Network Working Group                                       J. Rosenberg
Request for Comments: 4826                                         Cisco
Category: Standards Track                                       May 2007


                  Extensible Markup Language (XML)
               Formats for Representing Resource Lists

Status of This Memo

  This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
  Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
  improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
  Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
  and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

  Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007).

Abstract

  In multimedia communications, presence, and instant messaging
  systems, there is a need to define Uniform Resource Identifiers
  (URIs) that represent services that are associated with a group of
  users.  One example is a resource list service.  If a user sends a
  Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SUBSCRIBE message to the URI
  representing the resource list service, the server will obtain the
  state of the users in the associated group, and provide it to the
  sender.  To facilitate definition of these services, this
  specification defines two Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents.
  One document contains service URIs, along with their service
  definition and a reference to the associated group of users.  The
  second document contains the user lists that are referenced from the
  first.  This list of users can be utilized by other applications and
  services.  Both documents can be created and managed with the XML
  Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP).














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Table of Contents

  1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
  2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
  3.  Resource Lists Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
    3.1.  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
    3.2.  Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
    3.3.  Example Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
    3.4.  Usage with XCAP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
      3.4.1.  Application Unique ID  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
      3.4.2.  MIME Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
      3.4.3.  XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
      3.4.4.  Default Namespace  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
      3.4.5.  Additional Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
      3.4.6.  Data Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
      3.4.7.  Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
      3.4.8.  Resource Interdependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
      3.4.9.  Authorization Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
  4.  RLS Services Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
    4.1.  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
    4.2.  Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
    4.3.  Example Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
    4.4.  Usage with XCAP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
      4.4.1.  Application Unique ID  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
      4.4.2.  MIME Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
      4.4.3.  XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
      4.4.4.  Default Namespace  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
      4.4.5.  Additional Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
      4.4.6.  Data Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
      4.4.7.  Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
      4.4.8.  Resource Interdependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
      4.4.9.  Authorization Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
    4.5.  Usage of an RLS Services Document by an RLS  . . . . . . . 20
  5.  SIP URI Canonicalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
  6.  Extensibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
  7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
  8.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
    8.1.  XCAP Application Unique IDs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
      8.1.1.  resource-lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
      8.1.2.  rls-services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
    8.2.  MIME Type Registrations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
      8.2.1.  application/resource-lists+xml . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
      8.2.2.  application/rls-services+xml . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
    8.3.  URN Sub-Namespace Registrations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
      8.3.1.  urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists  . . . . . . . . 27
      8.3.2.  urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services  . . . . . . . . . 28
    8.4.  Schema Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
      8.4.1.  urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:resource-lists  . . . . . . 28



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      8.4.2.  urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:rls-services  . . . . . . . 29
  9.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
  10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
    10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
    10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

1.  Introduction

  The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) [4] defines the SIP Uniform
  Resource Identifier (URI) as any resource to which a SIP request can
  be generated for the purposes of establishing some form of
  communications operation.  These URIs can represent users (for
  example, sip:[email protected]).  The SIP URI can also represent a
  service, such as voicemail, conferencing, or a presence list.  A
  common pattern across such SIP services is that the service is
  defined, and associated with a URI.  In order to operate, that
  service needs to make use of a list of users (or, more generally, a
  list of resources).  When a SIP request is sent to the service URI,
  the server providing the service reads that list, and then performs
  some kind of operation against each resource on the list.  This is
  shown in Figure 1.

                                   /---\
                                  |     |
                                   \---/ Resource
                             +----|     |  List
                             |    |     |
                             |     \---/
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             V
                      +-------------+
                      |             | -------->
                      |    SIP      |
     ---------------> |  Service    | -------->
              service |             |
              URI     |             | -------->
                      +-------------+

                                Figure 1

  One important example of such a service is a presence [11] list
  service.  A presence list service allows a client to generate a SIP
  SUBSCRIBE request to ask for presence information for a list of
  users.  The presence list server obtains the presence for the users
  on the list and provides them back to the client.  A presence list



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  server is a specific case of a resource list server (RLS) [14], which
  allows a client to generate a SIP SUBSCRIBE request to ask for
  notifications of SIP events for a list of resources.

  Another example of such a service is an instant conference service.
  If a client sends a SIP INVITE request to the URI representing the
  instance conference service, the conference server will create a
  conference call containing the client and the associated group of
  users.

  It is very useful for a user of these systems to define the groups of
  users or resources (generally called a resource list) separately from
  the services that access those resource lists.  Indeed, there are
  usages for resource lists even in the absence of any associated
  network-based service.  As an example, rather than use a presence
  list service, a client might generate individual SUBSCRIBE requests
  to obtain the presence of each user in a locally stored presence
  list.  In such a case, there is a need for a format for storing the
  list locally on disk.  Furthermore, the user might wish to share the
  list with friends, and desire to email it to those friends.  This
  also requires a standardized format for the resource list.

  As such, this document defines two Extensible Markup Language (XML)
  document formats.  The first is used to represent resource lists,
  independent of any particular service.  The second is used to define
  service URIs for an RLS, and to associate a resource list with the
  service URI.  This document also defines an XML Configuration Access
  Protocol (XCAP) [10] application usage for managing each of these two
  documents.

2.  Terminology

  In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED",
  "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY",
  and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [1] and
  indicate requirement levels for compliant implementations.

3.  Resource Lists Documents

3.1.  Structure

  A resource lists document is an XML [2] document that MUST be well-
  formed and MUST be valid according to schemas, including extension
  schemas, available to the validater and applicable to the XML
  document.  Resource lists documents MUST be based on XML 1.0 and MUST
  be encoded using UTF-8.  This specification makes use of XML
  namespaces for identifying resource lists documents and document
  fragments.  The namespace URI for elements defined by this



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  specification is a URN [3] that uses the namespace identifier 'ietf'
  defined by RFC 2648 [6] and extended by RFC 3688 [8].  This URN is:

     urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists

  A resource lists document has the <resource-lists> element as the
  root element of the document.  This element has no attributes.  Its
  content is a sequence of zero or more <list> elements, each of which
  defines a single resource list.

