Network Working Group P. Saint-Andre
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Obsoletes: 7248 (if approved) August 11, 2015
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Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Presence
draft-ietf-stox-7248bis-05
Abstract
This document defines a bidirectional protocol mapping for the
exchange of presence information between the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
(XMPP). This document obsoletes RFC 7248.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Architectural Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Subscriptions to Presence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2. XMPP to SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.2.1. Establishing a Presence Subscription . . . . . . . . 6
5.2.2. Refreshing a Presence Subscription . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2.3. Cancelling a Presence Subscription . . . . . . . . . 10
5.3. SIP to XMPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.3.1. Establishing a Presence Subscription . . . . . . . . 12
5.3.2. Refreshing a Presence Subscription . . . . . . . . . 15
5.3.3. Cancelling a Presence Subscription . . . . . . . . . 16
6. Notifications of Presence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.2. XMPP to SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.3. SIP to XMPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7. Requests for Presence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7.1. XMPP to SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7.2. SIP to XMPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Appendix A. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1. Introduction
In order to help ensure interworking between presence systems that
conform to the instant message / presence requirements [RFC2779], it
is important to clearly define protocol mappings between such
systems. Within the IETF, work has proceeded on two presence
technologies:
o Various extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol ([RFC3261])
for presence, in particular [RFC3856]
o The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which
consists of a formalization of the core XML streaming protocols
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developed originally by the Jabber open-source community; the
relevant specifications are [RFC6120] for the XML streaming layer
and [RFC6121] for basic presence and instant-messaging extensions
One approach to helping ensure interworking between these protocols
is to map each protocol to the abstract semantics described in
[RFC3860]; however, apparently that approach has never been
implemented. The approach taken in this document is to directly map
semantics from one protocol to another (i.e., from SIP/SIMPLE (SIP
for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) to XMPP and
vice versa), because that is how existing systems solve the
interworking problem.
The architectural assumptions underlying such direct mappings are
provided in [RFC7247], including mapping of addresses and error
conditions. The mappings specified in this document cover basic
presence functionality. Mapping of more advanced functionality
(e.g., so-called "rich presence") is out of scope for this document.
This document obsoletes RFC 7248.
2. Intended Audience
The documents in this series are intended for use by software
developers who have an existing system based on one of these
technologies (e.g., SIP) and would like to enable communication from
that existing system to systems based on the other technology (e.g.,
XMPP). We assume that readers are familiar with the core
specifications for both SIP [RFC3261] and XMPP [RFC6120], with the
base document for this series [RFC7247], and with the following
presence-related specifications:
o "A Presence Event Package for the Session Initiation Protocol"
[RFC3856]
o "Presence Information Data Format (PIDF)" [RFC3863]
o "Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant
Messaging and Presence" [RFC6121]
o "SIP-Specific Event Notification" [RFC6665]
3. Terminology
A number of terms used here (user, contact, subscription,
notification, etc.) are explained in [RFC3261], [RFC3856], [RFC3857],
[RFC6120], and [RFC6121]. This document uses some, but not all, of
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the presence-related terms defined in the Model for Presence and
Instant Messaging [RFC2778].
In flow diagrams, SIP traffic is shown using arrows such as "***>",
whereas XMPP traffic is shown using arrows such as "...>". As in
[RFC7247], the terms "SIP to XMPP Gateway" and "XMPP to SIP Gateway"
are abbreviated as "S2X GW" and "X2S GW", respectively.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
[RFC2119].
4. Architectural Assumptions
The fundamental architectural assumptions underlying SIP-XMPP
interworking are described in [RFC7247].
In SIP, there are two ways that presence services are deployed on the
server side:
o Under the first model, described most fully in [RFC3857], a
dedicated SIP Presence Server handles subscriptions to the
presence event package. Instead of forwarding a SUBSCRIBE message
to the SIP user, the Presence Server and SIP User Agent would
interact via the 'presence.winfo' event package, to which the SIP
user would be subcribed. Therefore, when the Presence Server
receives a SUBSCRIBE to SIP user's presence, it sends a
'presence.winfo' NOTIFY message to the SIP User Agent. The SIP
User Agent would then authorize the subscription through some
interaction with the Presence Server (for instance using XCAP
[RFC4825]). Therefore, presence updates from the SIP User Agent
would not be sent as NOTIFY messages to the XMPP user but as
PUBLISH messages to the Presence Server, which would then generate
NOTIFY messages to all active subscribers.
o Under the second model, a SIP Presence Server acts in proxy mode
and merely passes through the SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY messages to the
SIP User Agent.
Because the behavior of the XMPP-to-SIP gateway is not changed by the
SIP architectural model that is used, the diagrams and protocol flows
in this document cover both options by labeling the end entity a "SIP
User Agent or Presence Server".
