Network Working Group                                   M. Garcia-Martin
Request for Comments: 5364                                  G. Camarillo
Category: Standards Track                                       Ericsson
                                                           October 2008


 Extensible Markup Language (XML) Format Extension for Representing
              Copy Control Attributes in 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.

Abstract

  In certain types of multimedia communications, a Session Initiation
  Protocol (SIP) request is distributed to a group of SIP User Agents
  (UAs).  The sender sends a single SIP request to a server which
  further distributes the request to the group.  This SIP request
  contains a list of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), which
  identify the recipients of the SIP request.  This URI list is
  expressed as a resource list XML document.  This specification
  defines an XML extension to the XML resource list format that allows
  the sender of the request to qualify a recipient with a copy control
  level similar to the copy control level of existing email systems.

Table of Contents

  1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
  2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
  3.  Overview of Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
  4.  Extension to the Resource List Data Format . . . . . . . . . .  6
  5.  XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
  6.  Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
  7.  Carrying URI Lists in SIP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
  8.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
  9.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
    9.1.  Disposition Type Registration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
    9.2.  XML Namespace Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
    9.3.  XML Schema Registration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
  10. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
  11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
    11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
    11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15



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1.  Introduction

  RFC 5363 [RFC5363] describes a generic framework for carrying Uniform
  Resource Identifier (URI) lists in SIP [RFC3261] messages.
  Specifically, the document provides a common framework for specific
  implementations of URI-list services, such as conferences initiated
  with INVITE requests [RFC5366] or Multiple-recipient MESSAGE requests
  [RFC5365].

  Common to all URI-list services is the presence of a SIP request that
  contains a collection of resources, typically expressed as an XML
  resource list [RFC4826].  SIP requests carrying resource lists can
  appear either in requests received by the URI-list server, indicating
  the list of intended recipients, or in each of the requests that the
  URI-list server sends to recipients, indicating the list of
  recipients of the same SIP request.

  Although the XML resource list [RFC4826] provides a powerful
  mechanism for describing a list of resources, there is a need for a
  copy control attribute to determine whether a resource is receiving a
  SIP request as a primary recipient, a carbon copy, or a blind carbon
  copy.  This is similar to common email systems, where the sender can
  categorize each recipient as a "to", "cc", or "bcc" recipient.

  This document addresses this problem by providing an extension to the
  XML resource list [RFC4826] that enables the sender to supply a copy
  control attribute that labels each recipient as a "to", "cc", or
  "bcc" recipient.  This attribute indicates whether the recipient is
  receiving a primary copy of the SIP request, a carbon copy, or a
  blind carbon copy.  Additionally, we provide the sender with the
  capability of indicating in the URI list that one or more resources
  should be anonymized, so that some recipients' URIs are not disclosed
  to the other recipients.  Instead, these URIs are replaced with
  anonymous URIs.

  The remainder of this document is organized as follows: Section 2
  introduces the terminology used throughout this specification.
  Section 3 gives an overview of operation.  Section 4 formally defines
  an extension to URI lists.  The XML schema definition is provided in
  Section 5.  Section 6 shows examples of the URI lists with the
  extensions defined in this document.  Section 7 discusses the
  implications of carrying URI lists in SIP messages.









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2.  Terminology

  The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
  "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
  document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119
  [RFC2119] and indicate requirement levels for compliant
  implementations.

  URI-list service:  SIP application service that receives a SIP
     request containing a URI list and sends a similar SIP request to
     each URI in the list.

  Intended recipient:  The intended final recipient of the request to
     be generated by URI-list service.

  Copy control:   An attribute assigned by the sender to a URI in an
     XML resource list.  Its purpose is to indicate to the recipient
     whether he is getting a primary, carbon, or blind carbon copy of
     the SIP request.

  Recipient list or recipient XML resource list:   An XML resource list
     containing the list of intended recipients.  The sender sets this
     list in the SIP request he sends to the URI-list server.