  Each <list> element can contain an optional "name" attribute.  This
  attribute is a handle for the list.  When present, it MUST be unique
  amongst all other <list> elements within the same parent element.
  The <list> element may also contain attributes from other namespaces,
  for the purposes of extensibility.

  Each <list> element is composed of an optional display name, a
  sequence of zero or more elements, each of which may be an <entry>
  element, a <list> element, an <entry-ref> element, or an <external>
  element, followed by any number of elements from other namespaces,
  for the purposes of extensibility.  The ability of a <list> element
  to contain other <list> elements means that a resource list can be
  hierarchically structured.  The <display-name> then allows for a
  human-friendly name to be associated with each level in the
  hierarchy.  An <entry> element describes a single resource, defined
  by a URI, that is part of the list.  An <entry-ref> element allows an
  entry in a document within the same XCAP root to be included by
  reference, rather than by value.  An <external> element contains a
  reference to a list stored on this or another server.

  The <entry> element describes a single resource.  The <entry> element
  has a single mandatory attribute, "uri".  This attribute is equal to
  the URI that is used to access the resource.  The resource list
  format itself does not constrain the type of URI that can be used.
  However, the service making use of the resource list may require
  specific URI schemes.  For example, RLS services will require URIs
  that represent subscribeable resources.  This includes the SIP and
  pres [15] URIs.  The "uri" attribute MUST be unique amongst all other
  "uri" attributes in <entry> elements within the same parent.
  Uniqueness is determined by case-sensitive string comparisons.  As
  such, it is possible that two "uri" attributes will have the same URI
  when compared using the functional equality rules defined for that
  URI scheme, but different ones when compared using case sensitive
  string comparison.  The <entry> element can also contain attributes
  from other namespaces for the purposes of extensibility.

  The <entry> element contains a sequence of elements that provide
  information about the entry.  Only one such element is defined at



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  this time, which is <display-name>.  This element provides a UTF-8-
  encoded string, meant for consumption by a human user, that describes
  the resource.  Unlike the "name" attribute of the <entry> element,
  the <display-name> has no uniqueness requirements.  The <display-
  name> element can contain the "xml:lang" attribute, which provides
  the language of the display name.  The <entry> element can contain
  other elements from other namespaces.  This is meant to support the
  inclusion of other information about the entry, such as a phone
  number or postal address.

  The <entry-ref> element allows an entry to be included in the list by
  reference, rather than by value.  This element is only meaningful
  when the document was obtained through XCAP.  In such a case, the
  referenced entry has to exist within the same XCAP root.  The <entry>
  element has a single mandatory attribute, "ref".  The "ref" attribute
  MUST be unique amongst all other "ref" attributes in <entry-ref>
  elements within the same parent.  Uniqueness is determined by case
  sensitive string comparisons.  The <entry-ref> element also allows
  attributes from other namespaces, for the purposes of extensibility.
  The content of an <entry-ref> element is an optional display name,
  followed by any number of elements from other namespaces, for the
  purposes of extensibility.  The display name is useful for providing
  a localized nickname as an alternative to the name defined in the
  <entry> to which the <entry-ref> refers.

  The content of the "ref" attribute is a relative HTTP URI [7].
  Specifically, it MUST be a relative path reference, where the base
  URI is equal to the XCAP root URI of the document in which the
  <entry-ref> appears.  This relative URI, if resolved into an absolute
  URI according to the procedures in RFC 3986, MUST resolve to an
  <entry> element within a resource-lists document.  For example,
  suppose that an <entry> element within a specific XCAP root was
  identified by the following HTTP URI:

  http://xcap.example.com/resource-lists/users/sip:[email protected]/
  index/~~/resource-lists/list%5b@name=%22list1%22%5d/
  entry%5b@uri=%22sip:[email protected]%22%5d

  If http://xcap.example.com is the XCAP root URI, then an <entry-ref>
  element pointing to this entry would have the following form:

  <entry-ref ref="resource-lists/users/sip:[email protected]/
  index/~~/resource-lists/list%5b@name=%22list1%22%5d/
  entry%5b@uri=%22sip:[email protected]%22%5d"/>

  Note that line folding within the HTTP URI and XML attribute above
  are for the purposes of readability only.  Also note that, as
  described in RFC 3986, the relative path URI does not begin with the



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  "/".  Since the relative URI used within the "ref" attribute must be
  a relative path URI, the "/" will never be present as the first
  character within the content of a "ref" attribute.  Since the content
  of the "ref" attribute is a valid HTTP URI, it must be percent-
  encoded within the XML document.

  The <external> element is similar to the <entry-ref> element.  Like
  <entry-ref>, it is only meaningful in documents obtained from an XCAP
  server.  It too is a reference to content stored elsewhere.  However,
  it refers to an entire list, and furthermore, it allows that list to
  be present on another server.  The <external> element has a single
  mandatory attribute, "anchor", which specifies the external list by
  means of an absolute HTTP URI.  The "anchor" attribute MUST be unique
  amongst all other "anchor" attributes in <external> elements within
  the same parent.  Uniqueness is determined by case-sensitive string
  comparisons.  The <external> element can also contain attributes from
  other namespaces, for the purposes of extensibility.  The content of
  an <external> element is an optional <display-name> followed by any
  number of elements from another namespace, for the purposes of
  extensibility.  The value of the "anchor" attribute MUST be an
  absolute HTTP URI.  This URI MUST identify an XCAP resource, and in
  particular, it MUST represent a <list> element within a resource
  lists document.  The URI MUST be percent-encoded.

