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Run idnits with the --verbose option for more detailed information about the items above. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 XCON O. Novo 3 Internet-Draft G. Camarillo 4 Intended status: Standards Track Ericsson 5 Expires: December 12, 2008 D. Morgan 6 Fidelity Investments 7 R. Even 8 Polycom 9 June 10, 2008 11 Conference Information Data Model for Centralized Conferencing (XCON) 12 draft-ietf-xcon-common-data-model-11.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 December 12, 2008. 39 Abstract 41 This document defines an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based 42 conference information data model for centralized conferencing 43 (XCON). A conference information data model is designed to convey 44 information about the conference and about participation in the 45 conference. The conference information data model defined in this 46 document constitutes an extension of the data format specified in the 47 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference State. 49 Table of Contents 51 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 52 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 53 3. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 54 3.1. Data Model Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 55 3.2. Data Model Namespace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 56 3.3. The Conference Object Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 57 3.3.1. Conference Object URI Definition . . . . . . . . . . . 9 58 3.4. Data Model Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 59 4. Data Model Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 60 4.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 61 4.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 62 4.2.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 63 4.2.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 64 4.2.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 65 4.2.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 66 4.2.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 67 4.2.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 68 4.2.7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 69 4.2.8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 70 4.2.9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 71 4.2.10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 72 4.2.11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 73 4.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 74 4.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 75 4.4.1. . . . . . . . . 19 76 4.4.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 77 4.4.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 78 4.4.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 79 4.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 80 4.5.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 81 4.5.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 82 4.5.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 83 4.5.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 84 4.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 85 4.6.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 86 4.6.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 87 4.6.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 88 4.6.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 89 4.6.5. and Its Sub-elements . . . . . . . . . . 24 90 4.6.5.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 91 4.6.5.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 92 4.6.5.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 93 4.6.5.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 94 4.6.5.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 95 4.6.5.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 96 4.6.5.7. . . . . . . . . . 26 97 4.6.5.8. . . . . . . . . . 26 98 4.6.5.9. . . . . . . . . . 27 99 4.6.5.10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 100 4.7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 101 4.8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 102 5. RELAX NG Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 103 6. XML Schema Extensibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 104 7. XML Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 105 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 106 8.1. Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 107 8.2. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 108 8.3. Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 109 9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 110 9.1. Relax NG Schema Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 111 9.2. XML Namespace Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 112 9.3. Conference Object Identifier Registration . . . . . . . . 49 113 9.4. Conference User Identifier Registration . . . . . . . . . 50 114 10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 115 11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 116 11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 117 11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 118 Appendix A. Non-Normative RELAX NG Schema in XML Syntax . . . . . 52 119 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 120 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 75 122 1. Introduction 124 There is a core data set of conference information that is utilized 125 in any conference, independent of the specific conference media. 126 This core data set called the 'conference information data model' is 127 defined in this document using an Extensible Markup Language (XML)- 128 based. The conference information data model defined in this 129 document is logically represented by the conference object. 