  Recipient-history list or recipient-history XML resource list:   An
     XML resource list containing the visible list of recipients (i.e.,
     those non-anonymous non-bcc).  The URI-list server creates this
     list, based on the recipient list, and includes it in each of the
     SIP requests it sends to each recipient.

3.  Overview of Operation

  Figure 1 depicts a general overview of the operation of a URI-list
  server.  A SIP User Agent Client (UAC) issuer sends a SIP request
  (F1) to a URI-list server containing a recipient list.  The URI-list
  server generates a SIP request to each recipient, according to the
  specific SIP method.  Each of these SIP requests contains a
  recipient-history list that indicates the visible list of recipients
  of the SIP request.












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  +--------+        +---------+        +--------+ +--------+ +--------+
  |SIP UAC |        | URI-list|        |intended| |intended| |intended|
  | issuer |        |  server |        | recip. | | recip. | | recip. |
  |        |        |         |        |   1    | |   2    | |   3    |
  +--------+        +---------+        +--------+ +--------+ +--------+
      |                  |                 |          |          |
      | F1 SIP request   |                 |          |          |
      |  (recipt. list)  |                 |          |          |
      | ---------------->|                 |          |          |
      | F2 2xx response  |                 |          |          |
      |<---------------- | F3 SIP request  |          |          |
      |                  | (recp-hist.list)|          |          |
      |                  | --------------->|          |          |
      |                  | F4 SIP request  |          |          |
      |                  | (recp-hist.list)|          |          |
      |                  | -------------------------->|          |
      |                  | F5 SIP request  |          |          |
      |                  | (recp-hist.list)|          |          |
      |                  | ------------------------------------->|
      |                  |  F6 200 OK      |          |          |
      |                  |<--------------- |          |          |
      |                  |  F7 200 OK      |          |          |
      |                  |<-------------------------- |          |
      |                  |  F8 200 OK      |          |          |
      |                  |<------------------------------------- |
      |                  |                 |          |          |
      |                  |                 |          |          |
      |                  |                 |          |          |

                     Figure 1: Example of operation

  The URI-list mechanism allows a sender to specify multiple targets
  for a SIP request by including a recipient XML resource list
  [RFC4826] in the body of the SIP request.  This recipient list
  includes the target URIs of the SIP request (the actual procedures
  are method specific and outside the scope of this document).  Each
  target URI may also be marked with a copy control attribute to
  indicate the copy level in which the recipient is receiving the SIP
  request.  This is achieved by the sender qualifying each URI in the
  URI list with a 'copyControl' attribute.  The available values of the
  'copyControl' attribute include "to", "cc", and "bcc" (analogous to
  email).  This is discussed in greater detail in Section 4.  When the
  URI-list server expands the request to each recipient, the URI-list
  server includes a recipient-history XML resource list built upon the
  recipient list received from the sender.  The recipient-history XML
  resource list replaces the recipient list in the SIP requests
  generated by the URI-list server towards each recipient.  The URI-
  list server copies from the recipient list those targets that are



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  marked with the "to" and "cc" copy control level, and pastes them in
  the recipient-history list.  The URI-list server explicitly excludes
  from the recipient-history list those URIs marked with a "bcc" copy
  control, although it is able to preserve the address of a "bcc"
  tagged URI when it matches the URI of the recipient of the SIP
  request (this is described later in Section 4).  When a recipient
  receives the SIP request containing the recipient-history XML
  resource list, he is able to determine which other visible recipients
  are getting a copy of the SIP request, and whether they are marked
  with the "to" or "cc" copy control level.  Later, if needed, the
  recipient can generate a reply to those visible recipients.

  In addition to the 'copyControl' attribute for a URI in an XML
  resource list, we define a second boolean attribute called
  'anonymize'.  The sender of a SIP request can mark a URI in a
  recipient XML resource list with the 'anonymize' attribute to
  indicate the URI-list server that the URI marked with that attribute
  is to be replaced with an anonymous URI in the recipient-history XML
  resource list.  This provides knowledge to the recipients of a SIP
  request of the number of additional visible recipients whose URIs
  have not been disclosed.