  For both the <entry-ref> and <external> elements, the responsibility
  of resolving their references falls upon the entity that is making
  use of the document.  When the document is used in conjunction with
  XCAP, this means that the burden falls on the XCAP client.  If the
  XCAP client is a PC-based application using the resource-lists
  document as a presence list, the references would likely be resolved
  upon explicit request by the user.  They can, of course, be resolved
  at any time.  If the XCAP client is an RLS itself, the references
  would be resolved when the RLS receives a SUBSCRIBE request for an
  RLS service associated with a resource list that contains one of
  these references (see below).  An XCAP server defined by this
  specification will not attempt to resolve the references before
  returning the document to the client.  Similarly, if, due to network
  errors or some other problem, the references cannot be resolved, the
  handling is specific to the usage of the document.  For resource
  lists being used by RLS services, the handling is discussed below.











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3.2.  Schema

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <xs:schema targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
   xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
   xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
   elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
  <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
   schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"/>
   <xs:complexType name="listType">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="display-name" type="display-nameType"
      minOccurs="0"/>
     <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
      <xs:choice>
       <xs:element name="list">
        <xs:complexType>
         <xs:complexContent>
          <xs:extension base="listType"/>
         </xs:complexContent>
        </xs:complexType>
       </xs:element>
       <xs:element name="external" type="externalType"/>
       <xs:element name="entry" type="entryType"/>
       <xs:element name="entry-ref" type="entry-refType"/>
      </xs:choice>
     </xs:sequence>
     <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
      maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="optional"/>
    <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
   </xs:complexType>
   <xs:complexType name="entryType">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="display-name" minOccurs="0">
      <xs:complexType>
       <xs:simpleContent>
        <xs:extension base="display-nameType"/>
       </xs:simpleContent>
      </xs:complexType>
     </xs:element>
     <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
      maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attribute name="uri" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/>
    <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
   </xs:complexType>



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   <xs:complexType name="entry-refType">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="display-name" type="display-nameType"
      minOccurs="0"/>
     <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
      maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attribute name="ref" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/>
    <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
   </xs:complexType>
   <xs:complexType name="externalType">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="display-name" type="display-nameType"
      minOccurs="0"/>
     <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
      maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attribute name="anchor" type="xs:anyURI"/>
    <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
   </xs:complexType>
   <xs:element name="resource-lists">
    <xs:complexType>
     <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
      <xs:element name="list" type="listType"/>
     </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>
   <xs:complexType name="display-nameType">
    <xs:simpleContent>
     <xs:extension base="xs:string">
      <xs:attribute ref="xml:lang"/>
     </xs:extension>
    </xs:simpleContent>
   </xs:complexType>
  </xs:schema>

3.3.  Example Document

  The following is an example of a document compliant to the schema.
  All line feeds within element content are for display purposes only.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <resource-lists xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <list name="friends">
    <entry uri="sip:[email protected]">
     <display-name>Bill Doe</display-name>
    </entry>



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    <entry-ref ref="resource-lists/users/sip:[email protected]/index/~~/
     resource-lists/list%5b@name=%22list1%22%5d/entry%5b@uri=%22sip:pet
     [email protected]%22%5d"/>
    <list name="close-friends">
     <display-name>Close Friends</display-name>
     <entry uri="sip:[email protected]">
      <display-name>Joe Smith</display-name>
     </entry>
     <entry uri="sip:[email protected]">
      <display-name>Nancy Gross</display-name>
     </entry>
     <external anchor="http://xcap.example.org/resource-lists/users/
      sip:[email protected]/index/~~/resource-lists/list%5b@name=%22mkti
      ng%22%5d">
       <display-name>Marketing</display-name>
      </external>
    </list>
   </list>
  </resource-lists>

3.4.  Usage with XCAP

  Resource lists documents can be manipulated with XCAP.  This section
  provides the details necessary for such a usage.

3.4.1.  Application Unique ID

  XCAP requires application usages to define an application unique ID
  (AUID) in either the IETF tree or a vendor tree.  This specification
  defines the "resource-lists" AUID within the IETF tree, via the IANA
  registration in Section 8.

3.4.2.  MIME Type

  The MIME type for this document is "application/resource-lists+xml".

3.4.3.  XML Schema

  The XML Schema for this document is defined as the sole content of
  Section 3.2.

3.4.4.  Default Namespace

  The default namespace used in expanding URIs is
  urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists.






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3.4.5.  Additional Constraints

  In addition to the schema, there are constraints on the values
  present in the "name" attribute of the <list> element, the "uri"
  attribute of the <external> element, the "ref" attribute of the
  <entry-ref> element, and the "anchor" attribute of the <external>
  element.  These constraints are defined in Section 3.1.  Some of
  these constraints are enforced by the XCAP server.  Those constraints
  are:

  o  The "name" attribute in a <list> element MUST be unique amongst
     all other "name" attributes of <list> elements within the same
     parent element.  Uniqueness is determined by case-sensitive string
     comparison.

  o  The "uri" attribute in a <entry> element MUST be unique amongst
     all other "uri" attributes of <entry> elements within the same
     parent element.  Uniqueness is determined by case-sensitive string
     comparison.

  o  The URI in the "ref" attribute of the <entry-ref> element MUST be
     unique amongst all other "ref" attributes of <entry-ref> elements
     within the same parent element.  Uniqueness is determined by case-
     sensitive string comparison.  The value of the attribute MUST be a
     relative path reference.  Note that the server is not responsible
     for verifying that the reference resolves to an <entry> element in
     a document within the same XCAP root.

  o  The URI in the "anchor" attribute of the <external> element MUST
     be unique amongst all other "anchor" attributes of <external>
     elements within the same parent element.  Uniqueness is determined
     by case-sensitive string comparison.  The value of the attribute
     MUST be an absolute HTTP URI.  Note that the server is not
     responsible for verifying that the URI resolves to a <list>
     element in a document.  Indeed, since the URI may reference a
     server in another domain, referential integrity cannot be
     guaranteed without adding substantial complexity to the system.