131 Conference objects are a fundamental concept in Centralized 132 Conferencing, as described in the Centralized Conferencing Framework 133 [RFC5239]. A conference object contains data that represents a 134 conference during each of its various stages (e.g., created/creation, 135 reserved/reservation, active/activation, completed/completion). A 136 conference object can be manipulated using a conference control 137 protocol at a conference server. The conference object represents a 138 particular instantiation of a conference information data model. 139 Consequently, conference objects follow the XML format defined in 140 this document. 142 A conference object contains the core information of a conference 143 (i.e., capabilities, membership, call control signaling, media, etc.) 144 and specifies who, and in which way that information can be 145 manipulated. 147 Figure 1 shows the logical functional elements of a conference server 148 as defined by the Centralized Conferencing Framework [RFC5239]. They 149 are a Conference Control Server, a Floor Control Server, a number of 150 Foci, and a Notification Service. A conference control protocol 151 provides the interface between a conference control client and the 152 conference control server. A floor control protocol (e.g., BFCP 153 [RFC4582]) provides the interface between a floor control client and 154 the floor control server. A call signaling protocol (e.g., SIP, 155 H.323, Q.931, ISUP, etc.) provides the interface between a call 156 signaling client and a Focus. A notification protocol (e.g., SIP- 157 based event notifications [RFC3265]) provides the interface between 158 the conferencing client and the Notification Service. Within a 159 conference, the conference control server, floor control server, and 160 focus can modify the information in the conference object. 162 ............................................................... 163 . Conferencing Server . 164 . +---------------------------------------------------+ . 165 . | C o n f e r e n c e o b j e c t | . 166 . +-+--------------------------------------------------+| . 167 . | C o n f e r e n c e o b j e c t || . 168 . +-+---------------------------------------------------+|| . 169 . | C o n f e r e n c e o b j e c t ||| . 170 . | +--------------------------------------------------+||| . 171 . | | Conference Information Data Model |||| . 172 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 173 . | | | Conference description (times, duration) | |||| . 174 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 175 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 176 . | | | Host information | |||| . 177 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 178 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 179 . | | | Conference state | |||| . 180 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 181 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 182 . | | | Floor information | |||| . 183 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 184 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 185 . | | | Membership (users, capacity) | |||| . 186 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 187 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 188 . | | | Sidebars, Etc. | |||| . 189 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 190 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||| . 191 . | | | Etc. | |||| . 192 . | | +----------------------------------------------+ |||+ . 193 . | +--------------------------------------------------+|+ . 194 . +----^------------------^-------------^--------|------+ . 195 . | | | | . 196 . +------v-------+ +--------v-----+ +-----v-+ +----v-------+ . 197 . | Conference | | Floor | | | | | . 198 . | Control | | Control | |Foci | |Notification| . 199 . | Server | | Server | | | |Service | . 200 . +-----^--------+ +---^----------+ +-^-----+ +------------+ . 201 ........|..............|..............|..........|............. 202 |Conference |Floor |Call |Notification 203 |Control |Control |Signaling |Protocol 204 |Protocol |Protocol |Protocol | 205 ........v..............v..............v..........v............. 206 . C o n f e r e n c i n g C l i e n t . 207 ............................................................... 209 Figure 1: Conference Server Architecture 211 The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference 212 State, specified in [RFC4575], already defines a data format for 213 conferences. However, that model is SIP specific and lacks elements 214 related to some of the functionality defined by the Centralized 215 Conferencing Framework [RFC5239] (e.g., floor control). The data 216 model defined in this document constitutes a superset of the data 217 format defined in [RFC4575]. The result is a data format that 218 supports more call signaling protocols besides SIP and that covers 219 all the functionality defined in the Centralized Conferencing 220 Framework [RFC5239]. 222 2. Terminology 224 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", 225 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 226 document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. 228 This document uses the terminology defined in the Centralized 229 Conferencing Framework [RFC5239], the SIPPING conferencing framework 230 [RFC4353] and the BFCP (Binary Floor Control Protocol) specification 231 [RFC4582]. Readers of this document should be familiar with the 232 terminology used in those documents. 234 3. Overview 236 The data model specified in this document is the result of extending 237 the data format defined in [RFC4575] with new elements. Examples of 238 such extensions include scheduling elements, media control elements, 239 floor control elements, non-SIP URIs, and addition of localization 240 extensions to text elements. This data model can be used by 241 conference servers providing different types of basic conferences. 242 It is expected that this data model can be further extended with new 243 elements in the future in order to implement additional advanced 244 features. 