  There are cases when the sender marks several URIs with the
  'anonymize' attribute.  The URI-list server can group the anonymized
  URIs in a single anonymized URI within its copy control level, and
  provide a count of the number of anonymized URIs.  To support this
  scenario, we define a new 'count' attribute to a URI in the
  recipient-history XML resource list.  It is expected that the 'count'
  attribute is only used with anonymous URIs, although syntactically it
  is possible to add a 'count' attribute to any URI in any XML resource
  list.

  Initially, it may be thought that the 'anonymize' attribute overlaps
  with the "bcc" value of the 'copyControl' attribute.  However, there
  are differences between them.  If the sender qualifies a URI with a
  'copyControl' attribute of "bcc" in the recipient XML resource list,
  the URI-list server will typically remove that URI from the
  recipient-history XML resource list (unless the URI-list server
  decides to preserve a "bcc" marked URI when that URI is itself the
  recipient of the SIP request).  Recipients of the SIP request will
  not notice that one or more extra "bcc" URIs also received the
  request.  However, if the sender qualifies a URI with the 'anonymize'
  attribute in the recipient XML resource list, the URI-list server
  will replace the URI with an anonymous one in the recipient-history
  list.  Recipients of the SIP request will notice that there have been
  one or more additional recipients of the same request, but their URIs
  are not disclosed.




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4.  Extension to the Resource List Data Format

  This document defines an extension to the XML resource list data
  format [RFC4826] that allows the sender to indicate a copy control
  attribute that qualifies a recipient with a copy control level.  We
  define a new 'copyControl' attribute to the <entry> element of the
  resource list document format [RFC4826].  The 'copyControl' attribute
  has similar semantics to the type of destination address in email
  systems.  It can take the values "to", "cc", and "bcc".  A "to" value
  of the 'copyControl' attribute indicates that the resource is
  considered a primary recipient of the SIP request.  A "cc" value
  indicates that the resource receives a carbon copy of the SIP
  request.  A "bcc" value indicates that the resource receives a blind
  carbon copy of the SIP request (i.e., this URI is not disclosed to
  other recipients of the SIP request).  The default 'copyControl'
  value is "bcc".  That is, the absence of a 'copyControl' attribute
  MUST be treated as if the 'copyControl' was set to "bcc".

  When creating a recipient-history list, URI-list servers use "bcc"
  'copyControl' attributes to route SIP requests.  In addition, URI-
  list servers behave similarly to email systems [RFC2822] with respect
  to the treatment of these URIs marked with a "bcc" copy control,
  because they have two ways of treating "bcc" marked URIs.  URI-list
  servers MUST treat these "bcc" marked URIs in either of the following
  two ways:

  o  URI-list servers MUST remove all URIs marked with a "bcc" copy
     control in recipient-history lists.  This mechanism allows URI-
     list servers to send the same recipient-history list to each
     recipient of the SIP request.  However, recipients who are tagged
     with "bcc" values are not explicitly informed about it.

  o  URI-list servers MUST preserve with a "bcc" copy control in the
     recipient-history list the URI that identifies the recipient (if
     any) and MUST remove the remaining URIs marked with a "bcc" copy
     control.  Consequently, each recipient receives a different
     recipient-history list.  However, recipients who have been marked
     with a "bcc" copy control are explicitly informed about it.

  Implementations that are able to receive recipient-history lists must
  pay attention to the contents of the list.  If the recipient's URI is
  not included in the recipient-history list or if it is included but
  tagged with a "bcc" copy control, then implementations SHOULD prevent
  the user from replying to all the recipients of the SIP request.
  This would allow the non-blind recipients to notice the existence of
  blind recipients of the SIP request.