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5. Subscriptions to Presence Information
5.1. Overview
Both XMPP and presence-aware SIP systems enable entities (often, but
not necessarily, human users) to subscribe to the presence of other
entities. XMPP presence subscriptions are specified in [RFC6121].
Presence subscriptions using a SIP event package for presence are
specified in [RFC3856].
As described in [RFC6121], XMPP presence subscriptions are managed
using XMPP stanzas of type "subscribe", "subscribed",
"unsubscribe", and "unsubscribed". The main subscription states are:
o "none" (neither the user nor the contact is subscribed to the
other's presence information)
o "from" (the user has a subscription from the contact)
o "to" (the user has a subscription to the contact's presence
information)
o "both" (both user and contact are subscribed to each other's
presence information)
As described in [RFC3856], SIP presence subscriptions are managed
through the use of SIP SUBSCRIBE events sent from a SIP User Agent or
Presence Server to an intended recipient who is most generally
referenced by a Presence URI of the form but who
might be referenced by a SIP or SIPS ((Session Initiation Protocol
Secure) URI of the form or . In
practice, 'pres' URIs are rarely used, which is why the examples in
this document use 'sip' URIs.
The subscription models underlying XMPP and SIP differ mainly in the
fact that XMPP presence subscriptions are long-lived (indeed
permanent if not explicitly cancelled, so that a subscription need
never be refreshed during any given presence "session"), whereas SIP
presence subscriptions are short-lived (the default time-to-live of a
SIP presence subscription is 3600 seconds, as specified in
Section 6.4 of [RFC3856], so that a subscription needs to be
explicitly refreshed if it will have the appearance of being
permanent or even of lasting as long as the duration of a presence
"session"). This disparity has implications for the handling of
subscription cancellations in either direction and, from the SIP
side, subscription refreshes.
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5.2. XMPP to SIP
5.2.1. Establishing a Presence Subscription
The following diagram illustrates the protocol flow for establishing
a presence subscription from an XMPP user to a SIP contact, as
further explained in the text and examples after the diagram.
XMPP XMPP SIP SIP UA or
Client Server Proxy Presence Server
| + X2S GW | |
| | | |
| (F1) XMPP | | |
| subscribe | | |
|...........>| | |
| | (F2) SIP | |
| | SUBSCRIBE | |
| |***********>| |
| | | (F3) SIP |
| | | SUBSCRIBE |
| | |***********>|
| | | (F4) SIP |
| | | 200 OK |
| | |<***********|
| | (F5) SIP | |
| | 200 OK | |
| |<***********| |
| | | (F6) SIP |
| | | NOTIFY |
| | | (pending) |
| | |<***********|
| | (F7) SIP | |
| | NOTIFY | |
| |<***********| |
| | (F8) SIP | |
| | 200 OK | |
| |***********>| |
| | | (F9) SIP |
| | | 200 OK |
| | |***********>|
| | | (F10) SIP |
| | | NOTIFY |
| | | (active) |
| | |<***********|
| | (F11) SIP | |
| | NOTIFY | |
| |<***********| |
| | (F12) SIP | |
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| | 200 OK | |
| |***********>| |
| | | (F13) SIP |
| | | 200 OK |
| | |***********>|
| (F14) XMPP | | |
| subscribed | | |
|<...........| | |
| (F15) XMPP | | |
| presence | | |
|<...........| | |
| | | |
An XMPP user (e.g., juliet@example.com) initiates a subscription by
sending a subscription request to a SIP contact (e.g.,
romeo@example.net), and the contact either accepts or declines the
request. If the SIP contact accepts the request, the XMPP user will
have a subscription to the SIP contact's presence information until
(1) the XMPP user unsubscribes or (2) the SIP contact cancels the
subscription. The subscription request is encapsulated in a
stanza of type "subscribe":
Example 1: XMPP User Subscribes to SIP Contact (F1)
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Upon receiving such a stanza, the XMPP server to which
Juliet has connected needs to determine the identity of the
domainpart in the 'to' address, which it does by following the
procedures explained in Section 5 of [RFC7247]. If the domain is a
SIP domain, the XMPP server will hand off the stanza to
an associated XMPP-to-SIP gateway or connection manager that natively
communicates with presence-aware SIP proxies.
