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This document describes extensions to core features of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that provide basic instant messaging (IM) and presence functionality in conformance with RFC 2779.
This document obsoletes RFC 3921.
1.
Introduction
1.1.
Overview
1.2.
Requirements
1.3.
Functional Summary
1.4.
Conventions
1.5.
Discussion Venue
2.
Managing the Roster
2.1.
Syntax and Semantics
2.1.1.
Items
2.1.2.
Roster Get
2.1.3.
Roster Set
2.1.4.
Roster Push
2.1.5.
Roster Result
2.1.6.
Subscription Attribute
2.2.
Retrieving the Roster on Login
2.3.
Adding a Roster Item
2.3.1.
Success Case
2.3.2.
Error Cases
2.4.
Updating a Roster Item
2.4.1.
Success Case
2.4.2.
Error Cases
2.5.
Deleting a Roster Item
2.5.1.
Success Case
2.5.2.
Error Cases
3.
Managing Presence Subscriptions
3.1.
Requesting a Subscription
3.1.1.
Client Generation of Outbound Subscription Request
3.1.2.
Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Request
3.1.3.
Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Request
3.1.4.
Client Processing of Inbound Subscription Request
3.1.5.
Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Approval
3.1.6.
Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Approval
3.2.
Cancelling a Subscription
3.2.1.
Client Generation of Subscription Cancellation
3.2.2.
Server Processing of Outbound Subscription Cancellation
3.2.3.
Server Processing of Inbound Subscription Cancellation
3.3.
Unsubscribing
3.3.1.
Client Generation of Unsubscribe
3.3.2.
Server Processing of Outbound Unsubscribe
3.3.3.
Server Processing of Inbound Unsubscribe
4.
Exchanging Presence Information
4.1.
Overview
4.2.
Initial Presence
4.2.1.
Client Generation of Initial Presence
4.2.2.
Server Processing of Outbound Presence
4.2.3.
Server Processing of Inbound Presence
4.2.4.
Client Processing of Inbound Presence
4.3.
Presence Probes
4.3.1.
Server Generation of Outbound Presence Probe
4.3.2.
Server Processing of Inbound Presence Probe
4.4.
Subsequent Presence Broadcast
4.4.1.
Client Generation of Presence Broadcast
4.4.2.
Server Processing of Outbound Presence
4.4.3.
Server Processing of Inbound Presence
4.4.4.
Client Processing of Inbound Presence
4.5.
Unavailable Presence
4.5.1.
Client Generation of Unavailable Presence
4.5.2.
Server Processing of Outbound Unavailable Presence
4.5.3.
Server Processing of Inbound Unavailable Presence
4.5.4.
Client Processing of Inbound Unavailable Presence
4.6.
Directed Presence
4.6.1.
Client Generation of Directed Presence
4.6.2.
Server Processing of Outbound Directed Presence
4.6.3.
Server Processing of Inbound Directed Presence
4.6.4.
Client Processing of Inbound Directed Presence
4.7.
Presence Syntax
4.7.1.
Type Attribute
4.7.2.
Child Elements
4.7.3.
Show Element
4.7.4.
Status Element
4.7.5.
Priority Element
4.7.6.
Extended Content
5.
Exchanging Messages
5.1.
Attributes
5.1.1.
To Attribute
5.1.2.
Type Attribute
5.2.
Child Elements
5.2.1.
Body
5.2.2.
Subject
5.2.3.
Thread
5.3.
Extended Content
5.4.
One-to-One Chat Sessions
6.
Exchanging IQ Stanzas
7.
A Sample Session
8.
Server Rules for Processing XML Stanzas
8.1.
No Such User
8.2.
Full JID at Local Domain
8.2.1.
Available Resource Matches
8.2.2.
No Available Resource Matches
8.3.
Bare JID at Local Domain
8.3.1.
Available Resources
8.3.1.1.
Message
8.3.1.2.
Presence
8.3.1.3.
IQ
8.3.2.
No Available Resources
8.3.2.1.
Message
8.3.2.2.
Presence
8.3.2.3.
IQ
8.4.
Foreign Domain
9.
IM and Presence Compliance Requirements
9.1.
Servers
9.2.
Clients
10.
Internationalization Considerations
11.
Security Considerations
12.
IANA Considerations
12.1.
Instant Messaging SRV Protocol Label Registration
12.2.
Presence SRV Protocol Label Registration
13.
References
13.1.
Normative References
13.2.
Informative References
Appendix A.
Subscription States
A.1.
Defined States
A.2.
Server Processing of Outbound Presence Subscription Stanzas
A.2.1.
Subscribe
A.2.2.
Unsubscribe
A.2.3.
Subscribed
A.2.4.
Unsubscribed
A.3.
Server Processing of Inbound Presence Subscription Stanzas
A.3.1.
Subscribe
A.3.2.
Unsubscribe
A.3.3.
Subscribed
A.3.4.
Unsubscribed
Appendix B.
Blocking Communication
Appendix C.
vCards
Appendix D.
XML Schemas
D.1.
jabber:client
D.2.
jabber:server
D.3.
jabber:iq:roster
Appendix E.
Differences From RFC 3921
Appendix F.
Copying Conditions
§
Index
§
Author's Address
§
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements
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The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an application profile of the Extensible Markup Language [XML] (Paoli, J., Maler, E., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Yergeau, F., and T. Bray, “Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition),” August 2006.) for streaming XML data in close to real time between any two (or more) network-aware entities. XMPP is typically used to exchange messages, share presence information, and engage in structured request-response interactions. The core features of XMPP defined in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.) provide the building blocks for many types of near-real-time applications, which may be layered on top of the core by sending application-specific data qualified by particular XML namespaces (refer to [XML‑NAMES] (Bray, T., Hollander, D., and A. Layman, “Namespaces in XML,” January 1999.)). This document describes XMPP extensions that provide the basic functionality expected of an instant messaging (IM) and presence application as defined in [IMP‑REQS] (Day, M., Aggarwal, S., and J. Vincent, “Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements,” February 2000.).
This document obsoletes RFC 3921.
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Traditionally, instant messaging applications have combined the following factors:
Thus at a high level this document assumes that a user must be able to complete the following use cases:
Detailed definitions of these functionality areas are contained in RFC 2779 [IMP‑REQS] (Day, M., Aggarwal, S., and J. Vincent, “Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements,” February 2000.), and the interested reader is referred to that document regarding the requirements addressed herein. While the XMPP instant messaging and presence extensions specified herein meet the requirements of RFC 2779, they were not designed explicitly with that specification in mind, since the base protocol evolved through an open development process within the Jabber open-source community before RFC 2779 was written. Although XMPP protocol extensions addressing many other functionality areas have been defined in the XMPP Standards Foundation's XEP series (e.g., multi-user text chat as specified in [XEP‑0045] (Saint-Andre, P., “Multi-User Chat,” April 2007.)), such extensions are not specified in this document because they are not required by RFC 2779.
