving client will present a message of type "normal" in an interface that enables the recipient to reply, but without a conversation history. The default value of the 'type' attribute is "normal". An IM application SHOULD support all of the foregoing message types. If an application receives a message with no 'type' attribute or the application does not understand the value of the 'type' attribute provided, it MUST consider the message to be of type "normal" (i.e., "normal" is the default). Guidelines for server handling of different message types is provided under Section 8. Although the 'type' attribute is OPTIONAL, it is considered polite to mirror the type in any replies to a message; furthermore, some specialized applications (e.g., a multi-user chat service) MAY at Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 67] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 their discretion enforce the use of a particular message type (e.g., type='groupchat'). 5.2.3. Body Element The element contains human-readable XML character data that specifies the textual contents of the message; this child element is normally included but is OPTIONAL. Wherefore art thou, Romeo? There are no attributes defined for the element, with the exception of the 'xml:lang' attribute. Multiple instances of the element MAY be included in a message stanza, but only if each instance possesses an 'xml:lang' attribute with a distinct language value (either explicitly or by inheritance from the 'xml:lang' value of an element farther up in the XML hierarchy, which from the sender's perspective can include the XML stream header as described in [XMPP-CORE]). Wherefore art thou, Romeo? PročeŽ jsi ty, Romeo? The element MUST NOT contain mixed content (as defined in Section 3.2.2 of [XML]). 5.2.4. Subject Element The element contains human-readable XML character data that specifies the topic of the message. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 68] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 I implore you! Wherefore art thou, Romeo? There are no attributes defined for the element, with the exception of the 'xml:lang' attribute inherited from [XML]. Multiple instances of the element MAY be included for the purpose of providing alternate versions of the same subject, but only if each instance possesses an 'xml:lang' attribute with a distinct language value (either explicitly or by inheritance from the 'xml:lang' value of an element farther up in the XML hierarchy, which from the sender's perspective can include the XML stream header as described in [XMPP-CORE]). I implore you! Úpěnlivě prosím! Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Pročež jsi ty, Romeo? The element MUST NOT contain mixed content (as defined in Section 3.2.2 of [XML]). 5.2.5. Thread Element The primary use of the XMPP element is to uniquely identify a conversation thread or "chat session" between two entities instantiated by stanzas of type 'chat'. However, the XMPP element MAY also be used to uniquely identify an analogous thread between two entities instantiated by stanzas of type 'headline' or 'normal', or among multiple entities in the context of a multi-user chat room instantiated by stanzas Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 69] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 of type 'groupchat'. It MAY also be used for stanzas not related to a human conversation, such as a game session or an interaction between plugins. The element is not used to identify individual messages, only conversations or messaging sessions. The inclusion of the element is OPTIONAL for messages of type "normal", "headline", and "groupchat", and RECOMMENDED for messages of type "chat". Because the element identifies the particular conversation thread to which a message belongs, a message stanza MUST NOT contain more than one element. The element MAY possess a 'parent' attribute that identifies another thread of which the current thread is an offshoot or child; the value of the 'parent' attribute MUST conform to the syntax of the element itself. The value of the element is not human-readable and MUST be treated as opaque by entities; no semantic meaning can be derived from it, and only exact comparisons can be made against it. The value of the element MUST uniquely identify the conversation thread either between the conversation partners or more generally (one way to ensure uniqueness is by generating a universally unique identifier (UUID) as described in [UUID]). The element MUST NOT contain mixed content (as defined in Section 3.2.2 of [XML]). I implore you! Úpěnlivě prosím! Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Pročež jsi ty, Romeo? 0e3141cd80894871a68e6fe6b1ec56fa For detailed recommendations regarding use of the element, refer to [XEP-0201]. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 70] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 5.3. Extended Content As described in [XMPP-CORE], an XML stanza MAY contain any child element that is qualified by a namespace other than the default namespace; this applies to the message stanza as well. (In the following example, the message stanza includes an XHTML- formatted version of the message as defined in [XEP-0071]).) Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

6. Exchanging IQ Stanzas As described in [XMPP-CORE], IQ stanzas provide a structured request- response mechanism. The basic semantics of that mechanism (e.g., that the 'id' attribute is mandatory) are defined in [XMPP-CORE], whereas the specific semantics needed to complete particular use cases are defined in all instances by the extended namespace that qualifies the direct child element of an IQ stanza of type "get" or "set". The 'jabber:client' and 'jabber:server' namespaces do not define any children of IQ stanzas other than the element common to all stanza types. This document defines one such extended namespace, for Managing the Roster (Section 2). However, an IQ stanza MAY contain structured information qualified by any extended namespace. 7. A Sample Session The examples in this section illustrate a possible instant messaging and presence session. The user is , he has an available resource whose resource identifier is "orchard", and he has the following individuals in his roster: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 71] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 o (subscription="both" and she has two available resources, "chamber" and "balcony") o (subscription="to") o (subscription="from") First, the user completes the preconditions (stream establishment, TLS and SASL negotiation, and resource binding) described in [XMPP-CORE]; those protocol flows are not reproduced here. Next, the user requests his roster. Example 1: User requests current roster from server: UC: Example 2: User receives roster from server: US: Friends Now the user begins a presence session. Example 3: User sends initial presence: UC: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 72] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Example 4: User's server sends presence probes to contacts with subscription="to" and subscription="both" on behalf of the user: US: US: Example 5: User's server sends initial presence to contacts with subscription="from" and subscription="both" on behalf of the user's available resource: US: US: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 73] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Example 6: Contacts' servers reply to presence probe on behalf of all available resources: CS: away be right back 0 CS: 1 CS: dnd gallivanting Example 7: Contacts' servers deliver user's initial presence to all available resources: CS: CS: CS: Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 74] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Example 8: User sends directed presence to another user not in his roster: UC: dnd courting Juliet 0 Now the user engages in a chat session with one of his contacts. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 75] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Example 9: A threaded conversation CC: My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38 CC: Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound: e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38 CC: Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38 UC: Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38 CC: How cam'st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38 And so on. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 76] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 The user can also send subsequent presence broadcast. Example 10: User sends updated available presence for broadcasting: UC: away I shall return! 1 Example 11: User's server broadcasts updated presence to the contacts who have a subscription of type "both" or "from" (but not to the entity to which the user sent directed presence): US: away I shall return! 1 US: away I shall return! 1 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 77] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Example 12: Contacts' servers deliver updated presence: CS: away I shall return! 1 CS: away I shall return! 1 CS: away I shall return! 1 Example 13: One of the contact's resources broadcasts unavailable notification: CC: Example 14: Contact's server sends unavailable notification to user: CS: Now the user ends his presence session. Example 15: User sends unavailable notification: UC: gone home Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 78] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Example 16: User's server broadcasts unavailable notification to contacts as well as to the entity to whom the user sent directed presence: US: gone home US: gone home US: gone home Finally the user closes his stream and the server responds in kind. Example 17: User closes stream: UC: Example 18: User's server closes stream: US: THE END 8. Server Rules for Processing XML Stanzas Basic server rules for processing XML stanzas are defined in [XMPP-CORE], and the reader is referred to that specification for general considerations and security implications. This section defines supplementary rules for XMPP instant messaging and presence servers. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 79] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Some delivery rules defined in this section specify the use of OFFLINE STORAGE, i.e., the server's storing a message stanza on behalf of the user and then delivering it when the user next becomes available. For recommendations regarding offline message storage, refer to [XEP-0160]. 8.1. No 'to' Address In this case, the rules defined in [XMPP-CORE] apply. 8.2. Remote Domain If the hostname of the domain identifier portion of the address contained in the 'to' attribute of an outbound stanza does not match a configured hostname of the server itself, then the server MUST attempt to route the stanza to the remote domain. If there exists an active stream between the two peers, then the server SHOULD route the stanza over that stream for processing by the peer server; if not, then the server SHOULD attempt to resolve the hostname of the remote server in adherence with the rules defined in [XMPP-CORE], negotiate XML streams with the remote domain, and route the stanza to the remote domain. However, if the server cannot resolve the remote domain, then it MUST return a stanza error to the local sender. Implementation Note: RFC 3921 described use of the _im._xmpp and _pres._xmpp SRV records (defined in [IMP-SRV]) to discover the appropriate protocol for communication with remote instant messaging and presence services. Because those SRV records have not been widely deployed, this specification no longer actively recommends that they be deployed or supported; see RFC 3921 regarding the proper formats and resolution processes. 8.3. Local Domain In this case, the rules defined in [XMPP-CORE] apply. 8.4. Localpart at Domain If the 'to' address specifies a bare JID or full JID where the domainpart of the JID matches a configured domain that is serviced by the server itself, the server MUST proceed as follows. 8.4.1. No Such User If the user account identified by the 'to' attribute does not exist, how the stanza is processed depends on the stanza type. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 80] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 o For an IQ stanza, the server MUST return a stanza error to the sender. o For a message stanza, the server MUST either (a) silently ignore the message or (b) return a stanza error to the sender. o For a presence stanza with no 'type' attribute or a 'type' attribute of "unavailable", the server MUST silently ignore the stanza. o For a presence stanza of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST silently ignore the stanza. o For a presence stanza of type "probe", the server MUST either (a) silently ignore the stanza or (b) return a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed". 8.4.2. Bare JID If the JID contained in the 'to' attribute is of the form , then the server MUST adhere to the following rules. 8.4.2.1. Available or Connected Resources If there is at least one available resource or connected resource, how the stanza is processed depends on the stanza type. 8.4.2.1.1. Message For a message stanza of type "normal": o If the only available resource has a negative presence priority then the server SHOULD either (a) store the message offline for later delivery or (b) return a stanza error to the sender, which SHOULD be . o If the only available resource has a non-negative presence priority then the server SHOULD deliver the message to that resource. o If there is more than one resource with a non-negative presence priority then the server SHOULD either (a) deliver the message to the "most available" resource or resources (according to the server's implementation-specific algorithm, e.g., treating the resource or resources with the highest presence priority as "most Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 81] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 available") or (b) deliver the message to all of the non-negative resources. For a