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  A new 'anonymize' attribute can be included in a <entry> element of
  the resource list document format [RFC4826].  If set to a "true"
  value, it provides an indication to the URI-list server for not
  disclosing the URI itself in a URI list sent to the recipient, but
  instead to anonymize the URI (i.e., making it bogus in the recipient-
  history XML resource list).  URI-list servers can use URIs tagged
  with the 'anonymize' attribute for routing SIP requests, but MUST
  convert them to the SIP URI "sip:[email protected]" in
  recipient-history lists.  The default value of the 'anonymize'
  attribute is "false".

  There are occasions where the URI-list server encounters the same URI
  entry duplicated in a resource list, where duplicated URI entries are
  tagged with the same or different values of the 'copyControl'
  attribute.  There are no reasonable usages that justify duplicated
  URIs in resource lists; thus, this is considered an error.  URI-list
  servers should not send duplicated copies of the same SIP request to
  the same intended recipient.  In case the URI-list server encounters
  the same URI entry duplicated in a resource list, it should send at
  most a single copy of the request to that intended recipient.  For
  each set of duplicated URI entries, the URI-list server MUST select
  the highest precedence value of the 'copyControl' attribute for the
  same intended recipient.  The order of precedence of the values of
  the 'copyControl' attribute is: "to", "cc", and "bcc".  Once the URI-
  list server has selected a value for the 'copyControl' attribute of
  an intended recipient, the URI-list server can continue processing
  the request.

  Processing of URIs tagged with a 'copyControl' attribute set to a
  "bcc" value has higher precedence over the 'anonymize' attribute.
  Thus, if the 'copyControl' of a URI is set to "bcc", the URI-list
  server MUST remove that URI from the recipient-history list, and the
  'anonymize' attribute will be ignored.  Therefore, the 'anonymize'
  attribute is only useful for those URIs tagged with a 'copyControl'
  of "to" or "cc".

  A new 'count' attribute can be also included in an <entry> element of
  the resource list document format [RFC4826].  It provides the number
  of equal URIs.  Typically, recipient lists created by UACs will not
  have equal (or duplicate) URI entries; thus, it is not expected to
  contain URIs tagged with 'count' attributes.  However, recipient-
  history lists can contain duplicated anonymized URIs; therefore, it
  is expected that recipient-history lists will contain 'count'
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  The 'copyControl', 'anonymize', and 'count' attributes SHOULD be
  included as modifiers of any of the child elements included in the
  <list> element of a resource list (e.g., attribute of the <entry> or
  <external> elements).

  Section 5 describes the format of the 'copyControl', 'anonymize', and
  'count' attributes.  Implementations according to this specification
  MUST support this XML schema.

  Implementations that receive recipient-history lists must pay
  attention to the contents of the list.  If the recipient's URI is not
  included in recipient-history list or if it is included but tagged
  with a "bcc" copy control, then they SHOULD prevent the user from
  replying to all the recipients of the SIP request.  This would allow
  the non-blind recipients to notice the existence of blind recipients
  in the original SIP request.

5.  XML Schema

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <xs:schema targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol"
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol"
      xmlns:rls="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
      xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
      elementFormDefault="qualified"
      attributeFormDefault="unqualified">

      <xs:annotation>
        <xs:documentation xml:lang="en">
           Adds the copyControl, anonymize, and count attributes
           to URIs included in a resource list.
        </xs:documentation>
      </xs:annotation>

     <xs:import namespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
           schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:resource-lists"/>

      <xs:attribute name="copyControl">
         <xs:simpleType>
            <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
               <xs:enumeration value="to"/>
               <xs:enumeration value="cc"/>
               <xs:enumeration value="bcc"/>
            </xs:restriction>
         </xs:simpleType>
      </xs:attribute>





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     <xs:attribute name="anonymize" type="xs:boolean" default="false"/>
     <xs:attribute name="count" type="xs:nonNegativeInteger"
                                default="1"/>