The XMPP-to-SIP gateway is then responsible for translating the XMPP
subscription request into a SIP SUBSCRIBE request addressed from the
XMPP user to the SIP contact:
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Example 2: SIP Transformation of XMPP Subscription Request (F2)
| SUBSCRIBE sip:romeo@example.net SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP x2s.example.com;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| To: ;tag=ffd2
| From: ;tag=j89d
| Call-ID: 5BCF940D-793D-43F8-8972-218F7F4EAA8C
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 1 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact:
| Accept: application/pidf+xml
| Expires: 3600
| Content-Length: 0
Once the SIP proxy has delivered the SIP SUBSCRIBE to the SIP User
Agent or Presence Server (F3, no example shown), the SIP User Agent
then would send a response indicating acceptance of the subscription
request:
Example 3: SIP User Accepts Subscription Request (F4)
| SIP/2.0 200 OK
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: ;tag=ffd2
| To: ;tag=j89d
| Call-ID: 5BCF940D-793D-43F8-8972-218F7F4EAA8C
| CSeq: 1 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact:
| Expires: 3600
| Content-Length: 0
In accordance with [RFC6665], the XMPP-to-SIP gateway MUST consider
the subscription state to be "neutral" until it receives a NOTIFY
message with a Subscription-State header [RFC6665] whose value is
"active". Therefore, the SIP User Agent or Presence Server SHOULD
immediately send such a NOTIFY message (see Section 6 below). In
case the XMPP-to-SIP gateway initially receives one or more NOTIFY
messages with Subscription-State header whose value is "pending"
(F6), it MUST respond to them on the SIP side, but not generate any
presence stanzas towards the XMPP User.
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Example 4: SIP User Agent or Presence Server Sends Presence
Notification (F10)
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.1 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP simple.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: ;tag=ffd2
| To: ;tag=j89d
| Call-ID: 5BCF940D-793D-43F8-8972-218F7F4EAA8C
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: active;expires=499
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 2 NOTIFY
| Contact:
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 193
|
|
|
|
|
| open
| away
|
|
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Upon receiving the first NOTIFY with a subscription state of active,
the XMPP-to-SIP gateway MUST return a 200 OK to the SIP User Agent or
Presence Server (F12, no example shown).
The XMPP-to-SIP gateway MUST also generate a stanza of
type "subscribed":
Example 5: XMPP User Receives Acknowledgement from SIP Contact (F14)
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As described in Section 6, the XMPP-to-SIP gateway MUST also generate
a presence notification addressed to the XMPP user:
Example 6: XMPP User Receives Presence Notification from SIP Contact
(F15)
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5.2.2. Refreshing a Presence Subscription
It is the responsibility of the XMPP-to-SIP gateway to set the value
of the Expires header and to periodically renew the subscription on
the SIMPLE side of the gateway so that the subscription appears to be
permanent to the XMPP user. For example, the XMPP-to-SIP gateway
SHOULD send a new SUBSCRIBE request to the SIP contact whenever the
XMPP user initiates a presence session with the XMPP server by
sending initial presence to its XMPP server. The XMPP-to-SIP gateway
also SHOULD send a new SUBSCRIBE request to the SIP contact whenever
the SIP presence subscription is scheduled to expire during the XMPP
user's active presence session.
The rules regarding SIP SUBSCRIBE requests for the purpose of
establishing and refreshing a presence subscription are provided in
[RFC6665]. Those rules also apply to XMPP-to-SIP gateways.
Furthermore, an XMPP-to-SIP gateway MUST consider the XMPP
subscription to be permanently cancelled (and so inform the XMPP
user) if it receives a SIP response of 403, 489, or 603. By
contrast, it is appropriate to consider a SIP response of 423 or 481
to be a transient error and to maintain the long-lived XMPP presence
subscription. [RFC6665] explains more detailed considerations about
the handling of SIP responses in relation to subscription requests
and refreshes.
Finally, see the security considerations section (Section 9) of this
document for important information and requirements regarding the
security implications of subscription refreshes.
5.2.3. Cancelling a Presence Subscription
The following diagram illustrates the protocol flow for cancelling an
XMPP user's presence subscription to a SIP contact, as further
explained in the text and examples after the diagram.
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XMPP XMPP SIP SIP UA or
Client Server Proxy Presence Server
| + X2S GW | |
| | | |
| (F16) XMPP | | |
|unsubscribe | | |
|...........>| | |
| | (F17) SIP | |
| | SUBSCRIBE | |
| | Expires: 0 | |
| |***********>| |
| | | (F18) SIP |
| | | SUBSCRIBE |
| | | Expires: 0 |
| | |***********>|
| | | (F19) SIP |
| | | 200 OK |
| | |<***********|
| | (F20) SIP | |
| | 200 OK | |
| |<***********| |
| (F21) XMPP | | |
|unsubcribed | | |
|<...........| | |
| | | |
At any time after subscribing, the XMPP user can unsubscribe from the
contact's presence. This is done by sending a stanza of
type "unsubscribe":
Example 7: XMPP User Unsubscribes from SIP Contact (F16)
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The XMPP-to-SIP gateway is responsible for translating the
unsubscribe command into a SIP SUBSCRIBE request with the Expires
header set to a value of zero:
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Example 8: SIP Transformation of XMPP Unsubscribe (F17)
| SUBSCRIBE sip:romeo@example.net SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| To: ;tag=ffd2
| From: ;tag=j89d
| Call-ID: 5BCF940D-793D-43F8-8972-218F7F4EAA8C
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 42 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact:
| Accept: application/pidf+xml
| Expires: 0
| Content-Length: 0
Upon receiving the SIP 200 OK acknowleding the unsubscribe, the XMPP-
to-SIP gateway SHOULD send a stanza of type
"unsubscribed" addressed to the XMPP user:
Example 9: XMPP User Receives Unsubscribed Notification (F21)
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5.3. SIP to XMPP
5.3.1. Establishing a Presence Subscription
The following diagram illustrates the protocol flow for establishing
a presence subscription from a SIP user to an XMPP contact, as
further explained in the text and examples after the diagram.