Note: RFC 2779 stipulates that presence services must be separable from instant messaging services and vice-versa; i.e., it must be possible to use the protocol to provide a presence service, an instant messaging service, or both. Although the text of this document assumes that implementations and deployments will want to offer a unified instant messaging and presence service, there is no requirement that a service must offer both a presence service and an instant messaging service, and the protocol makes it possible to offer separate and distinct services for presence and for instant messaging. (For example, a presence-only service could return a <service-unavailable/> error if a client attempt to send a <message/> stanzas.)
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This non-normative section provides a developer-friendly, functional summary of XMPP-based instant messaging and presence features; refer to the sections that follow for a normative definition of these features.
[XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.) specifies how an XMPP client connects to an XMPP server. In particular, it specifies the preconditions that must be fulfilled before a client is allowed to send XML stanzas (the basic unit of meaning in XMPP) to other entities on an XMPP network. These preconditions comprise negotiation of the XML stream and include XML stream establishment, optional channel encryption via Transport Layer Security [TLS] (Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, “The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1,” April 2006.), mandatory authentication via Simple Authentication and Security Layer [SASL] (Melnikov, A. and K. Zeilenga, “Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL),” June 2006.), and binding of a resource to the stream for client addressing. The reader is referred to [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.) for details regarding these preconditions, and knowledge of [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.) is assumed herein.
Upon fulfillment of the preconditions specified in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), an XMPP client has a long-lived XML stream with an XMPP server, which enables the user to send and receive a potentially unlimited number of XML stanzas over the stream. Such a stream can be used to exchange messages, share presence information, and engage in structured request-response interactions in close to real time. After negotiation of the XML stream, the typical flow for an instant messaging and presence session is as follows:
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This document inherits the terminology defined in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.).
The following keywords are to be interpreted as described in [TERMS] (Bradner, S., “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels,” March 1997.): "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED"; "MUST NOT", "SHALL NOT"; "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED"; "SHOULD NOT", "NOT RECOMMENDED"; "MAY", "OPTIONAL".
For convenience, this document employs the term "user" to refer to the owner of an XMPP account; however, account owners need not be human persons and may be bots, devices, or other non-human applications.
In examples, lines have been wrapped for improved readability, "[...]" means elision, and the following prepended strings are used:
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The editor welcomes discussion and comments related to the topics presented in this document. The preferred forum is the <standards@xmpp.org> mailing list, for which archives and subscription information are available at <http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards>.
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In XMPP, one's roster contains any number of specific contacts. A user's roster is stored by the user's server on the user's behalf so that the user may access roster information from any resource.
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Rosters are managed using IQ stanzas, specifically by means of a <query/> child element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace. The detailed syntax and semantics are defined in the following sections.
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The <query/> element MAY contain one or more <item/> children, each describing a unique roster item or "contact".
The syntax of the <item/> is as follows:
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A ROSTER GET is an IQ stanza of type "get" sent from client to server and containing a <query/> element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace.
The <query/> element in a roster get MUST NOT contain any <item/> child elements.
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='get' id='roster_get'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'/> </iq>
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A ROSTER SET is an IQ stanza of type "set" sent from client to server and containing a <query/> element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace.
The following rules apply to roster sets:
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='roster_set'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com'/> </query> </iq>
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A ROSTER PUSH is an IQ stanza of type "set" sent from server to client and containing a <query/> element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace.
The following rules apply to roster pushes:
S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='roster_push'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com'/> </query> </iq>
As required by the semantics of the IQ stanza as defined in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), each resource that receives a roster push MUST reply with an IQ stanza of type "result" (or "error").
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='result' id='a78b4q6ha463'/> C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='result' id='a78b4q6ha464'/>
Note: There is no error case for client replies to roster pushes, and if the server receives an IQ of type "error" in response to a roster push it SHOULD ignore the error.
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A ROSTER RESULT is an IQ stanza of type "result" sent from server to client and containing a <query/> element qualified by the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace.
The <query/> element in a roster result contains one <item/> element for each contact and therefore MAY contain more than one <item/> element.
S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='result' id='roster_result'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com'/> <item jid='romeo@example.net'/> </query> </iq>
If there are no contacts in the roster, the <query/> element MUST be empty.
S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='result' id='roster_result'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'/> </iq>
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The state of the presence subscription in relation to a roster item is captured in the 'subscription' attribute of the <item/> element. Allowable subscription-related values for this attribute are:
In a roster result, a receiving client MUST ignore values of the 'subscription' attribute other than "none", "to", "from", or "both".
In a roster push, a receiving client MUST ignore values of the 'subscription' attribute other than "none", "to", "from", "both", or "remove".
In a roster set, the value of the 'subscription' attribute MAY be "remove", which indicates that the item is to be removed from the roster; a receiving server MUST ignore all values of the 'subscription' attribute other than "remove".
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Upon authenticating with a server and binding a resource (thus becoming a connected resource), a client SHOULD request the roster before sending initial presence (however, because receiving the roster may not be desirable for all resources, e.g., a connection with limited bandwidth, the client's request for the roster is recommended and not required). After a connected resource sends initial presence (see Section 4.2 (Initial Presence)), it is referred to as an available resource. If a connected resource or available resource requests the roster, it is referred to as an INTERESTED RESOURCE. The server MUST send roster pushes to all interested resources.
Note: Presence subscription requests are sent to available resources, whereas the roster pushes associated with subscription state changes are sent to interested resources. Therefore if a resource wishes to receive both subscription requests and roster pushes, it MUST both send initial presence and request the roster.
A client requests the roster by sending a roster get over its stream to the server.
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='get' id='roster_1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'/> </iq>
S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='result' id='roster_1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' name='Romeo' subscription='both'> <group>Friends</group> </item> <item jid='mercutio@example.org' name='Mercutio' subscription='from'/> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='Nurse' subscription='to'/> <item jid='benvolio@example.org' name='Benvolio' subscription='both'/> </query> </iq>
If the server cannot process the roster get, it MUST return an appropriate stanza error as described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.) (such as <service-unavailable/> if the roster namespace is not supported or <internal-server-error/> if the server experiences trouble processing or returning the roster).