  </xs:schema>

    Figure 2: XML schema of the extension to the resource list format

6.  Examples

  This section shows two examples of URI lists that can be included in
  SIP requests.  The first example in Figure 3 shows a recipient list
  that the UAC sends to the URI-list server.  This corresponds to a
  list that will be included in the flow F2 in Figure 1.  The recipient
  list contains a flat list according to the resource list data format
  specified in RFC 4826 [RFC4826].  Each resource indicates the copy
  control of a resource with a 'copyControl' attribute.  Some of the
  resources are also marked with the 'anonymize' attribute.  This
  provides an indication to the URI-list service for not disclosing
  their URIs in a recipient-history list.  The last two <entry>
  elements are marked with a 'copyControl' attribute of "bcc".  This
  provides an indication to the URI-list server for removing these URIs
  in the recipient-history list.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <resource-lists xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
            xmlns:cp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol">
    <list>
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="to" />
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="to"
                                         cp:anonymize="true"/>
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="to"
                                        cp:anonymize="true"/>
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="cc" />
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="cc"
                                         cp:anonymize="true"/>
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="bcc" />
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="bcc" />
    </list>
  </resource-lists>

    Figure 3: Recipient list sent from the UAC to the URI-list server

  Upon receipt of the SIP request containing the recipient list of
  Figure 3, the URI-list server creates a SIP request to each of the
  URIs listed in the recipient list (so, in our example, it creates 7
  SIP requests).  The URI-list server processes the recipient list and
  creates a recipient-history list that is included in each of the



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  outgoing SIP requests.  The process is as follows: the URI-list
  server creates a new recipient-history list, based on the recipient
  list, but with changes.  First, it copies all the URIs (<entry>
  elements) marked with the "to" or "cc" 'copyControl' attributes,
  which do not contain an 'anonymize' attribute (or when the
  'anonymize' attribute is set to "false").  Then all the URIs marked
  with a 'copyControl' attribute set to "to" and 'anonymize' attribute
  set to "true" are replaced with the SIP anonymous URI
  "sip:[email protected]".  In this entry, the URI-list
  server also adds the original value of the 'copyControl' attribute
  ("to" in our example), and it adds a 'count' attribute containing the
  number of anonymous entries in this group ("2" in our example).  Then
  the URI-list server does the same operation to the URIs tagged with
  the 'copyControl' attribute set to "cc" and 'anonymize' attribute set
  to "true", adding also the 'count' attribute containing the number of
  anonymous attributes in this group ("1" in the example).  Last, the
  URI-list server removes all URIs marked with the "bcc" 'copyControl'
  attribute.  The resulting recipient-history list is shown in
  Figure 4.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <resource-lists xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
            xmlns:cp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol">
    <list>
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="to" />
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="to"
                                                   cp:count="2"/>
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="cc" />
      <entry uri="sip:[email protected]" cp:copyControl="cc"
                                                   cp:count="1"/>
    </list>
  </resource-lists>

    Figure 4: Recipient-history list sent from the URI-list server to
                             each recipient

7.  Carrying URI Lists in SIP

  A SIP UAC (User Agent Client) that composes a SIP request can include
  a URI list with the extensions specified in this document to indicate
  the list of intended recipients.  On doing so, as specified in RFC
  5363 [RFC5363], the UAC adds a Content-Disposition [RFC2183] header
  field set to the value 'recipient-list'.  Typically UACs send these
  'recipient-list' bodies to URI-list services (this corresponds to
  flow F1 in Figure 1).  A body whose Content-Disposition type is
  'recipient-list' contains a URI list that includes the intended
  recipients of the SIP request, something known throughout this




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  document as a recipient list.  The <entry> element in the URI list
  MAY also include a 'copyControl' and 'anonymize' attributes, as
  specified in Section 4.