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SIP SIP XMPP XMPP
UA Proxy Server Client
| + S2X GW | |
| | | |
| (F22) SIP | | |
| SUBSCRIBE | | |
|**********>| | |
| | (F23) XMPP | |
| | subscribe | |
| |...........>| |
| | | (F24) XMPP|
| | | subscribe |
| | |..........>|
| | | (F25) XMPP|
| | | subscribed|
| | |<..........|
| | (F26) XMPP | |
| | subscribed | |
| |<...........| |
| (F27) SIP | | |
| 200 OK | | |
|<**********| | |
| | | |
A SIP User Agent initiates a subscription to a contact's presence
information by sending a SIP SUBSCRIBE request to the contact. The
following is an example of such a request:
Example 10: SIP User Subscribes to XMPP Contact (F22)
| SUBSCRIBE sip:juliet@example.com SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| To: ;tag=ur93
| From: ;tag=xfg9
| Call-ID: AA5A8BE5-CBB7-42B9-8181-6230012B1E11
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 1 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact:
| Accept: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 0
Notice that the Expires header was not included in the SUBSCRIBE
request; this means that the default value of 3600 (i.e., 3600
seconds = 1 hour) applies.
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Upon receiving the SUBSCRIBE, the SIP proxy needs to determine the
identity of the domain portion of the Request-URI or To header, which
it does by following the procedures explained in Section 5 of
[RFC7247]. If the domain is an XMPP domain, the SIP proxy will hand
off the SUBSCRIBE to an associated SIP-to-XMPP gateway or connection
manager that natively communicates with XMPP servers.
The SIP-to-XMPP gateway is then responsible for translating the
SUBSCRIBE into an XMPP subscription request addressed from the SIP
user to the XMPP contact:
Example 11: XMPP Transformation of SIP SUBSCRIBE (F23)
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In accordance with [RFC6121], the XMPP user's server MUST deliver the
presence subscription request to the XMPP user (or, if a subscription
already exists in the XMPP user's roster, the XMPP server SHOULD
auto-reply with a stanza of type 'subscribed').
If the XMPP user approves the subscription request, the XMPP server
then MUST return a stanza of type "subscribed" addressed
from the XMPP contact to the SIP user.
If the XMPP user declines the subscription request, the XMPP server
then MUST return a stanza of type "unsubscribed"
addressed from the XMPP contact to the SIP user. The SIP-to-XMPP
gateway then MUST transform that stanza into an empty SIP NOTIFY
message with a Subscription-State header [RFC6665] of "terminated"
and a reason of "rejected":
Example 12: Subscription Request Rejected
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.2 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: ;tag=ur93
| To: ;tag=xfg9
| Call-ID: AA5A8BE5-CBB7-42B9-8181-6230012B1E11
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: terminated;reason=rejected
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 2 NOTIFY
| Contact:
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 0
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5.3.2. Refreshing a Presence Subscription
For as long as a SIP user is online and interested in receiving
presence notifications from the XMPP contact, the user's SIP User
Agent is responsible for periodically refreshing the subscription by
sending an updated SUBSCRIBE request with an appropriate value for
the Expires header. In response, the presence-aware SIP-to-XMPP
gateway MUST send a SIP NOTIFY to the user agent (per [RFC6665]); if
the SIP-to-XMPP gateway has meaningful information about the
availability state of the XMPP user (e.g., obtained from the core
presence session in the XMPP server) then the NOTIFY MUST communicate
that information (e.g., by including a PIDF body [RFC3863] with the
relevant data), whereas if the SIP-to-XMPP gateway does not have
meaningful information about the availability state of the XMPP user
then the NOTIFY MUST be empty as allowed by [RFC6665].