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At any time, a client may add an item to the roster by sending a roster set to the server.
Note: When the item added represents another IM user, the value of the 'jid' attribute MUST be a bare JID <contact@domain> rather a full JID <contact@domain/resource>, since the desired result is for the user to receive presence from all of the contact's resources, not merely the particular resource specified in the 'to' attribute.
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='roster_2'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='Nurse'> <group>Servants</group> </item> </query> </iq>
If the server can successfully process the roster set (i.e., if none of the error cases occurs), it MUST create the roster item in persistent storage and send a roster push containing the new roster item to all of the user's interested resources.
S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='a78b4q6ha463'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='Nurse' subscription='none'> <group>Servants</group> </item> </query> </iq> S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='a78b4q6ha464'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='Nurse' subscription='none'> <group>Servants</group> </item> </query> </iq>
The server MUST also return an IQ stanza of type "result" to the connected resource that sent the roster set.
S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='result' id='roster_2'/>
As required by the semantics of the IQ stanza as defined in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), each resource that receives a roster push MUST reply with an IQ stanza of type "result" (or "error").
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='result' id='a78b4q6ha463'/> C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='result' id='a78b4q6ha464'/>
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If the server cannot successfully process the roster set, it MUST return an error. The following error cases are defined (naturally, other stanza errors may occur, e.g., <internal-server-error/>).
The server SHOULD return a <bad-request/> error to the client if the roster set violates any of the following conditions:
The server SHOULD return a <not-acceptable/> error to the client if the roster set violates any of the following conditions:
Alternatively, the server MAY ignore the foregoing violations and process the roster set as best as possible (e.g., process only the first <item/> element, ignore duplicate <group/> elements, place the roster item in no group or a default group if the <group/> element is empty, and truncate 'name' attributes and <group/> elements that are too long).
Error: Roster set contains more than one item
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='roster_3'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='Nurse'> <group>Servants</group> </item> <item jid='mother@example.com' name='Mom'> <group>Family</group> </item> </query> </iq> S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='error' id='roster_3'> <error type='modify'> <bad-request xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> </error> </iq>
Error: Roster set contains item with oversized handle
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='roster_4'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='[ ... some-very-long-handle ... ]'> <group>Servants</group> </item> </query> </iq> S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='error' id='roster_4'> <error type='modify'> <not-acceptable xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> </error> </iq>
Error: Roster set contains duplicate groups
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='roster_5'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='Nurse'> <group>Servants</group> <group>Servants</group> </item> </query> </iq> S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='error' id='roster_5'> <error type='modify'> <bad-request xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> </error> </iq>
Error: Roster set contains empty group
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='roster_6'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='Nurse'> <group></group> </item> </query> </iq> S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='error' id='roster_6'> <error type='modify'> <not-acceptable xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> </error> </iq>
Error: Roster set contains oversized group
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='roster_7'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' name='Nurse'> <group>[ ... some-very-long-group-name ... ]</group> </item> </query> </iq> S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='error' id='roster_7'> <error type='modify'> <not-acceptable xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> </error> </iq>
The server MUST return a <not-allowed/> error to the client if the value of the <item/> element's 'jid' attribute matches the bare JID <node@domain> portion of the <iq/> element's 'from' attribute (i.e., a JID must not be allowed to add itself to its own roster).
Error: Roster set contains sender's JID
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='roster_8'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com'/> </query> </iq> S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='error' id='roster_8'> <error type='cancel'> <not-allowed xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> </error> </iq>
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Updating an existing roster item is done in the same way as adding a new roster item, i.e., by sending a roster set to the server. Because a roster item is atomic, the item shall be updated exactly as provided in the roster set.
There are several reasons why a client might update a roster item:
Consider a roster item that is defined as follows:
<item jid='romeo@example.net' name='Romeo'> <group>Friends</group> </item>
The user who has this item in her roster may want to add the item to another group.
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='update_1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' name='Romeo'> <group>Friends</group> <group>Lovers</group> </item> </query> </iq>
The user may then want to remove the item from the original group.
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='update_2'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' name='Romeo'> <group>Lovers</group> </item> </query> </iq>
The user may then want to change the handle for the item.
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='update_3'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' name='MyRomeo'> <group>Lovers</group> </item> </query> </iq>
The user may then want to remove the handle altogether (note: including an empty 'name' attribute is equivalent to including no 'name' attribute).
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='update_4'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' name=''> <group>Lovers</group> </item> </query> </iq>
The user may then want to remove the item from all groups.
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='update_5'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net'/> </query> </iq>
As with adding a roster item, when updating a roster item the server MUST update the roster information in persistent storage, send a roster push to all of the user's interested resources, and send an IQ result to the initiating resource; for details, see Section 2.3 (Adding a Roster Item).
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The error cases described under Section 2.3.2 (Error Cases) also apply to updating a roster item.
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At any time, a client may delete an item from his or her roster by sending a roster set and specifying the value of the 'subscription' attribute to be "remove".
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='delete_1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='nurse@example.com' subscription='remove'/> </query> </iq>
As with adding a roster item, if the server can successfully process the roster set then it MUST update the roster information in persistent storage, send a roster push to all of the user's interested resources (with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "remove"), and send an IQ result to the initiating resource; for details, see Section 2.3 (Adding a Roster Item).
The server MUST also generate a presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" and a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" from the user to the contact.
S: <presence from='juliet@example.com' to='nurse@example.com' type='unsubscribe'/> S: <presence from='juliet@example.com' to='nurse@example.com' type='unsubscribed'/>
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If the value of the 'jid' attribute specifies an item that is not in the roster, the server MUST return an <item-not-found/> error.
Error: Roster item not found
C: <iq from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='delete_2'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='[ ... non-existent-jid ... ]' subscription='remove'/> </query> </iq> S: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='error' id='delete_2'> <error type='modify'> <item-not-found xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> </error> </iq>
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In order to protect the privacy of instant messaging users, presence information is disclosed only to other entities that the user has approved. When a user has agreed that another entity may view its presence, the entity is said to have a SUBSCRIPTION to the user's presence. An entity that has a subscription to a user's presence or to which a user has a presence subscription is called a CONTACT (in this document the term "contact" is also used in less strict sense to refer to a potential contact or an item in a user's roster).
In XMPP, a subscription lasts across sessions; indeed, it lasts until the contact unsubscribes or the user cancels the previously-granted subscription.
Subscriptions are managed within XMPP by sending presence stanzas containing specially-defined attributes ("subscribe", "unsubscribe", "subscribed", and "unsubscribed").