3.4.6.  Data Semantics

  Semantics for the document content are provided in Section 3.1.

3.4.7.  Naming Conventions

  Resource lists documents are usually identified as references from
  other application usages.  For example, an RLS services document
  contains a reference to the resource list it uses.




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  Frequently, an XCAP client will wish to insert or remove an <entry>,
  <entry-ref>, or <external> element from a document without having a
  cached copy of that document.  In such a case, the "uri" attribute of
  the <entry> element, the "ref" attribute of the <entry-ref> element,
  or the "anchor" attribute of the <external> element is used as an
  index to select the element to operate upon.  The XCAP server will
  determine uniqueness by case-sensitive string comparison.  However,
  each of these attributes contain URIs, and the URI equality rules for
  their schemes may allow two URIs to be the same, even if they are
  different by case sensitive string comparison.  As such, it is
  possible that a client will attempt a PUT or DELETE in an attempt to
  modify or remove an existing element.  Instead, the PUT ends up
  inserting a new element, or the DELETE ends up returning an error
  response.

  If the XCAP client cannot determine whether the user intent is to
  create or replace, the client SHOULD canonicalize the URI before
  performing the operation.  For a SIP URI (often present in the "uri"
  attribute of the <entry> element), this canonicalization procedure is
  defined in Section 5.  We expect that the SIP URIs that will be
  placed into resource lists documents will usually be of the form
  sip:user@domain, and possibly include a user parameter.  The
  canonicalization rules work perfectly for these URIs.

  For HTTP URIs, a basic canonicalization algorithm is as follows.  If
  the port in the URI is equal to the default port (80 for http URIs),
  then the port is removed.  The hostname is converted to all
  lowercase.  Any percent-encoding in the URI for characters which do
  not need to be percent-encoded is removed.  A character needs to be
  percent-encoded when it is not permitted in that part of the URI
  based on the grammar for that part of the URI.

3.4.8.  Resource Interdependencies

  There are no resource interdependencies identified by this
  application usage.

3.4.9.  Authorization Policies

  This application usage does not modify the default XCAP authorization
  policy, which is that only a user can read, write, or modify their
  own documents.  A server can allow privileged users to modify
  documents that they don't own, but the establishment and indication
  of such policies is outside the scope of this document.  It is
  anticipated that a future application usage will define which users
  are allowed to modify a list resource.





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4.  RLS Services Documents

4.1.  Structure

  An RLS services document is used to define URIs that represent
  services provided by a Resource List Server (RLS) as defined in [14].
  An RLS services document is an XML [2] document that MUST be well-
  formed and MUST be valid according to schemas, including extension
  schemas, available to the validater and applicable to the XML
  document.  RLS services documents MUST be based on XML 1.0 and MUST
  be encoded using UTF-8.  This specification makes use of XML
  namespaces for identifying RLS services documents and document
  fragments.  The namespace URI for elements defined by this
  specification is a URN [3] that uses the namespace identifier 'ietf'
  defined by RFC 2648 [6] and extended by RFC 3688 [8].  This URN is:

     urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services

  The root element of an rls-services document is <rls-services>.  It
  contains a sequence of <service> elements, each of which defines a
  service available at an RLS.

  Each <service> element has a single mandatory attribute, "uri".  This
  URI defines the resource associated with the service.  That is, if a
  client subscribes to that URI, they will obtain the service defined
  by the corresponding <service> element.  The <service> element can
  also contain attributes from other namespaces, for the purposes of
  extensibility.  The <service> element contains child elements that
  define the service.  For an RLS service, very little service
  definition is needed: just the resource list to which the server will
  perform virtual subscriptions [14] and the set of event packages that
  the service supports.  The former can be conveyed in one of two ways.
  There can be a <resource-list> element, which points to a <list>
  element in a resource-lists document, or there can be a <list>
  element, which includes the resource list directly.  The supported
  packages are contained in the <packages> element.  The <service>
  element can also contain elements from other namespaces, for the
  purposes of extensibility.

  By including the contents of the resource list directly, a user can
  create lists and add members to them with a single XCAP operation.
  However, the resulting list becomes "hidden" within the RLS service
  definition, and is not usable by other application usages.  For this
  reason, the <resource-list> element exists as an alternative.  It can
  reference a <list> element in a resource-lists document.  Since the
  list is separated from the service definition, it can be easily
  reused by other application usages.




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  The <list> element is of the list type defined by the schema for
  resource lists.  It is discussed in Section 3.1.

  The <resource-list> element contains a URI.  This element is only
  meaningful when the document was obtained through XCAP.  The URI MUST
  be an absolute HTTP URI representing an XCAP element resource.  Its
  XCAP root MUST be the same as the XCAP root of the RLS services
  document.  When the RLS services document is present in a user's home
  directory, the HTTP URI MUST exist underneath that user's home
  directory in the resource-lists application usage.  When the RLS
  services document is in the global directory, the HTTP URI MUST exist
  underneath any user's home directory in the resource-lists
  application usage.  In either case, the element referenced by the URI
  MUST be a <list> element within a resource-lists document.  All of
  these constraints except for the latter one (which is a referential
  integrity constraint) will be enforced by the XCAP server.

  The <packages> element contains a sequence of <package> elements.
  The content of each <package> element is the name of a SIP event
  package [13].  The <packages> element may also contain elements from
  additional namespaces, for the purposes of extensibility.  The
  <packages> element is optional.  When it is not present, it means
  that the RLS service will accept subscriptions for any event package.