message stanza of type "chat": o If the only available resource has a negative presence priority then the server SHOULD either (a) store the message offline for later delivery or (b) return a stanza error to the sender, which SHOULD be . o If the only available resource has a non-negative presence priority then the server SHOULD deliver the message to that resource. o If there is more than one resource with a non-negative presence priority then the server SHOULD either (a) deliver the message to the "most available" resource or resources (according to the server's implementation-specific algorithm, e.g., treating the resource or resources with the highest presence priority as "most available") or (b) deliver the message to all of the non-negative resources that have opted in to receive chat messages. For a message stanza of type "groupchat", the server MUST NOT deliver the stanza to any of the available resources but instead MUST return a stanza error to the sender, which SHOULD be . For a message stanza of type "headline": o If the only available resource has a negative presence priority then the server MUST silently ignore the stanza. o If the only available resource has a non-negative presence priority then the server SHOULD deliver the message to that resource. o If there is more than one resource with a non-negative presence priority then the server SHOULD deliver the message to all of the non-negative resources that have opted in to receive chat messages. For a message stanza of type "error", the server MUST silently ignore the message. However, for any message type the server MUST NOT deliver the stanza to any available resource with a negative priority; if the only available resource has a negative priority, the server SHOULD handle the message as if there were no available resources or connected resources as described under Section 8.4.2.2. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 82] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 In all cases, the server MUST NOT rewrite the 'to' attribute (i.e., it MUST leave it as rather than change it to ). 8.4.2.1.2. Presence For a presence stanza with no type or of type "unavailable", the server MUST deliver it to all available resources. For a presence stanza of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST adhere to the rules defined under Section 3 and summarized under Appendix A. For a presence stanza of type "probe", the server MUST handle it directly as described under Section 4.3. In all cases, the server MUST NOT rewrite the 'to' attribute (i.e., it MUST leave it as rather than change it to ). 8.4.2.1.3. IQ For an IQ stanza, the server itself MUST reply on behalf of the user with either an IQ result or an IQ error, and MUST NOT deliver the IQ stanza to any of the user's available resources. Specifically, if the semantics of the qualifying namespace define a reply that the server can provide on behalf of the user, then the server MUST reply to the stanza on behalf of the user by returning either an IQ stanza of type "result" or an IQ stanza of type "error" that is appropriate to the original payload; if not, then the server MUST reply with a stanza error. 8.4.2.2. No Available or Connected Resources If there are no available resources or connected resources associated with the user, how the stanza is processed depends on the stanza type. 8.4.2.2.1. Message For a message stanza of type "normal" or "chat", the server SHOULD either (a) add the message to offline storage or (b) return a stanza error to the sender, which SHOULD be . For a message stanza of type "groupchat", the server MUST return an error to the sender, which SHOULD be . For a message stanza of type "headline" or "error", the server MUST Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 83] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 silently ignore the message. 8.4.2.2.2. Presence For a presence stanza with no type or of type "unavailable", the server SHOULD silently ignore the stanza by not storing it for later delivery and not replying to it on behalf of the user. For a presence stanza of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST adhere to the rules defined under Section 3 and summarized under Appendix A. For a presence stanza of type "probe", the server MUST handle it directly as described under Section 4.3. 8.4.2.2.3. IQ For an IQ stanza, the server itself MUST reply on behalf of the user with either an IQ result or an IQ error. Specifically, if the semantics of the qualifying namespace define a reply that the server can provide on behalf of the user, then the server MUST reply to the stanza on behalf of the user by returning either an IQ stanza of type "result" or an IQ stanza of type "error" that is appropriate to the original payload; if not, then the server MUST reply with a stanza error. 8.4.3. Full JID If the hostname of the domain identifier portion of the JID contained in the 'to' attribute of an inbound stanza matches one of the configured hostnames of the server itself and the JID contained in the 'to' attribute is of the form , then the server MUST adhere to the following rules (subject to enforcement of relevant privacy and security policies, such as those deployed by means of [XEP-0016] or [XEP-0191]). 8.4.3.1. Resource Matches If an available resource or connected resource exactly matches the full JID, how the stanza is processed depends on the stanza type. o For an IQ stanza of type "get" or "set", if the intended recipient does not share presence with the requesting entity either by means of a presence subscription of type "both" or "from" or by means of directed presence, then the server SHOULD NOT deliver the IQ stanza but instead SHOULD return a stanza error to the requesting entity. This policy helps to prevent presence leaks (see Section 11). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 84] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 o For a message stanza, the server MUST deliver the stanza to the resource. o For a presence stanza with no 'type' attribute or a 'type' attribute of "unavailable", the server MUST deliver the stanza to the resource. o For a presence stanza of type "subscribe", the server MUST follow the guidelines provided under Section 3.1.3. o For a presence stanza of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST follow the guidelines provided under Section 3. o For a presence stanza of type "probe", the server MUST follow the guidelines provided under Section 4.3. 8.4.3.2. No Resource Matches If no available resource or connected resource exactly matches the full JID, how the stanza is processed depends on the stanza type. 8.4.3.2.1. Message For a message stanza of type "normal", "groupchat", or "headline", the server MUST either (a) silently ignore the stanza or (b) return an error stanza to the sender, which SHOULD be &;lt;service- unavailable/>. For a message stanza of type "chat": o If there is no available or connected resource, the server MUST either (a) store the message offline for later delivery or (b) return an error stanza to the sender, which SHOULD be &;lt;service-unavailable/>. o If the only available resource has a negative presence priority then the server SHOULD (a) store the message offline for later delivery or (b) return a stanza error to the sender, which SHOULD be . o If the only available resource has a non-negative presence priority then the server SHOULD deliver the message to that resource. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 85] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 o If there is more than one resource with a non-negative presence priority then the server SHOULD deliver the message to the "most available" resource or resources (according to the server's implementation-specific algorithm, e.g., treating the resource or resources with the highest presence priority as "most available") but it MAY instead deliver it to all of the non-negative resources that have opted in to receive chat messages. For a message stanza of type "error", the server MUST silently ignore the stanza. 8.4.3.2.2. Presence For a presence stanza with no 'type' attribute or a 'type' attribute of "unavailable", the server MUST silently ignore the stanza. For a presence stanza of type "subscribe", the server MUST follow the guidelines provided under Section 3.1.3. For a presence stanza of type "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST ignore the stanza. For a presence stanza of type "probe", the server MUST follow the guidelines provided under Section 4.3. 8.4.3.2.3. IQ For an IQ stanza, the server MUST return a stanza error to the sender. 8.4.4. Summary of Message Delivery Rules The following table summarizes the message delivery rules described earlier in this section. The left column shows various combinations of conditions (non-existent account, no active resources, only one resource and it has a negative presence priority, only one resource and it has a non-negative presence priority, or more than one resource and each one has a non-negative presence priority) and 'to' addresses (bare JID, full JID matching an available resource, or full JID matching no available resource). The subsequent columns list the four message types (normal, chat, groupchat, or headline) along with six possible delivery options: storing the message offline (O), bouncing the message with a stanza error (E), silently ignoring the message (S), delivering the message to the resource specified in the 'to' address (D), delivering the message to the "most available" resource or resources according to the server's implementation- specific algorithm, e.g., treating the resource or resources with the highest presence priority as "most available" (M), or delivering the Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 86] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 message to all resources with non-negative presence priority (A -- where for chat messages "all resources" can mean the set of resources that have explicitly opted in to receiving every chat message). The '/' character stands for "or". Table 1: Message Delivery Rules +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Condition | Normal | Chat | Groupchat | Headline | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | ACCOUNT DOES NOT EXIST | | bare | S/E | S/E | E | S | | full | S/E | S/E | S/E | S/E | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | ACCOUNT EXISTS, BUT NO ACTIVE RESOURCES | | bare | O/E | O/E | E | S | | full (no match) | S/E | O/E | S/E | S/E | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | 1 NEGATIVE RESOURCE | | bare | O/E | O/E | E | S | | full match | D | D | D | D | | full no match | S/E | O/E | S/E | S/E | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | 1 NON-NEGATIVE RESOURCE | | bare | D | D | E | D | | full match | D | D | D | D | | full no match | S/E | D | S/E | S/E | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | 1+ NON-NEGATIVE RESOURCES | | bare | M/A | M/A* | E | A | | full match | D | D/A* | D | D | | full no match | S/E | M/A* | S/E | S/E | +----------------------------------------------------------+ * For messages of type "chat", a server SHOULD NOT act in accordance with option (A) unless clients can explicitly opt in to receiving all chat messages; however, methods for opting in are outside the scope of this specification. 9. Handling of URIs The addresses of XMPP entities as used in communication over an XMPP network (e.g., in the 'from' and 'to' addresses of an XML stanza) MUST NOT be prepended with a Uniform Resource Identifier [URI] scheme. However, an application that is external to XMPP itself (e.g., a page on the World Wide Web) might need to identify an XMPP entity either as a URI or as an Internationalized Resource Identifier Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 87] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 [IRI], and an XMPP client might need to interact with such an external application (for example, an XMPP client might be invoked by clicking a link provided on a web page). In the context of such interactions, an XMPP client SHOULD handle addresses that are encoded as "xmpp:" URIs and IRIs as specified in [XMPP-URI] and further described in [XEP-0147]. A client SHOULD also handle addresses that are encoded as "im:" URIs as specified in [CPIM] and "pres:" URIs as specified in [CPP], although it MAY do so by removing the "im:" or "pres:" scheme and entrusting address resolution to the server as specified under Section 8.2. 10. Internationalization Considerations For internationalization considerations, refer to the relevant section of [XMPP-CORE]. 11. Security Considerations Core security considerations for XMPP are defined in the relevant section of [XMPP-CORE]. Additional considerations that apply only to instant messaging and presence applications of XMPP are defined in several places within this document; specifically: o When a server processes an inbound presence stanza of type "probe" whose intended recipient is a user associated with one of the server's hostnames, the server MUST NOT reveal the user's presence if the sender is an entity that is not authorized to receive that information as determined by presence subscriptions (see Section 4). o A user's server MUST NOT leak the user's network availability to entities who are not authorized to know the user's presence, either via an explicit subscription as described herein or via an existing trust relationship (such as presence-enabled user directories within organizations). o When a server processes an outbound presence stanza with no type or of type "unavailable", it MUST follow the rules defined under Section 4 in order to ensure that such presence information is not sent to entities that are not authorized to know such information. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 88] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 o A client MAY ignore the element when contained in a presence stanza of type "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "subscribed", or "unsubscribed"; this can help prevent "presence subscription spam". 