Once the SIP user ends its presence session, it is the responsibility
of the presence-aware SIP-to-XMPP gateway to properly handle the
difference between short-lived SIP presence subscriptions and long-
lived XMPP presence subscriptions. The SIP-to-XMPP gateway has two
options when the SIP user's subscription expires:
o Cancel the subscription (i.e., treat it as temporary) and send an
XMPP stanza of type "unsubscribe" to the XMPP contact;
this honors the SIP semantic but will seem strange to the XMPP
contact (because it will appear that the SIP user has cancelled a
long-lived subscription).
o Maintain the subscription (i.e., treat it as long-lived) and:
1. send a SIP NOTIFY request to the SIP User Agent containing a
PIDF document specifying that the XMPP contact now has a basic
status of "closed", including a Subscription-State header
[RFC6665] of "terminated" with a reason of "timeout"
2. send an XMPP stanza of type "unavailable" to the
XMPP contact; this violates the letter of the SIP semantic but
will seem more natural to the XMPP contact
Which of these options a presence-aware SIP-to-XMPP gateway chooses
is up to the implementation.
If the implementation chooses the first option, the protocol
generated would be as follows:
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Example 13: XMPP Handling of Temporary Subscription Expiry
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If the implementation chooses the second option, the protocol
generated would be as follows:
Example 14: SIP Handling of Long-Lived Subscription Expiry
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.2 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP s2x.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: ;tag=ur93
| To: ;tag=xfg9
| Call-ID: AA5A8BE5-CBB7-42B9-8181-6230012B1E11
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: terminated;reason=timeout
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 6 NOTIFY
| Contact:
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 194
|
|
|
|
|
| closed
|
|
|
Example 15: XMPP Handling of Long-Lived Subscription Expiry
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5.3.3. Cancelling a Presence Subscription
At any time, the SIP User Agent can cancel the subscription by
sending a SUBSCRIBE message whose Expires header is set to a value of
zero ("0"):
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Example 16: SIP User Cancels Subscription
| SUBSCRIBE sip:juliet@example.com SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP simple.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| To: ;tag=ur93
| From: ;tag=xfg9
| Call-ID: AA5A8BE5-CBB7-42B9-8181-6230012B1E11
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 66 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact:
| Expires: 0
| Content-Length: 0
As above, upon receiving such a request, a presence-aware SIP-to-XMPP
gateway is responsible for doing one of the following:
o Cancel the subscription (i.e., treat it as temporary) and send an
XMPP stanza of type "unsubscribe" to the XMPP contact.
o Maintain the subscription (i.e., treat it as long-lived) and
1. send a SIP NOTIFY request to the SIP User Agent containing a
PIDF document specifying that the XMPP contact now has a basic
status of "closed", including a Subscription-State header
[RFC6665] of "terminated" with a reason of "timeout"
2. send an XMPP stanza of type "unavailable" to the
XMPP contact
6. Notifications of Presence Information
6.1. Overview
Both XMPP and presence-aware SIP systems enable entities (often, but
not necessarily, human users) to send presence notifications to other
entities. At its most basic, the term "presence" refers to
information about an entity's "on/off" availability for communication
on a network. Often, this basic concept is supplemented by
information that further specifies the entity's context or status
while available for communication; these availability states commonly
include "away" and "do not disturb". Some systems and protocols
extend the concepts of presence and availability even further and
refer to any relatively ephemeral information about an entity as a
kind of presence; categories of such "extended presence" include
geographical location (e.g., GPS coordinates), user mood (e.g.,
grumpy), user activity (e.g., walking), and ambient environment
(e.g., noisy). This document focuses on the "least common
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denominator" of network availability only, although future documents
might address broader notions of presence, including availability
states and extended presence.
[RFC6121] defines how XMPP stanzas can indicate
availability (via absence of a 'type' attribute) or lack of
availability (via a 'type' attribute with a value of "unavailable").
SIP presence using a SIP event package for presence is specified in
[RFC3856].
As described in [RFC6121], XMPP presence information about an entity
is communicated by means of an XML stanza sent over an
XML stream. This document assumes that such a stanza is
sent from an XMPP client to an XMPP server over an XML stream
negotiated between the client and the server, and that the client is
controlled by a human user. In general, XMPP presence is sent by the
user to the user's server and then broadcast to all entities who are
subscribed to the user's presence information.
As described in [RFC3856], presence information about an entity is
communicated by means of a SIP NOTIFY event sent from a SIP User
Agent to an intended recipient who is most generally referenced by a
Presence URI of the form but who might be
referenced by a SIP or SIPS URI of the form or
.
This document addresses basic presence or network availability only,
not the various extensions to SIP and XMPP for "rich presence" such
as [RFC4480], [XEP-0107], and [XEP-0108].