  To be able to inform intended recipients of who else is receiving a
  copy of the SIP request, we define a new mail disposition type to be
  included in a Content-Disposition [RFC2183] header field of a SIP
  request.  The value of this new disposition type is 'recipient-list-
  history' and its purpose is to indicate a list of recipients that a
  SIP request was sent to, something known throughout this document as
  a recipient-history list.  A body whose Content-Disposition type is
  'recipient-list-history' contains a URI list with the visible
  (including anonymized) recipients of the SIP request.  The <entry>
  element in the URI list MAY also include a 'copyControl' and 'count'
  attributes, as specified in Section 4.

  On sending a SIP request that contains a recipient-history list, if
  the intended recipient does not support this specification, the SIP
  request should not fail.  In order to ensure successful receipt of
  the SIP requests that include 'recipient-list-history' bodies, User
  Agents (such as URI-list servers) that build SIP requests with the
  Content-Disposition header field set to 'recipient-list-history'
  SHOULD add a "handling" parameter [RFC3204] set to "optional".
  Otherwise, the SIP request could fail and never be received by the
  intended recipient.

  Even though "Message Body Handling in SIP" [SIP_BODY] mandates
  support for multipart bodies, legacy recipients may not support them.
  In such a case, if the request sent by the relay to the recipient
  needs to contain another body (e.g., a MESSAGE request carrying a
  message in its body), the relay will not be able to use this
  extension because the recipient would not be able to process a
  multipart body with the original body plus the 'recipient-list-
  history' body.

8.  Security Considerations

  RFC 5363 [RFC5363] discusses issues related to SIP URI-list services.
  Implementations of this specification MUST follow the security-
  related rules in RFC 5363 [RFC5363].  These rules include opt-in
  lists and mandatory authentication and authorization of clients.

  User Agent Clients SHOULD NOT hand SIP requests containing URI-list
  services to unauthenticated and untrusted parties.  This is to avoid
  man-in-the-middle attacks or acquiring URI lists for performing spam
  attacks.





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  URI lists may contain private information, such as SIP URIs.  It is
  therefore not desirable that these URI lists are known by third
  parties.  Eavesdroppers are able to watch URI lists contained in SIP
  requests unless the SIP message is sent over a secured channel, by
  using any of the available SIP mechanisms, such as Transport Layer
  Security (TLS) [RFC4346], or unless the URI-list body itself is
  encrypted with, e.g., S/MIME [RFC3851].  Therefore, it is RECOMMENDED
  that URI-list bodies are encrypted with S/MIME [RFC3851] or that the
  SIP request is encrypted with TLS [RFC4346] or any other suitable
  encryption mechanism.

  Note that this URI list does not indicate the actual participants in
  the session.  It indicates only the URIs invited and that might
  accept the request.  It does not assert that these parties actually
  exist, that they are reachable at the given URI, or that they have
  accepted the invitation.  No inferences about billing should be made
  from this information.  It is subject to spoofing by loading the list
  with falsified content.

  Issuers of SIP request use the "bcc" copy control attribute described
  in Section 4 to facilitate sending SIP requests to recipients without
  revealing the URIs of one or more of the other recipients.
  Mishandling this use of "bcc" copy control has implications for
  confidential information that might be revealed, which could
  eventually lead to security problems through knowledge of even the
  existence of a particular URI.  For example, if using the first
  method described in Section 4, where the "bcc" tagged URIs are
  removed from the recipient-history list, blind recipients have no
  explicit indication that they have been sent a blind copy of the SIP
  request, except insofar as their URI does not appear in the
  recipient-history list.  Because of this, one of the blind URIs could
  potentially send a reply to all of the shown recipients and
  accidentally reveal that the message went to the blind recipient.
  When the second method from Section 4 is used, the blind recipient's
  address appears in the recipient-history list of a separate copy of
  the list.  If the "bcc" tagged URI sent contains all of the "bcc"
  tagged URIs, all of the "bcc" recipients will be seen by each "bcc"
  recipient.  Even if a separate message is sent to each "bcc"
  recipient with only the individual's URI, implementations still need
  to be careful to process replies to the message as per Section 4 so
  as not to accidentally reveal the blind recipient to other
  recipients.