12. IANA Considerations This specification requests no actions from the IANA. 13. Conformance Requirements This section describes a protocol feature set that summarizes the conformance requirements of this specification. This feature set is appropriate for use in software certification, interoperability testing, and implementation reports. For each feature, this section provides the following information: o A human-readable name o An informational description o A reference to the particular section of this document that normatively defines the feature o Whether the feature applies to the Client role, the Server role, or both (where "N/A" signifies that the feature is not applicable to the specified role) o Whether the feature MUST or SHOULD be implemented, where the capitalized terms are to be understood as described in [KEYWORDS] The feature set specified here attempts to adhere to the concepts and formats proposed by Larry Masinter within the IETF's NEWTRK Working Group in 2005, as captured in [INTEROP]. Although this feature set is more detailed than called for by [REPORTS], it provides a suitable basis for the generation of implementation reports to be submitted in support of advancing this specification from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard in accordance with [PROCESS]. Feature: message-body Description: Support the child element of the stanza. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 89] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Section: Section 5.2.3 Roles: Client MUST, Server N/A. Feature: message-subject Description: Support the child element of the stanza. Section: Section 5.2.4 Roles: Client SHOULD, Server N/A. Feature: message-thread Description: Support the child element of the stanza. Section: Section 5.2.5 Roles: Client SHOULD, Server N/A. Feature: message-type-support Description: Support reception of messages of type "normal", "chat", "groupchat", "headline", and "error". Section: Section 5.2.2 Roles: Client SHOULD, Server N/A. Feature: message-type-deliver Description: Appropriately deliver messages of type "normal", "chat", "groupchat", "headline", and "error". Section: Section 8 Roles: Client N/A, Server SHOULD. Feature: presence-notype Description: Treat a presence stanza with no 'type' attribute as indicating availability. Section: Section 4.7.1 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Feature: presence-probe Description: Send and receive presence stanzas with a 'type' attribute of "probe" for the discovery of presence information. Section: Section 4.7.1 Roles: Client N/A, Server MUST. Feature: presence-sub-approval Description: Treat an outbound presence stanza of type "subscribed" as the act of approving a presence subscription request previously received from another entity, and treat an inbound presence stanza of type "subscribed" as a subscription approval from another entity. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 90] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Section: Section 3.1 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Feature: presence-sub-cancel Description: Treat an outbound presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" as the act of denying a subscription request received from another entity or cancelling a subscription approval previously granted to another entity, and treat an inbound presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" as an subscription denial or cancellation from another entity. Section: Section 3.2 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Feature: presence-sub-request Description: Treat an outbound presence stanza of type "subscribe" as the act of requesting a subscription to the presence information of another entity, and treat an inbound presence stanza of type "subscribe" as a presence subscription request from another entity. Section: Section 3.1 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Feature: presence-sub-unsubscribe Description: Treat an outbound presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" as the act of unsubscribing from another entity, and treat an inbound presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" as an unsubscribe notification from another entity. Section: Section 3.3 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Feature: presence-unavailable Description: Treat a presence stanza with a 'type' attribute of "unavailable" as indicating lack of availability. Section: Section 4.7.1 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Feature: roster-get Description: Treat an IQ stanza of type "get" containing an empty element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace as a request to retrieve the roster information associated with an account on a server. Section: Section 2.1.3 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 91] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Feature: roster-set Description: Treat an IQ stanza of type "set" containing a element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace as a request to add or update the item contained in the element. Section: Section 2.1.5 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Feature: roster-push Description: Send a roster push to each interested resource whenever the server-side representation of the roster information materially changes, or handle such a push when received from the server. Section: Section 2.1.6 Roles: Client MUST, Server MUST. Feature: roster-version Description: Treat the 'ver' attribute of the element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace as an identifier of the particular version of roster information being sent or received. Section: Section 2.1.1 Roles: Client SHOULD, Server MUST. 14. References 14.1. Normative References [DELAY] Saint-Andre, P., "Delayed Delivery", XSF XEP 0203, September 2009. [KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [XML] Maler, E., Yergeau, F., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Paoli, J., and T. Bray, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC- xml-20081126, November 2008, . [XML-NAMES] Bray, T., Hollander, D., and A. Layman, "Namespaces in XML", W3C REC-xml-names, January 1999, . [XMPP-CORE] Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 92] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Protocol (XMPP): Core", draft-ietf-xmpp-3920bis-12 (work in progress), August 2010. [XMPP-URI] Saint-Andre, P., "Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)", RFC 5122, February 2008. 14.2. Informative References [CPIM] Peterson, J., "Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM)", RFC 3860, August 2004. [CPP] Peterson, J., "Common Profile for Presence (CPP)", RFC 3859, August 2004. [IMP-MODEL] Day, M., Rosenberg, J., and H. Sugano, "A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging", RFC 2778, February 2000. [IMP-REQS] Day, M., Aggarwal, S., and J. Vincent, "Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements", RFC 2779, February 2000. [IMP-SRV] Peterson, J., "Address Resolution for Instant Messaging and Presence", RFC 3861, August 2004. [INTEROP] Masinter, L., "Formalizing IETF Interoperability Reporting", draft-ietf-newtrk-interop-reports-00 (work in progress), October 2005. [IRC] Kalt, C., "Internet Relay Chat: Architecture", RFC 2810, April 2000. [IRI] Duerst, M. and M. Suignard, "Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)", RFC 3987, January 2005. [PROCESS] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996. [REPORTS] Dusseault, L. and R. Sparks, "Guidance on Interoperation and Implementation Reports for Advancement to Draft Standard", BCP 9, RFC 5657, September 2009. [RFC3920] Saint-Andre, P., Ed., "Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core", RFC 3920, October 2004. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 93] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 [RFC3921] Saint-Andre, P., Ed., "Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence", RFC 3921, October 2004. [SASL] Melnikov, A. and K. Zeilenga, "Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)", RFC 4422, June 2006. [TLS] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008. [URI] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005. [UUID] Leach, P., Mealling, M., and R. Salz, "A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace", RFC 4122, July 2005. [XEP-0016] Millard, P. and P. Saint-Andre, "Privacy Lists", XSF XEP 0016, February 2007. [XEP-0045] Saint-Andre, P., "Multi-User Chat", XSF XEP 0045, July 2008. [XEP-0054] Saint-Andre, P., "vcard-temp", XSF XEP 0054, July 2008. [XEP-0071] Saint-Andre, P., "XHTML-IM", XSF XEP 0071, September 2008. [XEP-0115] Hildebrand, J., Saint-Andre, P., and R. Troncon, "Entity Capabilities", XSF XEP 0115, February 2008. [XEP-0147] Saint-Andre, P., "XMPP URI Scheme Query Components", XSF XEP 0147, September 2006. [XEP-0160] Saint-Andre, P., "Best Practices for Handling Offline Messages", XSF XEP 0160, January 2006. [XEP-0191] Saint-Andre, P., "Simple Communications Blocking", XSF XEP 0191, February 2007. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 94] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 [XEP-0201] Saint-Andre, P., Paterson, I., and K. Smith, "Best Practices for Message Threads", XSF XEP 0201, May 2010. [XEP-0237] Saint-Andre, P. and D. Cridland, "Roster Versioning", XSF XEP 0237, March 2010. [XML-SCHEMA] Thompson, H., Maloney, M., Mendelsohn, N., and D. Beech, "XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-xmlschema-1-20041028, October 2004, . [XMPP-ADDR] Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Address Format", draft-ietf-xmpp-address-03 (work in progress), July 2010. [VCARD] Dawson, F. and T. Howes, "vCard MIME Directory Profile", RFC 2426, September 1998. Appendix A. Subscription States This section provides detailed information about subscription states and server processing of subscription-related presence stanzas (i.e., presence stanzas of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", and "unsubscribed"). A.1. Defined States There are four primary subscription states (these states are described from the perspective of the user, not the contact): None: the user does not have a subscription to the contact's presence, and the contact does not have a subscription to the user's presence To: the user has a subscription to the contact's presence, but the contact does not have a subscription to the user's presence From: the contact has a subscription to the user's presence, but the user does not have a subscription to the contact's presence Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 95] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Both: both the user and the contact have subscriptions to each other's presence (i.e., the union of 'from' and 'to') These states are supplemented by various pending sub-states to yield nine possible subscription states: 1. "None" = contact and user are not subscribed to each other, and neither has requested a subscription from the other; this is reflected in the user's roster by subscription='none' 2. "None + Pending Out" = contact and user are not subscribed to each other, and user has sent contact a subscription request but contact has not replied yet; this is reflected in the user's roster by subscription='none' and ask='subscribe' 3. "None + Pending In" = contact and user are not subscribed to each other, and contact has sent user a subscription request but user has not replied yet; this state might or might not be reflected in the user's roster, as follows: if the user has created a roster item for the contact then the server MUST maintain that roster item and also note the existence of the inbound presence subscription request, whereas if the user has not created a roster item for the contact then the user's server MUST note the existence of the inbound presence subscription request but MUST NOT create a roster item for the contact (instead, the server MUST wait until the user has approved the subscription request before adding the contact to the user's roster). 4. "None + Pending Out+In" = contact and user are not subscribed to each other, contact has sent user a subscription request but user has not replied yet, and user has sent contact a subscription request but contact has not replied yet; this is reflected in the user's roster by subscription='none' and ask='subscribe' 5. "To" = user is subscribed to contact (one-way); this is reflected in the user's roster by subscription='to' 6. "To + Pending In" = user is subscribed to contact, and contact has sent user a subscription request but user has not replied yet; this is reflected in the user's roster by subscription='to' 7. "From" = contact is subscribed to user (one-way); this is reflected in the user's roster by subscription='from' 8. "From + Pending Out" = contact is subscribed to user, and user has sent contact a subscription request but contact has not replied yet; this is reflected in the user's roster by Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 96] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 subscription='from' and ask='subscribe' 9. "Both" = user and contact are subscribed to each other (two-way); this is reflected in the user's roster by subscription='both' A.2. Server Processing of Outbound Presence Subscription Stanzas Outbound presence subscription stanzas enable the user to manage his or her subscription to the contact's presence (via the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" types), and to manage the contact's access to the user's presence (via the "subscribed" and "unsubscribed" types). The following rules apply to outbound routing of the stanza as well as changes to the user's roster. (These rules are described from the perspective of the user, not the contact. In addition, "S.N." stands for SHOULD NOT.) A.2.1. Subscribe Table 2: Processing of outbound "subscribe" stanzas +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | ROUTE? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | MUST [1] | "None + Pending Out" | | "None + Pending Out" | MUST | no state change | | "None + Pending In" | MUST [1] | "None + Pending Out+In" | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | no state change | | "To" | MUST | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | no state change | | "From" | MUST [1] | "From + Pending Out" | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST | no state change | | "Both" | MUST | no state change | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ [1] A state change to "pending out" includes setting the 'ask' flag to a value of "subscribe" in the user's roster. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 97] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 A.2.2. Unsubscribe Table 3: Processing of outbound "unsubscribe" stanzas +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | ROUTE? | NEW STATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | MUST | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | MUST | "None" | | "None + Pending In" | MUST | no state change | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | "None + Pending In" | | "To" | MUST | "None" | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | "None + Pending In" | | "From" | MUST | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST | "From" | | "Both" | MUST | "From" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ A.2.3. Subscribed Table 4: Processing of outbound "subscribed" stanzas +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | ROUTE? | NEW STATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change [1] | | "None + Pending Out" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending In" | MUST | "From" | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | "From + Pending Out" | | "To" | S.N. | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | "Both" | | "From" | S.N. | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | S.N. | no state change | | "Both" | S.N. | no state change | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [1] A server MAY note the fact that the user wishes to allow the contact to be subscribed to the user's presence and automatically approve any subscription request received from the contact; if it does so, upon the receiving presence stanza of type "subscribed" from the user's client it MUST add a roster item for the contact to the user's roster and set the 'ask' flag to a value of "subscribed". However, the user's server still SHOULD NOT route the presence stanza of type "subscribed" to the contact. This optional functionality applies only if the contact is not already in the user's roster or if the contact is in the user's roster with a state of "None" (not including a state of "None + Pending Out"). Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 98] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 A.2.4. Unsubscribed Table 5: Processing of outbound "unsubscribed" stanzas +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | ROUTE? | NEW STATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending In" | MUST | "None" | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | "None + Pending Out" | | "To" | S.N. | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | "To" | | "From" | MUST | "None" | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST | "None + Pending Out" | | "Both" | MUST | "To" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ A.3. Server Processing of Inbound Presence Subscription Stanzas Inbound presence subscription stanzas request a subscription-related action from the user (via the "subscribe" type), inform the user of subscription-related actions taken by the contact (via the "unsubscribe" type), or enable the user to manage the contact's access to the user's presence information (via the "subscribed" and "unsubscribed" types). The following rules apply to delivery of the inbound stanza as well as changes to the user's roster. (These rules for server processing of inbound presence subscription stanzas are described from the perspective of the user, not the contact. In addition, "S.N." stands for SHOULD NOT.) Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 99] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 A.3.1. Subscribe Table 6: Processing of inbound "subscribe" stanzas +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | DELIVER? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | MUST [1] | "None + Pending In" | | "None + Pending Out" | MUST | "None + Pending Out+In" | | "None + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out+In" | S.N. | no state change | | "To" | MUST | "To + Pending In" | | "To + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "From" | S.N. [2] | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | S.N. [2] | no state change | | "Both" | S.N. [2] | no state change | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ [1] If the user previously sent presence of type "subscribed" as described under Appendix A.2.3, then the server MAY auto-reply with "subscribed" and change the state to "From" rather than "None + Pending In". [2] Server SHOULD auto-reply with "subscribed". A.3.2. Unsubscribe When the user's server receives a presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" for the user from the contact, if the stanza results in a subscription state change from the user's perspective then the user's server MUST change the state, MUST deliver the presence stanza from the contact to the user, and SHOULD auto-reply by sending a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" to the contact on behalf of the user. Otherwise the user's server MUST NOT change the state and (because there is no state change) SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza. These rules are summarized in the following table. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 100] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Table 7: Processing of inbound "unsubscribe" stanzas +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | DELIVER? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending In" | MUST [1] | "None" | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST [1] | "None + Pending Out" | | "To" | S.N. | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | MUST [1] | "To" | | "From" | MUST [1] | "None" | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST [1] | "None + Pending Out | | "Both" | MUST [1] | "To" | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ [1] Server SHOULD auto-reply with "unsubscribed". A.3.3. Subscribed When the user's server receives a presence stanza of type "subscribed" for the user from the contact, if there is no pending outbound request for access to the contact's presence information, then it MUST NOT change the subscription state and (because there is no state change) SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza to the user. If there is a pending outbound request for access to the contact's presence information and the inbound presence stanza of type "subscribed" results in a subscription state change, then the user's server MUST change the subscription state and MUST deliver the stanza to the user. If the user already is subscribed to the contact's presence information, the inbound presence stanza of type "subscribed" does not result in a subscription state change; therefore the user's server MUST NOT change the subscription state and (because there is no state change) SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza to the user. These rules are summarized in the following table. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 101] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Table 8: Processing of inbound "subscribed" stanzas +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | DELIVER? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | MUST | "To" | | "None + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | "To + Pending In" | | "To" | S.N. | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "From" | S.N. | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST | "Both" | | "Both" | S.N. | no state change | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ A.3.4. Unsubscribed When the user's server receives a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" for the user from the contact, if there is a pending outbound request for access to the contact's presence information or if the user currently is subscribed to the contact's presence information, then the user's server MUST change the subscription state and MUST deliver the stanza to the user. Otherwise, the user's server MUST NOT change the subscription state and (because there is no state change) SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza. These rules are summarized in the following table. Table 9: Processing of inbound "unsubscribed" stanzas +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | DELIVER? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | MUST | "None" | | "None + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | "None + Pending In" | | "To" | MUST | "None" | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | "None + Pending In" | | "From" | S.N. | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST | "From" | | "Both" | MUST | "From" | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 102] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Appendix B. Blocking Communication Sections 2.3.5 and 5.4.10 of [IMP-REQS] require that a compliant instant messaging and presence technology needs to enable a user to block communications from selected users. Protocols for doing so are specified in [XEP-0016] and [XEP-0191]. Appendix C. vCards Sections 3.1.3 and 4.1.4 of [IMP-REQS] require that it be possible to retrieve out-of-band contact information for other users (e.g., telephone number or email address). An XML representation of the vCard specification defined in RFC 2426 [VCARD] is in common use within the XMPP community to provide such information but is out of scope for this specification (documentation of this protocol is contained in [XEP-0054]). Appendix D. XML Schemas Because validation of XML streams and stanzas is optional, the following XML schemas are provided for descriptive purposes only. These schemas are not normative. The following schemas formally define various XML namespaces used in the core XMPP protocols, in conformance with [XML-SCHEMA]. For schemas defining namespaces for XML streams and other core aspects of XMPP, refer to [XMPP-CORE]. D.1. jabber:client Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 103] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 104] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 105] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 106] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 107] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 D.2. jabber:server Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 108] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 109] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 110] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 111] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 D.3. jabber:iq:roster Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 113] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 Appendix E. Differences From RFC 3921 Based on consensus derived from implementation and deployment experience as well as formal interoperability testing, the following substantive modifications were made from [RFC3921]. o The protocol for session establishment was determined to be unnecessary and therefore the content previously defined in Section 3 of RFC 3921 was removed. However, for the sake of backward-compatibility server implementations are encouraged to advertise support for the feature, even though session establishment is a "no-op". o In order to more seamlessly repair lack of synchronization in subscription states between rosters located at different servers, clarified and modified error handling related to presence subscription requests, presence probes and presence notifications. o Changed the 'from' address for presence probes so that it is the bare JID, not the full JID. o Adjusted and clarified stanza delivery rules based on implementation and deployment experience. o Explicitly specified that a server is allowed to deliver a message stanza of type "normal" or "chat" to all resources if it has a method for allowing resources to opt in to such behavior. o Allowed a server to use its own algorithm for determining the "most available" resource for the purpose of message delivery, but mentioned the recommended algorithm from RFC 3921 (based on presence priority) as one possible algorithm. o Added optional versioning of roster information to save bandwidth in cases where the roster has not changed (or has changed very little) between sessions; the relevant protocol interactions were originally described in [XEP-0237]. o Added optional server support for pre-approved presence subscriptions via presence stanzas of type "subscribed" and the optional "subscribed" value for the 'ask' flag. o Added optional 'parent' attribute to element o Moved the protocol for communications blocking (specified in Section 10 of RFC 3921) back to [XEP-0016], from which it was originally taken. o Recommended returning presence unavailable in response to probes. o Clarified handling of presence probes sent to full JIDs. o Explicitly specified that the default value for the presence element is zero. o Removed recommendation to support the "_im" and "_pres" SRV records. Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 114] Internet-Draft XMPP IM August 2010 In addition, numerous changes of an editorial nature were made in order to more fully specify and clearly explain the protocols. Appendix F. Copying Conditions Regarding this entire document or any portion of it, the author makes no guarantees and is not responsible for any damage resulting from its use. The author grants irrevocable permission to anyone to use, modify, and distribute it in any way that does not diminish the rights of anyone else to use, modify, and distribute it, provided that redistributed derivative works do not contain misleading author or version information. Derivative works need not be licensed under similar terms. Author's Address Peter Saint-Andre Cisco 1899 Wyknoop Street, Suite 600 Denver, CO 80202 USA Phone: +1-303-308-3282 Email: psaintan@cisco.com Saint-Andre Expires February 10, 2011 [Page 115]