6.2. XMPP to SIP
When Juliet interacts with her XMPP client to modify her presence
information (or when her client automatically updates her presence
information, e.g., via an "auto-away" feature), her client generates
an XMPP stanza. The syntax of the stanza,
including required and optional elements and attributes, is defined
in [RFC6121]. The following is an example of such a stanza:
Example 17: XMPP User Sends Presence Notification
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Upon receiving such a stanza, the XMPP server to which Juliet has
connected broadcasts it to all subscribers who are authorized to
receive presence notifications from Juliet (this is similar to the
SIP NOTIFY method). For each subscriber, broadcasting the presence
notification involves either delivering it to a local recipient (if
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the hostname in the subscriber's address matches one of the hostnames
serviced by the XMPP server) or attempting to route it to the foreign
domain that services the hostname in the subscriber's address. Thus
the XMPP server needs to determine the identity of the domainpart in
the 'to' address, which it does by following the procedures discussed
in [RFC7247]. If the domain is a SIP domain, the XMPP server will
hand off the stanza to an associated XMPP-to-SIP gateway
or connection manager that natively communicates with presence-aware
SIP proxy (no example shown).
The XMPP-to-SIP gateway is then responsible for translating the XMPP
stanza into a SIP NOTIFY request and included PIDF
document from the XMPP user to the SIP contact.
Example 18: SIP Transformation of XMPP Presence Notification
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.2 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP x2s.example.com;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: ;tag=gh19
| To: ;tag=yt66
| Contact: ;gr=yn0cl4bnw0yr3vym
| Call-ID: 2B44E147-3B53-45E4-9D48-C051F3216D14
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: active;expires=599
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 2 NOTIFY
| Contact:
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 192
|
|
|
|
|
| open
| away
|
|
|
The mapping of XMPP syntax elements to SIP syntax elements MUST be as
shown in the following table. (Mappings for elements not mentioned
are undefined.)
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+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| XMPP Element or Attribute | SIP Header or PIDF Data |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| stanza | "Event: presence" (1) |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| XMPP resource identifer | tuple 'id' attribute (2) |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| from | From |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| id | CSeq (3) |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| to | To |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| type | basic status (4) (5) |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| xml:lang | Content-Language |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| | priority for tuple (6) |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| | no mapping (7) |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
| | |
+-----------------------------+---------------------------+
Table 1: Presence Syntax Mapping from XMPP to SIP
Note the following regarding these mappings:
1. Only an XMPP stanza that lacks a 'type' attribute or
whose 'type' attribute has a value of "unavailable" MUST be
mapped by an XMPP-to-SIP gateway to a SIP NOTIFY request, because
those are the only stanzas that represent
notifications.
2. The PIDF schema defines the tuple 'id' attribute as having a
datatype of "xs:ID"; because this datatype is more restrictive
than the "xs:string" datatype for XMPP resourceparts (in
particular, a number is not allowed as the first character of an
ID), it is RECOMMENDED to prepend the resourcepart with "ID-" or
some other alphabetic string when mapping from XMPP to SIP.
3. In practice, XMPP stanzas often do not include the
'id' attribute.
4. Because the lack of a 'type' attribute indicates that an XMPP
entity is available for communications, the XMPP-to-SIP gateway
MUST map that information to a PIDF basic status of "open".
Because a 'type' attribute with a value of "unavailable"
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indicates that an XMPP entity is not available communications,
the XMPP-to-SIP gateway MUST map that information to a PIDF
status of "closed".
5. When the XMPP-to-SIP gateway receives XMPP presence of type
"unavailable" from the XMPP contact, it MUST send a SIP NOTIFY
request to the SIP User Agent containing a PIDF document
specifying that the XMPP contact now has a basic status of
"closed", including a Subscription-State header [RFC6665] of
"terminated" with a reason of "timeout".
6. The value of the XMPP element is an integer between
-128 and +127, whereas the value of the PIDF element's
'priority' attribute is a decimal number from zero to one
inclusive, with a maximum of three decimal places. If the value
of the XMPP element is negative, an XMPP-to-SIP
gateway MUST NOT map the value. If an XMPP-to-SIP gateway maps
positive values, it SHOULD treat XMPP priority 0 as PIDF priority
0 and XMPP priority 127 as PIDF priority 1, mapping intermediate
values appropriately so that they are unique (e.g., XMPP priority
1 to PIDF priority 0.007, XMPP priority 2 to PIDF priority 0.015,
and so on up through mapping XMPP priority 126 to PIDF priority
0.992; note that this is an example only and that the exact
mapping is up to the implementation).
7. Some implementations support custom extensions to encapsulate
this information; however, there is no need to standardize a PIDF
extension for this purpose, because PIDF is already extensible
and thus the element can be included directly, qualified
by the 'jabber:client' namespace in the PIDF XML. The examples
in this document illustrate this usage, which is RECOMMENDED.
The most useful values are likely "away" and "dnd", although note
that the latter value merely means "busy" and does not imply that
a server or client ought to block incoming traffic while the user
is in that state.