Subscription states are reflected in the rosters of both the user and the contact. Complete details regarding these subscription states can be found Appendix A (Subscription States); those details are not provided in this section, which simply narrates the protocol flows for common use cases related to presence subscriptions.
Note: Presence subscription requests are sent to available resources, whereas the roster pushes associated with subscription state changes are sent to interested resources. Therefore if a resource wishes to receive both subscription requests and roster pushes, it MUST both send initial presence and request the roster.
Note: When a server processes or generates an outbound presence stanza of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST stamp the outgoing presence stanza with the bare JID <node@domain> of the sending entity, not the full JID <node@domain/resource>. Enforcement of this rule simplifies the presence subscription model and helps to prevent presence leaks; for information about presence leaks, refer to the security considerations of [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.).
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A SUBSCRIPTION REQUEST is a presence stanza whose 'type' attribute has a value of "subscribe". A subscription request is generated by a user's client, processed by the (potential) contact's server, and acted on by the contact via the contact's client. The workflow is described in the following sections.
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A user's client generates a subscription request by sending a presence stanza of type "subscribe" and specifying a 'to' address of the potential contact's bare JID <contact@domain>.
UC: <presence to='juliet@example.com' type='subscribe'/>
A user's client SHOULD NOT send a presence subscription to a full JID <contact@domain/resource>.
Typically the user's client prompts the user for information about the potential contact ("handle" and desired roster group) and generates a roster set with that information before sending the subscription request, but that behavior is recommended rather than required.
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As mentioned, the user's server MUST stamp the outbound subscription request with the bare JID <user@domain> of the user.
US: <presence from='romeo@example.net' to='juliet@example.com' type='subscribe'/>
Note: If the subscription request is directed to a full JID <contact@domain/resource> instead of a bare JID <contact@domain>, the user's server SHOULD treat it as if the request had been directed to the contact's bare JID and modify the 'to' address accordingly. This simplifies processing of presence subscriptions.
If the potential contact is hosted on the same server, the server MUST adhere to the rules specified in the next section in processing the subscription request and delivering it to the (local) contact.
If the potential contact is hosted on a different server, the user's server then routes the stanza to that foreign domain in accordance with core XMPP stanza processing rules.
The user's server MUST then send a roster push to all of the user's interested resources, containing the potential contact with a subscription state of "none" and with notation that the subscription is pending (via an 'ask' attribute whose value is "subscribe").
US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/foo' type='set' id='b89c5r7ib574'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com' subscription='none' ask='subscribe'/> </query> </iq> US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/bar' type='set' id='b89c5r7ib575'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com' subscription='none' ask='subscribe'/> </item> </query> </iq>
Note: Because the server must send this roster push, a client MAY simply wait for the roster push rather than proactively adding the contact to the user's roster before sending the subscription request.
Note: If the contact does not approve or deny the subscription request within some configurable amount of time, the user's server SHOULD re-send the subscription request to the contact based on an implementation-specific algorithm (e.g., whenever a new resource becomes available for the user, or after a certain amount of time has elapsed); this helps to recover from transient, silent errors that may have occurred in relation to the original subscription request.
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The contact's server MUST adhere to the following rules when processing the inbound subscription request:
CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com' to='romeo@example.net' type='unsubscribed'/>
Note: If the subscription request is directed to a full JID <contact@domain/resource> instead of a bare JID <contact@domain>, the contact's server SHOULD treat it as if the request had been directed to the contact's bare JID. This simplifies processing of presence subscriptions.
Note: Until and unless the contact approves the subscription request as described under Section 3.1.4 (Client Processing of Inbound Subscription Request), the contact's server MUST NOT add an item for the user to the contact's roster.
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When the contact's client receives a subscription request from the user, it MUST present the request to the contact for approval (unless the contact has explicitly configured the client to automatically approve or deny some or all subscription requests).
A subscription request is approved by sending a presence stanza of type "subscribed", which is processed as described in the following sections for both the contact's server and the user's server.
CC: <presence to='romeo@example.net' type='subscribed'/>
Note: Before approving a presence subscription, the contact MAY generate a roster set that includes a handle for the user and that places the user in one or more roster groups; see Section 2.3 (Adding a Roster Item).
A subscription request is denied by sending a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed", which is processed as described under Section 3.2 (Cancelling a Subscription) for both the contact's server and the user's server.
CC: <presence to='romeo@example.net' type='unsubscribed'/>
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When the contact's client sends the subscription approval, the contact's server MUST stamp the outbound stanza with the bare JID <contact@domain> of the contact and route or deliver the stanza to the user.
CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com' to='romeo@example.net' type='subscribed'/>
The contact's server then MUST send a roster push to all of the contact's interested resources.
CS: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='a78b4q6ha463'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' subscription='from'/> </query> </iq> CS: <iq to='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='a78b4q6ha464'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' subscription='from'/> </query> </iq>
The contact's server MUST then also send current presence to the user from each of the contact's available resources.
CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'/> CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/chamber' to='romeo@example.net'/>
From the perspective of the contact, there now exists a subscription from the user.
In order to subscribe to the user's presence, the contact would then send a subscription request to the user. (XMPP clients will often automatically send the subscription request instead of requiring the contact to initiate the subscription request, since it is assumed that the desired end state is a mutual subscription.) Naturally, when the contact sends a subscription request to the user, the subscription states will be different from those shown in the foregoing examples (see Appendix A (Subscription States)) and the roles will be reversed.
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When the user's server receives the subscription approval, it MUST first check if the contact is in the user's roster with a subscription='none' or subscription='from' and the 'ask' flag set to "subscribe" (i.e., a subscription states of "None + Pending Out" or "From + Pending Out"; see Appendix A (Subscription States)). If the contact is not in the user's roster with either of those states, the user's server MUST silently ignore the presence stanza of type "subscribed" (i.e., it MUST NOT route it to the user, modify the user's roster, or generate a roster push to the user's interested resources).
If the foregoing check is successful, the user's server MUST initiate a roster push to all of the user's interested resources, containing an updated roster item for the contact with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "to".
US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/foo' type='set' id='b89c5r7ib576'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com' subscription='to'/> </query> </iq> US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/bar' type='set' id='b89c5r7ib577'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com' subscription='to'/> </item> </query> </iq>
From the perspective of the user, there now exists a subscription to the contact's presence.
The user's server MUST also deliver the available presence stanza received from each of the contact's available resources to each of the user's available resources.