4.2.  Schema

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <xs:schema targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services"
   xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
   xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services"
   xmlns:rl="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
   elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
   <xs:element name="rls-services">
    <xs:complexType>
     <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
      <xs:element name="service" type="serviceType"/>
     </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>
   <xs:complexType name="serviceType">
    <xs:sequence>
     <xs:choice>
      <xs:element name="resource-list" type="xs:anyURI"/>
      <xs:element name="list" type="rl:listType"/>
     </xs:choice>
     <xs:element name="packages" type="packagesType" minOccurs="0"/>
     <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
      maxOccurs="unbounded"/>



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    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attribute name="uri" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/>
    <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
   </xs:complexType>
   <xs:complexType name="packagesType">
    <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
     <xs:element name="package" type="packageType"/>
     <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
      maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xs:sequence>
   </xs:complexType>
   <xs:simpleType name="packageType">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:string"/>
   </xs:simpleType>
  </xs:schema>

4.3.  Example Document

  This document shows two services.  One is sip:[email protected],
  and the other is sip:[email protected].  The former service
  references a resource list in a resource-lists document, and the
  latter one includes a list locally.  Both services are for the
  presence event package only.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <rls-services xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services"
     xmlns:rl="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <service uri="sip:[email protected]">
    <resource-list>http://xcap.example.com/resource-lists/user
     s/sip:[email protected]/index/~~/resource-lists/list%5b@nam
     e=%22l1%22%5d</resource-list>
    <packages>
     <package>presence</package>
    </packages>
   </service>
   <service uri="sip:[email protected]">
     <list name="marketing">
       <rl:entry uri="sip:[email protected]"/>
       <rl:entry uri="sip:[email protected]"/>
     </list>
     <packages>
       <package>presence</package>
     </packages>
   </service>
  </rls-services>





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4.4.  Usage with XCAP

  RLS services documents can be manipulated with XCAP.  This section
  provides the details necessary for such a usage.

4.4.1.  Application Unique ID

  XCAP requires application usages to define an application unique ID
  ID (AUID) in either the IETF tree or a vendor tree.  This
  specification defines the "rls-services" AUID within the IETF tree,
  via the IANA registration in Section 8.

4.4.2.  MIME Type

  The MIME type for this document is "application/rls-services+xml".

4.4.3.  XML Schema

  The XML Schema for this document is defined as the sole content of
  Section 4.2.

4.4.4.  Default Namespace

  The default namespace used in expanding URIs is
  urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services.

4.4.5.  Additional Constraints

  In addition to the schema, there are constraints on the URIs present
  in the <service> and <resource-list> elements.  These constraints are
  defined in Section 3.1.  Some of these constraints are enforced by
  the XCAP server.  Those constraints are:

  o  The URI in the "uri" attribute of the <service> element MUST be
     unique amongst all other URIs in "uri" elements in any <service>
     element in any document on a particular server.  This uniqueness
     constraint spans across XCAP roots.  Furthermore, the URI MUST NOT
     correspond to an existing resource within the domain of the URI.
     If a server is asked to set the URI to something that already
     exists, the server MUST reject the request with a 409, and use the
     mechanisms defined in [10] to suggest alternate URIs that have not
     yet been allocated.

  o  The URI in a <resource-list> element MUST be an absolute URI.  The
     server MUST verify that the URI path contains "resource-lists" in
     the path segment corresponding to the AUID.  If the RLS services
     document is within the XCAP user tree (as opposed to the global
     tree), the server MUST verify that the XUI in the path is the same



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     as the XUI in the URI of to the RLS services document.  These
     checks are made by examining the URI value, as opposed to
     dereferencing the URI.  The server is not responsible for
     verifying that the URI actually points to a <list> element within
     a valid resource lists document.

  o  In addition, an RLS services document can contain a <list>
     element, which in turn can contain <entry>, <entry-ref>, <list>,
     and <external> elements.  The constraints defined for these
     elements in Section 3.4.7 MUST be enforced.

  o  In some cases, an XCAP client will wish to create a new RLS
     service, and wish to assign it a "vanity URI", such as
     sip:[email protected].  However, the client does not know
     whether this URI meets the uniqueness constraints defined above.
     In that case, it can simply attempt the creation operation, and if
     the result is a 409 that contains a detailed conflict report with
     the <uniqueness-failure> element, the client knows that the URI
     could not be assigned.  It can then retry with a different vanity
     URI, or use one of the suggestions in the detailed conflict
     report.

  o  If the client wishes to create a new RLS service, and it doesn't
     care what the URI is, the client creates a random one, and
     attempts the creation operation.  As discussed in [10], if this
     should fail with a uniqueness conflict, the client can retry with
     different URIs with increasing randomness.

4.4.6.  Data Semantics

  Semantics for the document content are provided in Section 4.1.

4.4.7.  Naming Conventions

  Typically, there are two distinct XCAP clients that access RLS
  services documents.  The first is a client acting on behalf of the
  end user in the system.  This client edits and writes both resource
  lists and RLS services documents as they are created or modified by
  the end user.  The other XCAP client is the RLS itself, which reads
  the RLS services documents in order to process SUBSCRIBE requests.

  To make it easier for an RLS to find the <service> element for a
  particular URI, the XCAP server maintains, within the global tree, a
  single RLS services document representing the union of all the
  <service> elements across all documents created by all users within
  the same XCAP root.  There is a single instance of this document, and
  its name is "index".  Thus, if the root services URI is




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  http://xcap.example.com, the following is the URI that an RLS would
  use to fetch this index:

  http://xcap.example.com/rls-services/global/index

  As discussed below, this index is created from all the documents in
  the user tree that have the name "index" as well.  An implication of
  this is that a client operating on behalf of a user SHOULD define its
  RLS services within the document named "index".  If the root services
  URI is http://xcap.example.com, for user "sip:[email protected]" the
  URI for this document would be:

  http://xcap.example.com/rls-services/users/sip:[email protected]/index

  If a client elects to define RLS services in a different document,
  this document will not be "picked up" in the global index, and
  therefore, will not be used as an RLS service.

