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Camarillo 4 Intended status: Standards Track Ericsson 5 Expires: June 18, 2008 D. Morgan 6 Fidelity Investments 7 R. Even 8 Polycom 9 December 16, 2007 11 Conference Information Data Model for Centralized Conferencing (XCON) 12 draft-ietf-xcon-common-data-model-08.txt 14 Status of this Memo 16 By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any 17 applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware 18 have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes 19 aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. 21 Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering 22 Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that 23 other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- 24 Drafts. 26 Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months 27 and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any 28 time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference 29 material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." 31 The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at 32 http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. 34 The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at 35 http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. 37 This Internet-Draft will expire on June 18, 2008. 39 Copyright Notice 41 Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007). 43 Abstract 45 This document defines an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based 46 conference information data model for centralized conferencing 47 (XCON). A conference information data model is designed to convey 48 information about the conference and about participation in the 49 conference. The conference information data model defined in this 50 document constitutes an extension of the data format specified in the 51 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference State. 53 Table of Contents 55 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 56 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 57 3. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 58 3.1. Data Model Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 59 3.2. Data Model Namespace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 60 3.3. The Conference Object Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 61 3.3.1. Conference URI Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 62 3.4. Data Model Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 63 4. Data Model Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 64 4.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 65 4.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 66 4.2.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 67 4.2.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 68 4.2.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 69 4.2.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 70 4.2.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 71 4.2.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 72 4.2.7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 73 4.2.8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 74 4.2.9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 75 4.2.10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 76 4.2.11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 77 4.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 78 4.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 79 4.4.1. . . . . . . . . 19 80 4.4.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 81 4.4.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 82 4.4.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 83 4.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 84 4.5.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 85 4.5.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 86 4.5.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 87 4.5.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 88 4.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 89 4.6.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 90 4.6.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 91 4.6.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 92 4.6.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 93 4.6.5. and Its Sub-elements . . . . . . . . . . 24 94 4.6.5.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 95 4.6.5.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 96 4.6.5.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 97 4.6.5.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 98 4.6.5.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 99 4.6.5.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 100 4.6.5.7. . . . . . . . . . 26 101 4.6.5.8. . . . . . . . . . 26 102 4.6.5.9. . . . . . . . . . 27 103 4.6.5.10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 104 4.7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 105 4.8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 106 5. RELAX NG Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 107 6. XML Schema Extensibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 108 7. XML Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 109 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 110 8.1. Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 111 8.2. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 112 8.3. Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 113 9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 114 9.1. Relax NG Schema Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 115 9.2. XML Namespace Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 116 9.3. Conference Object Identifier Registration . . . . . . . . 47 117 9.4. Conference User Identifier Registration . . . . . . . . . 48 118 10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 119 11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 120 11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 121 11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 122 Appendix A. Appendix A. Non-Normative RELAX NG Schema in XML 123 Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 124 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 125 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 72 127 1. Introduction 129 There is a core data set of conference information that is utilized 130 in any conference, independent of the specific conference media. 131 This core data set called the 'conference information data model' is 132 defined in this document using an Extensible Markup Language (XML)- 133 based. The conference information data model defined in this 134 document is logically represented by the conference object. 