8. Some implementations support custom extensions to encapsulate
detailed information about availability; however, there is no
need to standardize a PIDF extension for this purpose, because
PIDF is already extensible and thus the element
(qualified by the 'jabber:client' namespace) can be included
directly in the PIDF XML. The examples in this document
illustrate this usage, which is RECOMMENDED. The most useful
values are likely "away" and "dnd", although note that the latter
value merely means "busy" and does not imply that a server or
client ought to block incoming traffic while the user is in that
state. Naturally, an XMPP-to-SIP gateway can choose to translate
a custom extension into an established value of the
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element [RFC6121] or translate a element into a custom
extension that the XMPP-to-SIP gateway knows is supported by the
user agent of the intended recipient. Unfortunately, this
behavior does not guarantee that information will not be lost; to
help prevent information loss, an XMPP-to-SIP gateway ought to
include both the element and the custom extension if it
cannot suitably translate the custom value into a value.
6.3. SIP to XMPP
When Romeo changes his presence, his SIP User Agent generates a SIP
NOTIFY request for any active subscriptions. The syntax of the
NOTIFY request is defined in [RFC3856]. The following is an example
of such a request:
Example 19: SIP User Sends Presence Notification
| NOTIFY sip:192.0.2.1 SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP simple.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: ;tag=yt66
| To: ;tag=bi54
| Contact: ;gr=dr4hcr0st3lup4c
| Call-ID: C33C6C9D-0F4A-42F9-B95C-7CE86B526B5B
| Event: presence
| Subscription-State: active;expires=499
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 8 NOTIFY
| Contact:
| Content-Type: application/pidf+xml
| Content-Length: 193
|
|
|
|
|
| closed
|
|
|
Upon receiving the NOTIFY, the SIP proxy needs to determine the
identity of the domain portion of the Request-URI or To header, which
it does by following the procedures discussed in [RFC7247]. If the
domain is an XMPP domain, the SIP proxy will hand off the NOTIFY to
an associated SIP-to-XMPP gateway or connection manager that natively
communicates with XMPP servers.
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The SIP-to-XMPP gateway is then responsible for translating the
NOTIFY into an XMPP stanza addressed from the SIP user to
the XMPP contact:
Example 20: XMPP Transformation of SIP Presence Notification
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The mapping of SIP syntax elements to XMPP syntax elements MUST be as
shown in the following table. (Mappings for elements not mentioned
are undefined.)
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| SIP Header or PIDF Data | XMPP Element or Attribute |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| basic status | type (1) |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Content-Language | xml:lang |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| CSeq | id (2) |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| From | from |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| priority for tuple | (3) |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| To | to |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| | |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
| | (4) |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
Table 2: Presence Syntax Mapping from SIP to XMPP
Note the following regarding these mappings:
1. A PIDF basic status of "open" MUST be mapped to no 'type'
attribute, and a PIDF basic status of "closed" MUST be mapped to
a 'type' attribute whose value is "unavailable".
2. This mapping is OPTIONAL.
3. See the notes following Table 1 of this document regarding
mapping of presence priority.
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4. If a SIP implementation supports the element (qualified
by the 'jabber:client' namespace) as a PIDF extension for
availability status as described in the notes following Table 1
of this document, the SIP-to-XMPP gateway is responsible for
including that element in the XMPP presence notification.
7. Requests for Presence Information
Both SIP and XMPP provide methods for requesting presence information
about another entity.
7.1. XMPP to SIP
In XMPP, a request for presence information is completed by sending a
stanza of type "probe":
Example 21: XMPP Server Sends Presence Probe on Behalf of XMPP User
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Note: As described in [RFC6121], presence probes are used by XMPP
servers to request presence on behalf of XMPP users; XMPP clients are
discouraged from sending presence probes, because retrieving presence
is a service that servers provide.
A SIP-to-XMPP gateway would transform the presence probe into its SIP
equivalent, which is a SUBSCRIBE request with an Expires header value
of zero:
Example 22: SIP Transformation of XMPP Presence Probe
| SUBSCRIBE sip:romeo@example.net SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP x2s.example.com;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: ;tag=j89d
| Call-ID: 5BCF940D-793D-43F8-8972-218F7F4EAA8C
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 1 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact:
| Accept: application/pidf+xml
| Expires: 0
| Content-Length: 0
As described in [RFC3856], this cancels any subscription but causes a
NOTIFY to be sent to the subscriber, just as a presence probe does
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(the transformation rules for presence notifications have been
previously described in Section 6.2 of this document).
7.2. SIP to XMPP
In SIP, a request for presence information is effectively completed
by sending a SUBSCRIBE with an Expires header value of zero:
Example 23: SIP User Sends Presence Request
| SUBSCRIBE sip:juliet@example.com SIP/2.0
| Via: SIP/2.0/TCP simple.example.net;branch=z9hG4bKna998sk
| From: ;tag=yt66
| Call-ID: 717B1B84-F080-4F12-9F44-0EC1ADE767B9
| Event: presence
| Max-Forwards: 70
| CSeq: 1 SUBSCRIBE
| Contact:
| Expires: 0
| Content-Length: 0
When honoring the long-lived semantics of an XMPP presence
subscription, a presence-aware SIP-to-XMPP gateway MUST translate
such a SIP request into a stanza of type "probe" if it
does not already have presence information about the contact:
Example 24: XMPP Transformation of SIP Presence Request
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8. IANA Considerations
This document makes no requests of IANA.