4.4.8.  Resource Interdependencies

  As with other application usages, the XML schema and the XCAP
  resource naming conventions describe most of the resource
  interdependencies applicable to this application usage.

  This application usage defines an additional resource interdependence
  between a single document in the global tree and all documents in the
  user tree with the name "index".  This global document is formed as
  the union of all of the index documents for all users within the same
  XCAP root.  In this case, the union operation implies that each
  <service> element in a user document will also be present as a
  <service> element in the global document.  The inverse is true as
  well.  Every <service> element in the global document exists within a
  user document within the same XCAP root.

  As an example, consider the RLS services document for user
  sip:[email protected]:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <rls-services>
   <service uri="sip:[email protected]">
    <resource-list>http://xcap.example.com/resource-lists/users/si
     p:[email protected]/index/~~/resource-lists/list%5b@name=%22l1%
     22%5d</resource-list>
    <packages>
     <package>presence</package>
    </packages>
   </service>
  </rls-services>



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  And consider the RLS services document for user bob:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <rls-services>
   <service uri="sip:[email protected]">
     <list name="marketing">
       <rl:entry uri="sip:[email protected]"/>
       <rl:entry uri="sip:[email protected]"/>
     </list>
     <packages>
       <package>presence</package>
     </packages>
   </service>
  </rls-services>

  The global document at
  http://xcap.example.com/rls-services/global/index would look like
  this:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <rls-services xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services"
     xmlns:rl="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <service uri="sip:[email protected]">
    <resource-list>http://xcap.example.com/resource-lists/user
     s/sip:[email protected]/index/~~/resource-lists/list%5b@nam
     e=%22l1%22%5d</resource-list>
    <packages>
     <package>presence</package>
    </packages>
   </service>
   <service uri="sip:[email protected]">
     <list name="marketing">
       <rl:entry uri="sip:[email protected]"/>
       <rl:entry uri="sip:[email protected]"/>
     </list>
     <packages>
       <package>presence</package>
     </packages>
   </service>
  </rls-services>

  Requests made against the global document MUST generate responses
  that reflect the most recent state of all the relevant user
  documents.  This requirement does not imply that the server must
  actually store this global document.  It is anticipated that most
  systems will dynamically construct the responses to any particular
  request against the document resource.



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  The uniqueness constraint on the "uri" attribute of <service> will
  ensure that no two <service> elements in the global document have the
  same value of that attribute.

4.4.9.  Authorization Policies

  This application usage does not modify the default XCAP authorization
  policy, which is that only a user can read, write, or modify their
  own documents.  A server can allow privileged users to modify
  documents that they don't own, but the establishment and indication
  of such policies are outside the scope of this document.  It is
  anticipated that a future application usage will define which users
  are allowed to modify an RLS services document.

  The index document maintained in the global tree represents sensitive
  information, as it contains the union of all the information for all
  users on the server.  As such, its access MUST be restricted to
  trusted elements within domain of the server.  Typically, this would
  be limited to the RLSs that need access to this document.

4.5.  Usage of an RLS Services Document by an RLS

  This section discusses how an RLS, on receipt of a SUBSCRIBE request,
  uses XCAP and the RLS services document to guide its operation.

  When an RLS receives a SUBSCRIBE request for a URI (present in the
  Request URI), it obtains the <service> element whose uri attribute
  matches (based on URI equality) the URI in the SUBSCRIBE request.
  This document makes no normative statements on how this might be
  accomplished.  The following paragraph provides one possible
  approach.

  The RLS canonicalizes the Request URI as described in Section 5.  It
  then performs an XCAP GET operation against the URI formed by
  combining the XCAP root with the document selector of the global
  index with a node selector of the form "rls-services/
  service[@uri=<canonical-uri>]", where <canonical-uri> is the
  canonicalized version of the Request URI.  If the response is a 200
  OK, it will contain the service definition for that URI.

  Once the <service> element has been obtained, it is examined.  If the
  <packages> element is present, and the event package in the SUBSCRIBE
  request is not amongst those listed in the <package> elements within
  <packages>, the request MUST be rejected with a 489 (Bad Event)
  response code, as described in [13].  Otherwise, it SHOULD be
  processed.  The next step is to authorize that the client is allowed
  to subscribe to the resource.  This can be done using the data
  defined in [12], for example.  Assuming the subscriber is authorized



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  to subscribe to that resource, the subscription is processed
  according to the procedures defined in [14].  This processing
  requires the RLS to compute a flat list of URIs that are to be
  subscribed to.  If the <service> element had a <list> element, it is
  extracted.  If the <service> element had a <resource-list> element,
  its URI content is dereferenced.  The result should be a <list>
  element.  If it is not, the request SHOULD be rejected with a 502
  (Bad Gateway).  Otherwise, that <list> element is extracted.

  At this point, the RLS has a <list> element in its possession.  The
  next step is to obtain a flat list of URIs from this element.  To do
  that, it traverses the tree of elements rooted in the <list> element.
  Before traversal begins, the RLS initializes two lists: the "flat
  list", which will contain the flat list of the URI after traversal,
  and the "traversed list", which contains a list of HTTP URIs in
  <external> elements that have already been visited.  Both lists are
  initially empty.  Next, tree traversal begins.  A server can use any
  tree-traversal ordering it likes, such as depth-first search or
  breadth-first search.  The processing at each element in the tree
  depends on the name of the element:

  o  If the element is <entry>, the URI in the "uri" attribute of the
     element is added to the flat list if it is not already present
     (based on case-sensitive string equality) in that list, and the
     URI scheme represents one that can be used to service
     subscriptions, such as SIP [4] and pres [15].