[ ... to resource1 ... ] US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'/> [ ... to resource2 ... ] US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'/> [ ... to resource1 ... ] US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/chamber' to='romeo@example.net'/> [ ... to resource2 ... ] US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/chamber' to='romeo@example.net'/>
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If a contact would like to cancel a subscription that it has previously granted to a user (or deny a subscription request), it sends a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed".
CC: <presence to='romeo@example.net' type='unsubscribed'/>
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As mentioned, the contact's server MUST stamp the outbound subscription cancellation with the bare JID <contact@domain> of the contact.
CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com' to='romeo@example.net' type='unsubscribed'/>
If the user is hosted on the same server, the server MUST adhere to the rules specified in the next section when processing the subscription cancellation.
If the user is hosted on a different server, the contact's server then routes the stanza to that foreign domain in accordance with core XMPP stanza processing rules.
If the user is in the contact's roster, the contact's server then MUST send a roster push with the updated roster item to all of the contact's interested resources, where the subscription state is now either "none" or "to" (see Appendix A (Subscription States)).
CS: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='a78b4q6ha465'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' subscription='none'/> </query> </iq> CS: <iq to='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='a78b4q6ha466'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' subscription='none'/> </query> </iq>
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When the user's server receives the inbound subscription cancellation, it MUST modify the subscription state and send a roster push to the user's interested resources, where the subscription state is now either "none" or "from" (see Appendix A (Subscription States)).
US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/foo' type='set' id='h37h3u1bv400'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com' subscription='none'/> </query> </iq> US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/bar' type='set' id='h37h3u1bv401'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com' subscription='none'/> </item> </query> </iq>
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If a user would like to unsubscribe from a contact's presence, it sends a presence stanza of type "unsubscribe".
UC: <presence to='juliet@example.com' type='unsubscribe'/>
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As mentioned, the user's server MUST stamp the outbound unsubscribe with the bare JID <user@domain> of the user.
US: <presence from='romeo@example.net' to='juliet@example.com' type='unsubscribe'/>
If the contact is hosted on the same server, the server MUST adhere to the rules specified in the next section when processing the unsubscribe.
If the contact is hosted on a different server, the user's server then routes the stanza to that foreign domain in accordance with core XMPP stanza processing rules.
The user's server then MUST send a roster push with the updated roster item to all of the user's interested resources, where the subscription state is now either "none" or "from" (see Appendix A (Subscription States)).
US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/foo' type='set' id='h37h3u1bv402'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com' subscription='none'/> </query> </iq> US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/bar' type='set' id='h37h3u1bv403'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='juliet@example.com' subscription='none'/> </item> </query> </iq>
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When the contact's server receives the inbound unsubscribe, it MUST modify the subscription state and send a roster push to the contact's interested resources, where the subscription state is now either "none" or "to" (see Appendix A (Subscription States)).
CS: <iq to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='set' id='a78b4q6ha467'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' subscription='none'/> </query> </iq> CS: <iq to='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='set' id='a78b4q6ha468'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.net' subscription='none'/> </query> </iq>
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The concept of presence refers to an entity's availability for communication over a network. At the most basic level, presence is a boolean "on/off" variable that signals whether an entity is available or unavailable for communication (the terms "online" and "offline" are also used). In XMPP, a principal's availability is signalled when a client controlled by the principal generates a <presence/> stanza with no 'type' attribute, and an entity's lack of availability is signalled when a client generates a <presence/> stanza whose 'type' attribute has a value of "unavailable". In XMPP-based applications that combine messaging and presence functionality, the default type of communication for which presence signals availability is messaging; however, XMPP-based applications are not required to combine messaging and presence functionality, and can provide standalone presence features without messaging (in addition, XMPP servers do not require information about network availability in order to successfully route message and IQ stanzas).
XMPP presence typically follows a "publish-subscribe" or "observer" pattern, wherein an entity sends presence to its server, and its server then broadcasts that information to all of the entity's contacts who have a subscription to the entity's presence (in the terminology of [IMP‑MODEL] (Day, M., Rosenberg, J., and H. Sugano, “A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging,” February 2000.), an entity that generates presence is a "presentity" and the entities that receive presence are "subscribers"). A client generates presence for broadcasting to all subscribed entities by sending a presence stanza to its server with no 'to' address, where the presence stanza has either no 'type' attribute or a 'type' attribute whose value is "unavailable". This kind of presence is called BROADCASTED PRESENCE. (A client MAY also send DIRECTED PRESENCE, i.e., a presence stanza with a 'to' address; this is less common but is sometimes used to send presence to entities that are not subscribed to the principal's presence; see Section 4.6 (Directed Presence).)
After a client completes the preconditions specified in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), it can establish a PRESENCE SESSION at its server by sending initial presence (Initial Presence). Such a presence session is terminated by sending unavailable presence (Unavailable Presence).
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After completing the preconditions described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.) (REQUIRED) and requesting the roster (RECOMMENDED), a client SHOULD signal its availability for communication by sending INITIAL PRESENCE to its server, i.e., a presence stanza with no 'to' address (indicating that it is meant to be broadcasted by the server on behalf of the client) and no 'type' attribute (indicating the user's availability). After sending initial presence, a connected resource (in the terminology of [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.)) is said to be an AVAILABLE RESOURCE.
UC: <presence/>
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Upon receiving initial presence from a client, the user's server MUST send the initial presence stanza from the full JID <user@domain/resource> of the user to all contacts that are subscribed to the user's presence; such contacts are those for which a JID is present in the user's roster with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "from" or "both".
Note: In the following examples, the "user" is juliet@example.com and the user has three contacts in her roster with a subscription state of "from" or "both": romeo@example.net, mercutio@example.com, and benvolio@example.com.
US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'/> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='mercutio@example.com'/> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='benvolio@example.com'/>
The user's server MUST also broadcast initial presence from the user's newly available resource to all of the user's available resources.
US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='juliet@example.com/balcony'/> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='juliet@example.com/chamber'/>
In the absence of presence information about the user's contacts, the user's server SHOULD also send presence probes to the user's contacts on behalf of the user as specified under Section 4.3 (Presence Probes).
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Upon receiving presence from the user, the contact's server MUST deliver the user's presence stanza to all of the contact's available resources.
[ ... to resource1 ... ] CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'/> [ ... to resource2 ... ] CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'/>
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When the contact's client receives presence from the user and the user is in the contact's roster, it SHOULD display the presence information in an appropriate roster interface.
If the user is not in the contact's roster but the contact and the user are actively exchanging message or IQ stanzas, the contact's client SHOULD display the presence information in the user interface for that chat session (see also Section 4.6 (Directed Presence) and Section 5.4 (One-to-One Chat Sessions)).