9. Security Considerations
Detailed security considerations for presence protocols are given in
[RFC2779], for SIP-based presence in [RFC3856] (see also [RFC3261]),
and for XMPP-based presence in [RFC6121] (see also [RFC6120]).
The mismatch between long-lived XMPP presence subscriptions and
short-lived SIP presence subscriptions introduces the possibility of
an amplification attack launched from the XMPP network against a SIP
presence server (because each long-lived XMPP presence subscription
would typically result in multiple subscription refresh requests on
the SIP side of an XMPP-to-SIP gateway). Therefore, access to an
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XMPP-to-SIP gateway SHOULD be restricted in various ways; among other
things, only an XMPP service that carefully controls account
provisioning and provides effective methods for the administrators to
control the behavior of registered users ought to host an XMPP-to-SIP
gateway (e.g., not a service that offers open account registration)
and an XMPP-to-SIP gateway ought to be associated only with a single
domain or trust realm (e.g., an XMPP-to-SIP gateway hosted at
simple.example.com ought to allow only users within the example.com
domain to access the XMPP-to-SIP gateway, not users within
example.org, example.net, or any other domain). If a SIP presence
server receives communications through an XMPP-to-SIP gateway from
users who are not associated with a domain that is so related to the
hostname of the XMPP-to-SIP gateway, it SHOULD (based on local
service provisioning) refuse to service such users or refuse to
receive traffic from the XMPP-to-SIP gateway. As a futher check,
whenever an XMPP-to-SIP gateway seeks to refresh an XMPP user's long-
lived subscription to a SIP user's presence, it MUST first send an
XMPP stanza of type "probe" from the address of the XMPP-
to-SIP gateway to the "bare JID" (user@domain.tld) of the XMPP user,
to which the user's XMPP server MUST respond in accordance with
[RFC6121]; this puts an equal burden on the XMPP server and the SIP
proxy.
10. References
10.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3261] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
June 2002.
[RFC3856] Rosenberg, J., "A Presence Event Package for the Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3856, August 2004.
[RFC3857] Rosenberg, J., "A Watcher Information Event Template-
Package for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC
3857, August 2004.
[RFC3863] Sugano, H., Fujimoto, S., Klyne, G., Bateman, A., Carr,
W., and J. Peterson, "Presence Information Data Format
(PIDF)", RFC 3863, August 2004.
[RFC6120] Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP): Core", RFC 6120, March 2011.
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[RFC6121] Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence", RFC
6121, March 2011.
[RFC6665] Roach, A., "SIP-Specific Event Notification", RFC 6665,
July 2012.
[RFC7247] Saint-Andre, P., Houri, A., and J. Hildebrand,
"Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
(XMPP): Architecture, Addresses, and Error Handling", RFC
7247, May 2014.
10.2. Informative References
[RFC2778] Day, M., Rosenberg, J., and H. Sugano, "A Model for
Presence and Instant Messaging", RFC 2778, February 2000.
[RFC2779] Day, M., Aggarwal, S., and J. Vincent, "Instant Messaging
/ Presence Protocol Requirements", RFC 2779, February
2000.
[RFC3860] Peterson, J., "Common Profile for Instant Messaging
(CPIM)", RFC 3860, August 2004.
[RFC4480] Schulzrinne, H., Gurbani, V., Kyzivat, P., and J.
Rosenberg, "RPID: Rich Presence Extensions to the Presence
Information Data Format (PIDF)", RFC 4480, July 2006.
[RFC4825] Rosenberg, J., "The Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP)", RFC 4825, May 2007.
[XEP-0107]
Saint-Andre, P. and R. Meijer, "User Mood", XSF XEP 0107,
October 2008, .
[XEP-0108]
Meijer, R. and P. Saint-Andre, "User Activity", XSF XEP
0108, October 2008,
.
Appendix A. Acknowledgements
Thanks to the authors, contributors, and other individuals
acknowledged in RFC 7248.
Thanks to Saul Ibarra Corretge and Markus Isomaki for their reviews
during working group consideration.
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Special thanks to Ben Campbell for identifying the underlying
discrepancy that resulted in the need to obsolete RFC 7248.
Thanks also to Markus Isomaki and Yana Stamcheva as the working group
chairs and Alissa Cooper as the sponsoring Area Director.
Author's Address
Peter Saint-Andre
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Email: peter@andyet.com
URI: https://andyet.com/
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