  o  If the element is an <entry-ref>, the relative path reference
     making up the value of the "ref" attribute is resolved into an
     absolute URI.  This is done using the procedures defined in
     Section 5.2 of RFC 3986 [7], using the XCAP root of the RLS
     services document as the base URI.  This absolute URI is resolved.
     If the result is not a 200 OK containing a <entry> element, the
     SUBSCRIBE request SHOULD be rejected with a 502 (Bad Gateway).
     Otherwise, the <entry> element returned is processed as described
     in the previous step.

  o  If the element is an <external> element, the absolute URI making
     up the value of the "anchor" attribute of the element is examined.
     If the URI is on the traversed list, the server MUST cease
     traversing the tree, and SHOULD reject the SUBSCRIBE request with
     a 502 (Bad Gateway).  If the URI is not on the traversed list, the
     server adds the URI to the traversed list, and dereferences the
     URI.  If the result is not a 200 OK containing a <list> element,
     the SUBSCRIBE request SHOULD be rejected with a 502 (Bad Gateway).
     Otherwise, the RLS replaces the <external> element in its local
     copy of the tree with the <list> element that was returned, and
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  Because the <external> element is used to dynamically construct the
  tree, there is a possibility of recursive evaluation of references.
  The traversed list is used to prevent this from happening.

  Once the tree has been traversed, the RLS can create virtual
  subscriptions to each URI in the flat list, as defined in [14].  In
  the processing steps outlined above, when an <entry-ref> or
  <external> element contains a reference that cannot be resolved,
  failing the request is at SHOULD strength.  In some cases, an RLS may
  provide better service by creating virtual subscriptions to the URIs
  in the flat list that could be obtained, omitting those that could
  not.  Only in those cases should the SHOULD recommendation be
  ignored.

5.  SIP URI Canonicalization

  This section provides a technique for URI canonicalization.  This
  canonicalization produces a URI that, in most cases, is equal to the
  original URI (where equality is based on the URI comparison rules in
  RFC 3261).  Furthermore, the canonicalized URI will usually be
  lexically equivalent to the canonicalized version of any other URI
  equal to the original.

  To canonicalize the URI, the following steps are followed:

  1.  First, the domain part of the URI is converted into all
      lowercase, and any tokens (such as "user" or "transport" or
      "udp") are converted to all lowercase.

  2.  Secondly, any percent-encoding in the URI for characters which do
      not need to be percent-encoded is removed.  A character needs to
      be percent-encoded when it is not permitted in that part of the
      URI based on the grammar for that part of the URI.  For example,
      if a SIP URI is sip:%6aoe%[email protected], it is changed to
      sip:joe%[email protected].  In the original URI, the character
      'j' was percent-encoded.  This is allowed, but not required,
      since the grammar allows a 'j' to appear in the user part.  As a
      result, it appears as 'j' after this step of canonicalization.

  3.  Thirdly, any URI parameters are reordered so that they appear in
      lexical order based on parameter name.  The ordering of a
      character is determined by the US-ASCII numerical value of that
      character, with smaller numbers coming first.  Parameters are
      ordered with the leftmost character as most significant.  For
      parameters that contain only letters, this is equivalent to an
      alphabetical ordering.





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  4.  Finally, any header parameters are discarded.  This canonicalized
      URI is used instead of the original URI.

  If two URIs, A and B, are functionally equal (meaning that they are
  equal according to the URI comparison rules in RFC 3261), their
  canonicalized URIs are equal under case-sensitive string comparison
  if the following are true:

  o  Neither URI contains header parameters.

  o  If one of the URI contains a URI parameter not defined in RFC
     3261, the other does as well.

6.  Extensibility

  Resource-lists and RLS services documents are meant to be extended.
  An extension takes place by defining a new set of elements in a new
  namespace, governed by a new schema.  Every extension MUST have an
  appropriate XML namespace assigned to it.  The XML namespace of the
  extension MUST be different from the namespaces defined in this
  specification.  The extension MUST NOT change the syntax or semantics
  of the schemas defined in this document.  All XML tags and attributes
  that are part of the extension MUST be appropriately qualified so as
  to place them within that namespace.

  This specification defines explicit places where new elements or
  attributes from an extension can be placed.  These are explicitly
  indicated in the schemas by the <any> and <anyAttribute> elements.
  Extensions to this specification MUST specify where their elements
  can be placed within the document.

  As a result, a document that contains extensions will require
  multiple schemas in order to determine its validity: a schema defined
  in this document, along with those defined by extensions present in
  the document.  Because extensions occur by adding new elements and
  attributes governed by new schemas, the schemas defined in this
  document are fixed and would only be changed by a revision to this
  specification.  Such a revision, should it take place, would endeavor
  to allow documents compliant to the previous schema to remain
  compliant to the new one.  As a result, the schemas defined here
  don't provide explicit schema versions, as this is not expected to be
  needed.









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7.  Security Considerations

  The information contained in rls-services and resource-lists
  documents are particularly sensitive.  It represents the principle
  set of people with whom a user would like to communicate.  As a
  result, clients SHOULD use TLS when contacting servers in order to
  fetch this information.  Note that this does not represent a change
  in requirement strength from XCAP.

8.  IANA Considerations

  There are several IANA considerations associated with this
  specification.

8.1.  XCAP Application Unique IDs

  This section registers two new XCAP Application Unique IDs (AUIDs)
  according to the IANA procedures defined in [10].

8.1.1.  resource-lists

  Name of the AUID:  resource-lists

  Description:  A resource lists application is any application that
     needs access to a list of resources, identified by a URI, to which
     operations, such as subscriptions, can be applied.

8.1.2.  rls-services

  Name of the AUID:  rls-services

  Description:  A Resource List Server (RLS) services application is a
     Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application whereby a server
     receives SIP SUBSCRIBE requests for resource, and generates
     subscriptions towards a resource list.
