Otherwise, the client SHOULD ignore the presence information and not display it to the contact.
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A PRESENCE PROBE is a presence stanza whose 'type' attribute has a value of "probe". The value of the 'from' address SHOULD be the full JID <user@domain/resource> of the probing user and the value of the 'to' address SHOULD be the bare JID <contact@domain> of the contact whose availability the user wants to discover.
US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='probe'/>
A presence probe SHOULD NOT be sent by a client. Instead, it is designed to be sent by a user's server on the user's behalf in order to discover the availability of the user's contacts.
If a server receives a presence probe intended for a full JID <contact@domain/resource>, it SHOULD treat the probe as if the 'to' address was a bare JID, but MAY instead handle it on behalf of the connected resource by returning only the presence information for that particular resources (and in any case MUST NOT deliver it to the resource).
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When a server needs to discover the availability of a user's contact, it SHOULD send a presence probe from the full JID <user@domain/resource> of the user to the bare JID <contact@domain> of the contact. The server SHOULD send a probe to a contact only if the contact is in the user's roster with the 'subscription' attribute set to a value of "to" or "both" (i.e., if the user is subscribed to the contact's presence).
The user's server SHOULD send a presence probe whenever the user starts a new presence session by sending initial presence; however, the server MAY choose not to send the probe at that point if it has what it deems to be reliable and up-to-date presence information about the user's contacts (e.g., because the user has another available resource or because the user briefly logged off and on before the new presence session began). In addition, a server MAY periodically send a presence probe to a contact if it has not received presence information or other traffic from the contact in some configurable amount of time; this can help to prevent "ghost" contacts who appear to be online but in fact are not.
US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='probe'/> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='benvolio@example.com' type='probe'/> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='nurse@example.com' type='probe'/>
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Upon receiving a presence probe from the user's server on behalf of the user, the contact's server SHOULD reply as follows:
CS: <presence from='mercutio@example.com' to='juliet@example.com' type='unsubscribed'/>
CS: <presence from='romeo@example.net/foo' to='juliet@example.com'/> CS: <presence from='romeo@example.net/bar' to='juliet@example.com'> <show>away</show> </presence>
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After sending initial presence, the user's client may update its availability for broadcasting at any time during its session by sending a presence stanza with no 'to' address and no 'type' attribute.
UC: <presence> <show>away</show> </presence>
Note: A user SHOULD NOT send a presence update to broadcast information that changes independently of the user's availability for communication.
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Upon receiving a presence stanza expressing updated availability, the user's server MUST broadcast the full XML of that presence stanza to the contacts who meet all of the following criteria:
As an optimization, if the subscription type is "both", the server MAY send subsequent presence notifications to a contact only if the contact is online according to the user's server. That is, if the user's server never received a positive indication that the contact is online in response to the presence probe it sent to the contact or if the last presence stanza received from the contact during the user's presence session was of type "unavailable", the user's server MAY opt not to send subsequent presence notifications from the user to the contact.
US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'> <show>away</show> </presence> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='benvolio@example.com'> <show>away</show> </presence> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='mercutio@example.com'> <show>away</show> </presence>
The user's server MUST also send the presence stanza to all of the user's available resources.
US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='juliet@example.com/chamber'> <show>away</show> </presence> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='juliet@example.com/balcony'> <show>away</show> </presence>
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Upon receiving presence from the user, the contact's server MUST deliver the user's presence stanza to all of the contact's available resources.
[ ... to resource1 ... ] CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'> <show>away</show> </presence> [ ... to resource2 ... ] CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net'> <show>away</show> </presence>
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When the contact's client receives presence from the user and the user is in the contact's roster, it SHOULD display the presence information in an appropriate roster interface.
If the user is not in the contact's roster but the contact and the user are actively exchanging message or IQ stanzas, the contact's client SHOULD display the presence information in the user interface for that chat session (see also Section 4.6 (Directed Presence) and Section 5.4 (One-to-One Chat Sessions)).
Otherwise, the client SHOULD ignore the presence information and not display it to the contact.
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Before ending its presence session with a server, the user's client SHOULD gracefully become unavailable by sending UNAVAILABLE PRESENCE, i.e., a presence stanza that possesses no 'to' attribute and that possesses a 'type' attribute whose value is "unavailable".
UC: <presence type='unavailable'/>
Optionally, the final presence stanza MAY contain one or more <status/> elements specifying the reason why the user is no longer available.
US: <presence type='unavailable'> <status>going on vacation</status> </presence>
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The user's server MUST NOT depend on receiving unavailable presence from an available resource, since the resource may become unavailable ungracefully (e.g., the resource may be timed out by the server because of inactivity).
If an available resource becomes unavailable for any reason (either gracefully or ungracefully), the user's server MUST broadcast unavailable presence to all contacts that meet all of the following criteria:
As an optimization, if the subscription type is "both", the server MAY send the unavailable presence notification to a contact only if the contact is online according to the user's server. That is, if the user's server never received a positive indication that the contact is online in response to the presence probe it sent to the contact or if the last presence stanza received from the contact during the user's presence session was of type "unavailable", the user's server MAY opt not to send the unavailable presence notification from the user to the contact.
See Section 4.6 (Directed Presence) regarding rules that supplement the foregoing.
If the unavailable presence stanza was gracefully received from the client, the server MUST broadcast the full XML of the presence stanza.
US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='unavailable'/> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='benvolio@example.com' type='unavailable'/> US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='mercutio@example.com' type='unavailable'/>
The user's server MUST also send the unavailable presence stanza to all of the user's remaining available resources.
US: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='unavailable'/>
Note: Any presence stanza with no 'type' attribute and no 'to' attribute that is sent after sending broadcasted unavailable presence MUST be broadcasted by the server to all subscribers (i.e., MUST be treated as equivalent to "initial presence" for a new presence session).
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Upon receiving unavailable presence from the user, the contact's server MUST deliver the user's presence stanza to all of the contact's available resources.
[ ... to resource1 ... ] CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='unavailable'/> [ ... to resource2 ... ] CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='unavailable'/>
If the server is optimizing subsequent presence delivery as described under Section 4.4 (Subsequent Presence Broadcast), it SHOULD also note that the user is unavailable and appropriately update its internal representation of which users are online.
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When the contact's client receives unavailable presence from the user and the user is in the contact's roster, it SHOULD display the unavailable presence information in an appropriate roster interface.