246 3.1. Data Model Format 248 A conference object document is an XML [W3C.REC-xml-20001006] 249 document that MUST be well formed and SHOULD be valid. Conference 250 object documents MUST be based on XML 1.0 and SHOULD be encoded using 251 UTF-8. 253 3.2. Data Model Namespace 255 This specification defines a new namespace specification for 256 identifying the elements defined in the data model. This namespace 257 is as follows: 259 urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xcon-conference-info 261 3.3. The Conference Object Identifier 263 The conference object identifier (XCON-URI) can be viewed as a key to 264 accessing a specific conference object. It can be used, for 265 instance, by the conference control protocol to access, manipulate 266 and delete a conference object. A conference object identifier is 267 provided to the conferencing client by the conference notification 268 service or through out-of-band mechanisms (e.g. E-Mail). 270 A conferencing system may maintain a relationship between the 271 conference object identifiers and the identifiers associated with 272 each of the complementary centralized conferencing protocols (e.g., 273 call signaling protocols, BFCP, etc.). To facilitate the maintenance 274 of these relationships, the conference object identifier acts as a 275 top level identifier within the conferencing system for the purpose 276 of identifying the interfaces for these other protocols. This 277 implicit binding provides a structured mapping of the various 278 protocols with the associated conference object Identifier. Figure 2 279 illustrates the relationship between the identifiers used for the 280 protocols and the general conference object identifier (XCON-URI). 282 +--------------------------+ 283 | Conference | 284 | Object | 285 | Identifier | 286 +--------------------------+ 287 | xcon:Ji092i@example.com | 288 +------+-------------------+ 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 +-----------------+---------------+ 293 | | 294 +-----------+-----------+ +----------+---------+ 295 | CSP Conference IDs | |BFCP 'Conference ID'| 296 +-----------------------+ +--------------------+ 297 | h323:i092@example.com | | i092 | 298 | tel:+44(0)2920930033 | +----------+---------+ 299 | sip:i092@example.com | | 300 +-----------------------+ +-------+--------+ 301 | BFCP 'Floor ID'| 302 +----------------+ 303 | 543 | 304 | 236 | 305 +----------------+ 307 Figure 2: Conference Object Mapping 309 In Figure 2, the conference object identifier acts as the top level 310 key in the identification process. The call signaling protocols have 311 an associated conference user identifier, often represented in the 312 form of URIs. The binary floor control protocol, as defined in 313 [RFC4582], defines the 'conference ID' identifier which represents a 314 conference instance within floor control. When created within the 315 conferencing system, the 'conference ID' has a 1:1 mapping to the 316 unique conference object Identifier(XCON-URI). Operations associated 317 with the conference control protocols are directly associated with 318 the conference object, thus the primary identifier associated with 319 these protocols is the conference object identifier(XCON-URI). The 320 mappings between additional protocols/interface is not strictly 1:1 321 and does allow for multiple occurrences. For example, multiple call 322 signaling protocols will each have a representation that is 323 implicitly linked to the top level conference object identifier e.g. 324 H323 and SIP URIs that represent a conference instance. It should be 325 noted that a conferencing system is free to structure such 326 relationships as required and this information is just included as a 327 guideline that can be used. 329 Further elements can be added to the tree representation in Figure 2 330 to enable a complete representation of a conference instance within a 331 conferencing system. 333 3.3.1. Conference Object URI Definition 335 XCON-URI = "xcon" ":" [conf-object-id "@"] host [ ":" port ] 337 conf-object-id = 1*( unreserved / "+" / "=" / "/" ) 339 host, port, and unreserved are defined in RFC3986[RFC3986] 341 3.4. Data Model Structure 343 The information in this data model is structured in the following 344 manner. All the information related to a conference is contained in 345 a element. The element contains 346 the following child elements: 348 o The element describes the conference as a 349 whole. It has, for instance, information about the URI of the 350 conference, maximum users allowed in the conference, media 351 available in the conference, or the time the conference will 352 start. 353 o The element contains information about the entity 354 hosting the conference (e.g., its URI). 355 o The element informs the subscribers about the 356 changes in the overall conference information. 357 o The element contains information about the 358 status of the different floors in the conference. 359 o The element describes the membership information as a 360 whole. The element contains a set of child 361 elements, each describing a single participant in the conference. 362 o If a participant in the main conference joins a sidebar, a new 363 element is created in the conference referenced from the 364 element or under one of the 365 elements. 367 Note that some of the elements described above such , , , or are not defined in the data model but are defined in the data 370 format of [RFC4575]. We describe them here because they are part of 371 the basic structure of the data model. 373 4. Data Model Definition 375 The following non-normative diagram shows the structure of conference 376 object documents. The operator "!" preceding an element indicates 377 that the element is mandatory in the data model. The operator "*" 378 following an element indicates that the element is introduced and 379 defined in this document. That is, elements without a "*" have 380 already been defined in [RFC4575]. 382 ! 383 | 384 |--! 385 | |--* 386 | |-- 387 | |-- 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 | | | | |--