136 Conference objects are a fundamental concept in Centralized 137 Conferencing, as described in the Centralized Conferencing Framework 138 [I-D.ietf-xcon-framework]. A conference object contains data that 139 represents a conference during each of its various stages (e.g., 140 created/creation, reserved/reservation, active/activation, completed/ 141 completion). A conference object can be manipulated using a 142 conference control protocol at a conference server. The conference 143 object represents a particular instantiation of a conference 144 information data model. Consequently, conference objects follow the 145 XML format defined in this document. 147 A conference object contains the core information of a conference 148 (i.e., capabilities, membership, call control signaling, media, etc.) 149 and specifies who, and in which way that information can be 150 manipulated. 152 Figure 1 shows the logical functional elements of a conference server 153 as defined by the Centralized Conferencing Framework 154 [I-D.ietf-xcon-framework]. They are a Conference Control Server, a 155 Floor Control Server, a number of Foci, and a Notification Service. 156 A conference control protocol provides the interface between a 157 conference control client and the conference control server. A floor 158 control protocol (e.g., BFCP [RFC4582]) provides the interface 159 between a floor control client and the floor control server. A call 160 signaling protocol (e.g., SIP, H.323, Q.931, ISUP, etc.) provides the 161 interface between a call signaling client and a Focus. A 162 notification protocol (e.g., SIP-based event notifications [RFC3265]) 163 provides the interface between the conferencing client and the 164 Notification Service. Within a conference, the conference control 165 server, floor control server, and focus can modify the information in 166 the conference object. 168 ............................................................... 169 . Conferencing Server . 170 . +---------------------------------------------------+ . 171 . | C o n f e r e n c e o b j e c t | . 172 . +-+--------------------------------------------------+| . 173 . | C o n f e r e n c e o b j e c t || . 174 . +-+---------------------------------------------------+|| . 175 . | C o n f e r e n c e o b j e c t ||| . 176 . | +--------------------------------------------------+||| . 177 . | | Conference Information Data Model |||| . 178 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 179 . | | | Conference description (times, duration) | |||| . 180 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 181 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 182 . | | | Host information | |||| . 183 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 184 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 185 . | | | Conference state | |||| . 186 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 187 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 188 . | | | Floor information | |||| . 189 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 190 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 191 . | | | Membership (users, capacity) | |||| . 192 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 193 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 194 . | | | Sidebars, Etc. | |||| . 195 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 196 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 197 . | | | Etc. | |||| . 198 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||+ . 199 . | +--------------------------------------------------+|+ . 200 . +----^------------------^-------------^--------|------+ . 201 . | | | | . 202 . +------v-------+ +--------v-----+ +-----v-+ +----v-------+ . 203 . | Conference | | Floor | | | | | . 204 . | Control | | Control | |Foci | |Notification| . 205 . | Server | | Server | | | |Service | . 206 . +-----^--------+ +---^----------+ +-^-----+ +------------+ . 207 ........|..............|..............|..........|............. 208 |Conference |Binary Floor |Call |Notification 209 |Control |Control |Signaling |Protocol 210 |Protocol |Protocol |Protocol | 211 ........v..............v..............v..........v............. 212 . C o n f e r e n c i n g C l i e n t . 213 ............................................................... 215 Figure 1: Conference Server Architecture 217 The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference 218 State, specified in [RFC4575], already defines a data format for 219 conferences. However, that model is SIP specific and lacks elements 220 related to some of the functionality defined by the Centralized 221 Conferencing Framework [I-D.ietf-xcon-framework] (e.g., floor 222 control). The data model defined in this document constitutes a 223 superset of the data format defined in [RFC4575]. The result is a 224 data format that supports more call signaling protocols besides SIP 225 and that covers all the functionality defined in the Centralized 226 Conferencing Framework [I-D.ietf-xcon-framework]. 228 2. Terminology 230 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", 231 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 232 document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. 234 This document uses the terminology defined in the Centralized 235 Conferencing Framework [I-D.ietf-xcon-framework], the SIPPING 236 conferencing framework [RFC4353] and the BFCP (Binary Floor Control 237 Protocol) specification [RFC4582]. Readers of this document should 238 be familiar with the terminology used in those documents. 240 3. Overview 242 The data model specified in this document is the result of extending 243 the data format defined in [RFC4575] with new elements. Examples of 244 such extensions include scheduling elements, media control elements, 245 floor control elements, non-SIP URIs, and addition of localization 246 extensions to text elements. This data model can be used by 247 conference servers providing different types of basic conferences. 248 It is expected that this data model can be further extended with new 249 elements in the future in order to implement additional advanced 250 features. 252 3.1. Data Model Format 254 A conference object document is an XML [W3C.REC-xml-20001006] 255 document that MUST be well formed and SHOULD be valid. Conference 256 object documents MUST be based on XML 1.0 and SHOULD be encoded using 257 UTF-8. 259 3.2. Data Model Namespace 261 This specification defines a new namespace specification for 262 identifying the elements defined in the data model. This namespace 263 is as follows: 265 urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xcon-conference-info 267 3.3. The Conference Object Identifier 269 The conference object identifier (XCON-URI) can be viewed as a key to 270 accessing a specific conference object. It can be used, for 271 instance, by the conference control protocol to access, manipulate 272 and delete a conference object. A conference object identifier is 273 provided to the conferencing client by the conference notification 274 service or through out-of-band mechanisms (e.g. E-Mail). 