If the user is not in the contact's roster but the contact and the user are actively exchanging message or IQ stanzas, the contact's client SHOULD display the unavailable presence information in the user interface for that chat session (see also Section 4.6 (Directed Presence) and Section 5.4 (One-to-One Chat Sessions)).
Otherwise, the client SHOULD ignore the unavailable presence information and not display it to the contact.
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This section supplements and in some respects modifies the rules defined above, but only for the special case of directed presence.
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As noted, directed presence is a presence stanza with a 'to' attribute whose value is the bare JID or full JID of the other entity and with either no 'type' attribute (indicating availability) or a 'type' attribute whose value is "unavailable".
Information about the use of directed presence in the context of a one-to-one chat session is provided under Section 5.4 (One-to-One Chat Sessions).
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When the user's server receives the directed presence stanza, it SHOULD process it according to the following rules.
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From the perspective of the contact's server, there is no difference between broadcasted presence and directed presence, so the contact's server follows the existing rules for processing of inbound presence.
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When the contact's client receives presence from the user and the user is in the contact's roster, it SHOULD display the presence information in an appropriate roster interface.
If the user is not in the contact's roster but the contact and the user are actively exchanging message or IQ stanzas, the contact's client SHOULD display the presence information in an appropriate user interface.
Otherwise, the client SHOULD ignore the presence information and not display it to the contact.
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The absence of a 'type' attribute signals that the relevant entity is available for communication (see Section 4.2 (Initial Presence) and Section 4.4 (Subsequent Presence Broadcast)).
A 'type' attribute with a value of "unavailable" signals that the relevant entity is not available for communication (see Section 4.5 (Unavailable Presence)).
The XMPP presence stanza is also used to negotiate and manage subscriptions to the presence of other entities. These tasks are completed via presence stanzas of type "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "subscribed", and "unsubscribed" as described under Section 3 (Managing Presence Subscriptions).
If a user and contact are associated with different XMPP servers, those servers also use a special presence stanza of type "probe" in order to determine the availability of the entity on the peer server; for details, see Section 4.3 (Presence Probes). Clients SHOULD NOT send presence stanzas of type "probe".
The values of the 'type' attribute can be summarized as follows:
If the value of the 'type' attribute is not one of the foregoing values, the recipient or an intermediate router SHOULD return a stanza error of <bad-request/>.
Note: There is no default value for the 'type' attribute of the <presence/> element. Therefore if the intended recipient or intermediate router receives a <presence/> element whose 'type' value is undefined, it SHOULD return a stanza error of <bad-request/>.
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In accordance with the default namespace declaration, a presence stanza is qualified by the 'jabber:client' or 'jabber:server' namespace, which defines certain allowable children of presence stanzas, in particular the <show/>, <status/>, and <priority/> elements. These child elements are used to provide more detailed information about an entity's availability. Typically these child elements are provided only if the presence stanza possesses no 'type' attribute, although exceptions are noted in the text that follows.
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The OPTIONAL <show/> element specifies the particular availability sub-state of an entity or a specific resource thereof. A presence stanza MUST NOT contain more than one <show/> element. The <show/> element MUST NOT possess any attributes. The XML character data of the <show/> element is not human-readable. The XML character data MUST be one of the following (additional availability states could be defined through a properly-namespaced child element of the presence stanza):
If no <show/> element is provided, the entity is assumed to be online and available.
Any specialized processing of availability states by recipients and intermediate routers is up to the implementation (e.g., incorporation of availability states into server routing and delivery logic).
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The OPTIONAL <status/> element contains human-readable XML character data specifying a natural-language description of an entity's availability. It is normally used in conjunction with the show element to provide a detailed description of an availability state (e.g., "In a meeting") when the presence stanza has no 'type' attribute.
<presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' xml:lang='en'> <show>dnd</show> <status>Wooing Juliet</status> </presence>
The <status/> element MUST NOT possess any attributes, with the exception of the 'xml:lang' attribute. Multiple instances of the <status/> element MAY be included, but only if each instance possesses an 'xml:lang' attribute with a distinct language value (either explicitly or by inheritance from the 'xml:lang' value of an element farther up in the XML hierarchy, which may include the XML stream header as described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.)).
<presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' xml:lang='en'> <show>dnd</show> <status>Wooing Juliet</status> <status xml:lang='cs'>Dvořím se Julii</status> </presence>
A presence stanza of type "unavailable" MAY also include a <status/> element to provide detailed information about why the entity is going offline.
<presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' type='unavailable'> <status>Busy IRL</status> </presence>
The <status/> child MAY also be sent in a subscription-related presence stanza (i.e., type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed") to provide a description of the action. The receiving client MAY present this <status/> to a human user (see Section 11 (Security Considerations)).
<presence from='romeo@example.net' to='nurse@example.com' type='subscribe'> <status>Hi, Juliet said I should add you to my buddy list.</status> </presence>
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The OPTIONAL <priority/> element contains non-human-readable XML character data that specifies the priority level of the resource. The value MUST be an integer between -128 and +127. A presence stanza MUST NOT contain more than one <priority/> element. The <priority/> element MUST NOT possess any attributes.
<presence xml:lang='en'> <show>dnd</show> <status>Wooing Juliet</status> <status xml:lang='cs'>Dvořím se Julii</status> <priority>1</priority> </presence>
If no priority is provided, the processing server or client SHOULD consider the priority to be zero.
For information regarding the semantics of priority values in stanza processing within instant messaging and presence applications, refer to Server Rules for Processing XML Stanzas (Server Rules for Processing XML Stanzas).
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As described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), an XML stanza MAY contain any properly-namespaced child element; this applies to the presence stanza as well.
(In the following example, the presence stanza includes entity capabilities information as defined in [XEP‑0115] (Hildebrand, J., Saint-Andre, P., and R. Tronçon, “Entity Capabilities,” August 2007.)).)
<presence from='romeo@example.net'> <c xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/caps' node='http://psi-im.org/caps' ver='0.11'/> </presence>
Any extended content included in a presence stanza SHOULD represent aspects of an entity's availability for communication or provide information about communication-related capabilities.
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Once a client has authenticated with a server and bound a resource to an XML stream as described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), an XMPP server will route XML stanzas to and from that client (if, that is, messaging functionality is enabled and the server is not a presence-only service). One kind of stanza that may be exchanged is <message/>. Exchanging messages is a basic use of XMPP and occurs when a user generates a message stanza that is addressed to another entity. As defined under Server Rules for Processing XML Stanzas (Server Rules for Processing XML Stanzas), the sender's server is responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient (if the recipient is on the same server) or for routing the message to the recipient's server (if the recipient is on a different server). Thus a message stanza is used to "push" information to another entity.