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9.  IANA Considerations

  IANA has made registrations according to the following subsections: a
  new disposition type, a new XML namespace, and a new XML schema.

9.1.  Disposition Type Registration

  Section 7 defines a new 'recipient-list-history' value of the Mail
  Content Disposition Values registry.  This value has been registered
  in the IANA registry of Mail Content Disposition Values with the
  following registration data:

  +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+
  | Name                   | Description                  | Reference |
  +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+
  | recipient-list-history | the body contains a list of  | [RFC5364] |
  |                        | URIs that indicates the      |           |
  |                        | recipients of the request    |           |
  +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+

   Table 1: Registration of the 'recipient-list-history' Mail Content
                            Disposition Value

9.2.  XML Namespace Registration

  This section registers a new XML namespace in the IANA XML registry,
  as per the guidelines in RFC 3688 [RFC3688].

  URI: The URI for this namespace is urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol

  Registrant Contact: IETF SIPPING working group ([email protected]),
  Miguel Garcia-Martin ([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>Copy Control Namespace</title>
        </head>
        <body>
          <h1>Namespace for the Copy Control Attribute Extension
          in Resource Lists</h1>



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          <h2>urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol</h2>
          <p>See <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5364.txt">
              RFC5364</a>.</p>
        </body>
        </html>
        END

9.3.  XML Schema Registration

  This section registers a new XML schema in the IANA XML registry per
  the procedures in RFC 3688 [RFC3688].

  URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:copycontrol

  Registrant Contact: IETF SIPPING working group ([email protected]),
  Miguel Garcia-Martin ([email protected]).

  The XML for this schema can be found as the sole content of
  Section 5.

10.  Acknowledgments

  Thanks to Dean Willis, Jari Urpalainen, Pekka Kuure, Atsushi Sato,
  Brian Rosen, Mary Barnes, James Polk, Brian E. Carpenter, and Chris
  Newman for reviewing this document and providing helpful comments.

11.  References

11.1.  Normative References

  [RFC2119]   Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

  [RFC2183]   Troost, R., Dorner, S., and K. Moore, "Communicating
              Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The
              Content-Disposition Header Field", RFC 2183, August 1997.

  [RFC3204]   Zimmerer, E., Peterson, J., Vemuri, A., Ong, L., Audet,
              F., Watson, M., and M. Zonoun, "MIME media types for ISUP
              and QSIG Objects", RFC 3204, December 2001.

  [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.

  [RFC3688]   Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
              January 2004.



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  [RFC3851]   Ramsdell, B., "Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail
              Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification",
              RFC 3851, July 2004.

  [RFC4346]   Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
              (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1", RFC 4346, April 2006.

  [RFC4826]   Rosenberg, J., "Extensible Markup Language (XML) Formats
              for Representing Resource Lists", RFC 4826, May 2007.

  [RFC5363]   Camarillo, G. and A.B. Roach, "Framework and Security
              Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) URI-
              List Services", RFC 5363, October 2008.

11.2.  Informative References

  [RFC2822]   Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822,
              April 2001.

  [RFC5366]   Camarillo, G. and A. Johnston, "Conference Establishment
              Using Request-Contained Lists in the Session Initiation
              Protocol (SIP)", RFC 5366, October 2008.

  [RFC5365]   Garcia-Martin, M. and G. Camarillo, "Multiple-Recipient
              MESSAGE Requests in the Session Initiation Protocol
              (SIP)", RFC 5365, October 2008.

  [SIP_BODY]  Camarillo, G., "Message Body Handling in the Session
              Initiation Protocol (SIP)", Work in Progress,
              August 2008.





















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Authors' Addresses

  Miguel A. Garcia-Martin
  Ericsson
  Via de los Poblados 13
  Madrid  28033
  Spain

  EMail: [email protected]


  Gonzalo Camarillo
  Ericsson
  Hirsalantie 11
  Jorvas  02420
  Finland

  EMail: [email protected]

































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