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8.2.  MIME Type Registrations

  This specification requests the registration of two new MIME types
  according to the procedures of RFC 4288 [9] and guidelines in RFC
  3023 [5].

8.2.1.  application/resource-lists+xml

  MIME media type name:  application

  MIME subtype name:  resource-lists+xml

  Mandatory parameters:  none

  Optional parameters:  Same as charset parameter application/xml as
     specified in RFC 3023 [5].

  Encoding considerations:  Same as encoding considerations of
     application/xml as specified in RFC 3023 [5].

  Security considerations:  See Section 10 of RFC 3023 [5] and
     Section 7 of RFC 4826.

  Interoperability considerations:  none

  Published specification:  RFC 4826

  Applications that use this media type:  This document type has been
     used to support subscriptions to lists of users [14] for SIP-based
     presence [11].

  Additional Information:

        Magic Number: none

        File Extension: .rl

        Macintosh file type code: "TEXT"

  Personal and email address for further information:
     Jonathan Rosenberg, [email protected]

  Intended usage:  COMMON

  Author/Change controller:  The IETF.






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8.2.2.  application/rls-services+xml

  MIME media type name:  application

  MIME subtype name:  rls-services+xml

  Mandatory parameters:  none

  Optional parameters:  Same as charset parameter application/xml as
     specified in RFC 3023 [5].

  Encoding considerations:  Same as encoding considerations of
     application/xml as specified in RFC 3023 [5].

  Security considerations:  See Section 10 of RFC 3023 [5] and
     Section 7 of RFC 4826.

  Interoperability considerations:  none

  Published specification:  RFC 4826

  Applications that use this media type:  This document type has been
     used to support subscriptions to lists of users [14] for SIP-based
     presence [11].

  Additional Information:

        Magic Number: none

        File Extension: .rs

        Macintosh file type code: "TEXT"

  Personal and email address for further information:
     Jonathan Rosenberg, [email protected]

  Intended usage:  COMMON

  Author/Change controller:  The IETF.












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8.3.  URN Sub-Namespace Registrations

  This section registers two new XML namespaces, as per the guidelines
  in RFC 3688 [8].

8.3.1.  urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists

  URI:  The URI for this namespace is
     urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists.

  Registrant Contact:  IETF, SIMPLE working group, ([email protected]),
     Jonathan Rosenberg ([email protected]).


   XML:
          BEGIN
          <?xml version="1.0"?>
          <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
             "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
          <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
          <head>
            <meta http-equiv="content-type"
               content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
            <title>Resource Lists Namespace</title>
          </head>
          <body>
            <h1>Namespace for Resource Lists</h1>
            <h2>urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists</h2>
            <p>See <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4826.txt">
               RFC4826</a>.</p>
          </body>
          </html>
          END


















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8.3.2.  urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services

  URI:  The URI for this namespace is
     urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services.

  Registrant Contact:  IETF, SIMPLE working group, ([email protected]),
     Jonathan Rosenberg ([email protected]).


  XML:
         BEGIN
         <?xml version="1.0"?>
         <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
         <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
         <head>
           <meta http-equiv="content-type"
              content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
           <title>Resource List Server (RLS) Services Namespace</title>
         </head>
         <body>
           <h1>Namespace for Resource List Server (RLS) Services</h1>
           <h2>urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:rls-services</h2>
           <p>See <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4826.txt">
              RFC4826</a>.</p>
         </body>
         </html>
         END

8.4.  Schema Registrations

  This section registers two XML schemas per the procedures in [8].

8.4.1.  urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:resource-lists

  URI:  urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:resource-lists

  Registrant Contact:  IETF, SIMPLE working group, ([email protected]),
     Jonathan Rosenberg ([email protected]).

  The XML for this schema can be found as the sole content of
  Section 3.2.









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8.4.2.  urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:rls-services

  URI:  urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:rls-services

  Registrant Contact:  IETF, SIMPLE working group, ([email protected]),
     Jonathan Rosenberg ([email protected]).

  The XML for this schema can be found as the sole content of
  Section 4.2.

9.  Acknowledgements

  The authors would like to thank Hisham Khartabil, Jari Urpalainen,
  and Spencer Dawkins for their comments and input.  Thanks to Ted
  Hardie for his encouragement and support of this work.

10.  References

10.1.  Normative References

  [1]   Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
        Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

  [2]   Paoli, J., Maler, E., Bray, T., and C. Sperberg-McQueen,
        "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)", World
        Wide Web Consortium FirstEdition REC-xml-20001006,
        October 2000, <http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006>.

  [3]   Moats, R., "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, May 1997.

  [4]   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.

  [5]   Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media Types",
        RFC 3023, January 2001.

  [6]   Moats, R., "A URN Namespace for IETF Documents", RFC 2648,
        August 1999.

  [7]   Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
        Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986,
        January 2005.

  [8]   Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
        January 2004.





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  [9]   Freed, N. and J. Klensin, "Media Type Specifications and
        Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 4288, December 2005.

  [10]  Rosenberg, J., "The Extensible Markup Language (XML)
        Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP)", RFC 4825, May 2007.

10.2.  Informative References

  [11]  Rosenberg, J., "A Presence Event Package for the Session
        Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3856, August 2004.

  [12]  Rosenberg, J., "Presence Authorization Rules", Work
        in Progress, October 2006.

  [13]  Roach, A., "Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-Specific Event
        Notification", RFC 3265, June 2002.

  [14]  Roach, A., Rosenberg, J., and B. Campbell, "A Session
        Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Notification Extension for
        Resource Lists", RFC 4662, January 2005.

  [15]  Peterson, J., "Common Profile for Presence (CPP)", RFC 3859,
        August 2004.

Author's Address

  Jonathan Rosenberg
  Cisco
  Edison, NJ
  US

  EMail: [email protected]
  URI:   http://www.jdrosen.net


















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