276 A conferencing system may maintain a relationship between the 277 conference object identifiers and the identifiers associated with 278 each of the complementary centralized conferencing protocols (e.g., 279 call signaling protocols, BFCP, etc.). To facilitate the maintenance 280 of these relationships, the conference object identifier acts as a 281 top level identifier within the conferencing system for the purpose 282 of identifying the interfaces for these other protocols. This 283 implicit binding provides a structured mapping of the various 284 protocols with the associated conference object Identifier. Figure 2 285 illustrates the relationship between the identifiers used for the 286 protocols and the general conference object identifier (XCON-URI). 288 +--------------------------+ 289 | Conference | 290 | Object | 291 | Identifier | 292 +--------------------------+ 293 | xcon:Ji092i@example.com | 294 +------+-------------------+ 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 +-----------------+---------------+ 299 | | 300 +-----------+-----------+ +----------+---------+ 301 | CSP Conference IDs | |BFCP 'Conference ID'| 302 +-----------------------+ +--------------------+ 303 | h323:i092@example.com | | i092 | 304 | tel:+44(0)2920930033 | +----------+---------+ 305 | sip:i092@example.com | | 306 +-----------------------+ +-------+--------+ 307 | BFCP 'Floor ID'| 308 +----------------+ 309 | 543 | 310 | 236 | 311 +----------------+ 313 Figure 2: Conference Object Mapping 315 In Figure 2, the conference object identifier acts as the top level 316 key in the identification process. The call signaling protocols have 317 an associated conference user identifier, often represented in the 318 form of URIs. The binary floor control protocol, as defined in 319 [RFC4582], defines the 'conference ID' identifier which represents a 320 conference instance within floor control. When created within the 321 conferencing system, the 'conference ID' has a 1:1 mapping to the 322 unique conference object Identifier(XCON-URI). Operations associated 323 with the conference control protocols are directly associated with 324 the conference object, thus the primary identifier associated with 325 these protocols is the conference object identifier(XCON-URI). The 326 mappings between additional protocols/interface is not strictly 1:1 327 and does allow for multiple occurrences. For example, multiple call 328 signaling protocols will each have a representation that is 329 implicitly linked to the top level conference object identifier e.g. 330 H323 and SIP URIs that represent a conference instance. It should be 331 noted that a conferencing system is free to structure such 332 relationships as required and this information is just included as a 333 guideline that can be used. 335 Further elements can be added to the tree representation in Figure 2 336 to enable a complete representation of a conference instance within a 337 conferencing system. 339 3.3.1. Conference URI Definition 341 XCON-URI = "xcon" ":" [conf-object-id "@"] host [ ":" port ] 343 conf-object-id = 1*( unreserved / "+" / "=" / "/" ) 345 host, port, and unreserved are defined in RFC3986[RFC3986] 347 3.4. Data Model Structure 349 The information in this data model is structured in the following 350 manner. All the information related to a conference is contained in 351 a element. The element contains 352 the following child elements: 354 o The element describes the conference as a 355 whole. It has, for instance, information about the URI of the 356 conference, maximum users allowed in the conference, media 357 available in the conference, or the time the conference will 358 start. 359 o The element contains information about the entity 360 hosting the conference (e.g., its URI). 361 o The element informs the subscribers about the 362 changes in the overall conference information. 363 o The element contains information about the 364 status of the different floors in the conference. 365 o The element describes the membership information as a 366 whole. The element contains a set of child 367 elements, each describing a single participant in the conference. 368 o If a participant in the main conference joins a sidebar, a new 369 element is created in the conference referenced from the 370 element or under one of the 371 elements. 373 Note that some of the elements described above such , , , or are not defined in the data model but are defined in the data 376 format of [RFC4575]. We describe them here because they are part of 377 the basic structure of the data model. 379 4. Data Model Definition 381 The following non-normative diagram shows the structure of conference 382 object documents. The operator "!" preceding an element indicates 383 that the element is mandatory in the data model. The operator "*" 384 following an element indicates that the element is introduced and 385 defined in this document. That is, elements without a "*" have 386 already been defined in [RFC4575]. 388 ! 389 | 390 |--! 391 | |--* 392 | |-- 393 | |-- 394 | |-- 395 | |-- 396 | |--* 397 | |--* 398 | | |--* 399 | | | |--* 400 | | | |--* 401 | | | |--* 402 | | | |--* 403 | | | |--* 404 | | | |--* 405 | | | |--* 406 | | | |--* 407 | | ... 408 | |-- 409 | | |-- 410 | | | |-- 411 | | | |-- 412 | | | |-- 413 | | | |--* 414 | | ... 415 | |-- 416 | | |-- 417 | | | |-- 418 | | | |-- 419 | | | |-- 420 | | ... 421 | |-- 422 | | ... 423 | |-- 424 | | |--! 425 | | | |-- 426 | | | |-- 427 | | | |-- 428 | | | |--* 429 | | | |--* 430 | | | | |--* 431 | | | | |--* 432 | | | | ... 433 | | | |--* 434 | | | | |--* 435 | | | | |--* 436 | | | | ... 437 | | |-- 438 | | | |-- 439 | | | |-- 440 | | | |-- 441 | | | |--* 442 | | | |--* 443 | | | | |--* 444 | | | | |--* 445 | | | | ... 446 | | | |--* 447 | | | | |--* 448 | | | | |--* 449 | | | | ... 450 | | ... 451 | 452 |-- 453 | |-- 454 | |-- 455 | |-- 456 | | |-- 457 | | | |-- 458 | | | |-- 459 | ... 460 |-- 461 | |--* 462 | |-- 463 | |-- 464 | |-- 465 | 466 |--* 467 | |--* 468 | |--* 469 | |--* 470 | |--* 471 | | |--* 472 | | | |--!* 473 | | | |--!* 474 | | | |--* 475 | | | |--* 476 | | | ... 477 | | ... 478 | 479 |--! 480 | |--* 481 | |--* 482 | |--* 483 | | |--* 484 | | | 485 | | |--* 486 | | | |--* 487 | | | | |-- * 488 | | 489 | |--* 490 | | 491 | |-- 492 | | |-- 493 | | |-- 494 | | |--* 495 | | |-- 496 | | | | 497 | | | ... 498 | | |-- 499 | | |-- 500 | | |--* 501 | | |--* 502 | | |--* 503 | | |--! 504 | | | |-- 505 | | | |-- 506 | | | |-- 507 | | | |-- 508 | | | |-- 509 | | | |-- 510 | | | |-- 511 | | | |-- 512 | | | | |-- 513 | | | | |-- 514 | | | | |--