As noted under Section 4.6 (Directed Presence), if a user exchanges messages with another entity but does not share presence with the entity based on a presence subscription, it is RECOMMENDED for the user's client to send directed presence to the other entity.
The following sections describe the syntax of the <message/> stanza.
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An instant messaging client SHOULD specify an intended recipient for a message by providing the JID of an entity other than the sender in the 'to' attribute of the <message/> stanza.
If the message is being sent outside the context of any existing chat session or received message, the value of the 'to' address SHOULD be of the form <user@domain> rather than of the form <user@domain/resource>.
<message from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?</body> </message>
If the message is being sent in reply to a message previously received from an address of the form <user@domain/resource> (e.g., within the context of a chat session), the value of the 'to' address SHOULD be of the form <user@domain/resource> rather than of the form <user@domain> unless the sender has knowledge (via presence) that the intended recipient's resource is no longer available.
<message from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.</body> </message>
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Common uses of the message stanza in instant messaging applications include single messages, messages sent in the context of a chat conversation, messages sent in the context of a multi-user chat room, headlines and other alerts, and errors. These uses are differentiated via the 'type' attribute. Inclusion of the 'type' attribute is RECOMMENDED. If included, the 'type' attribute MUST have one of the following values:
An IM application SHOULD support all of the foregoing message types. If an application receives a message with no 'type' attribute or the application does not understand the value of the 'type' attribute provided, it MUST consider the message to be of type "normal" (i.e., "normal" is the default).
Although the 'type' attribute is OPTIONAL, it is considered polite to mirror the type in any replies to a message; furthermore, some specialized applications (e.g., a multi-user chat service) MAY at their discretion enforce the use of a particular message type (e.g., type='groupchat').
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An XMPP message stanza MAY contain any allowable child elements qualified by the 'jabber:client' (or 'jabber:server') namespace, as well as any other properly-namespaced child element that consists of extended content. The defined payloads are described in the following sections and extended content payloads are described in the appropriate XMPP extension specifications (not herein).
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The <body/> element contains human-readable XML character data that specifies the textual contents of the message; this child element is normally included but is OPTIONAL.
<message to='romeo@example.net' from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Wherefore art thou, Romeo?</body> </message>
The <body/> element MUST NOT possess any attributes, with the exception of the 'xml:lang' attribute. Multiple instances of the <body/> element MAY be included in a message stanza, but only if each instance possesses an 'xml:lang' attribute with a distinct language value (either explicitly or by inheritance from the 'xml:lang' value of an element farther up in the XML hierarchy, which may include the XML stream header as described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.)).
<message to='romeo@example.net' from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Wherefore art thou, Romeo?</body> <body xml:lang='cs'> PročeŽ jsi ty, Romeo? </body> </message>
The <body/> element MUST NOT contain mixed content (as defined in Section 3.2.2 of [XML] (Paoli, J., Maler, E., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Yergeau, F., and T. Bray, “Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition),” August 2006.)).
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The <subject/> element contains human-readable XML character data that specifies the topic of the message.
<message to='romeo@example.net' from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <subject>I implore you!</subject> <body>Wherefore art thou, Romeo?</body> </message>
The <subject/> element MUST NOT possess any attributes, with the exception of the 'xml:lang' attribute. Multiple instances of the <subject/> element MAY be included for the purpose of providing alternate versions of the same subject, but only if each instance possesses an 'xml:lang' attribute with a distinct language value (either explicitly or by inheritance from the 'xml:lang' value of an element farther up in the XML hierarchy, which may include the XML stream header as described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.)).
<message to='romeo@example.net' from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <subject>I implore you!</subject> <subject xml:lang='cs'> Úpěnlivě prosím! </subject> <body>Wherefore art thou, Romeo?</body> <body xml:lang='cs'> Pročež jsi ty, Romeo? </body> </message>
The <subject/> element MUST NOT contain mixed content (as defined in Section 3.2.2 of [XML] (Paoli, J., Maler, E., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Yergeau, F., and T. Bray, “Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition),” August 2006.)).
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The primary use of the XMPP <thread/> element is to uniquely identify a conversation thread or "chat session" between two entities instantiated by <message/> stanzas of type 'chat'. However, the XMPP <thread/> element may also be used to uniquely identify an analogous thread between two entities instantiated by <message/> stanzas of type 'headline' or 'normal', or among multiple entities in the context of a multi-user chat room instantiated by <message/> stanzas of type 'groupchat'. It may also be used for <message/> stanzas not related to a conversation, such as a game session or between plugins. The <thread/> element is not used to identify individual messages, only conversations.
The inclusion of the <thread/> element is OPTIONAL. Because the <thread/> element uniquely identifies the particular conversation thread to which a message belongs, a message stanza MUST NOT contain more than one <thread/> element.
The value of the <thread/> element is not human-readable and MUST be treated as opaque by entities; no semantic meaning may be derived from it, and only exact comparisons may be made against it. The value of the <thread/> element MUST be a universally unique identifier (UUID) as described in [UUID] (Leach, P., Mealling, M., and R. Salz, “A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace,” July 2005.).
The <thread/> element MAY possess a 'parent' attribute that identifies another thread of which the current thread is an offshoot or child; the value of the 'parent' MUST conform to the syntax of the <thread/> element itself. The <thread/> element MUST NOT contain mixed content (as defined in Section 3.2.2 of [XML] (Paoli, J., Maler, E., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Yergeau, F., and T. Bray, “Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition),” August 2006.)).
<message to='romeo@example.net' from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <subject>I implore you!</subject> <subject xml:lang='cs'> Úpěnlivě prosím! </subject> <body>Wherefore art thou, Romeo?</body> <body xml:lang='cs'> Pročež jsi ty, Romeo? </body> <thread parent='e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38'> 0e3141cd80894871a68e6fe6b1ec56fa </thread> </message>
For detailed recommendations regarding use of the <thread/> element, refer to [XEP‑0201] (Saint-Andre, P., Paterson, I., and K. Smith, “Best Practices for Message Threads,” August 2007.).
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As described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), an XML stanza MAY contain any properly-namespaced child element; this applies to the message stanza as well.
(In the following example, the message stanza includes an XHTML-formatted version of the message as defined in [XEP‑0071] (Saint-Andre, P., “XHTML-IM,” August 2007.)).)
<message to='romeo@example.net' from='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Wherefore art thou, Romeo?</body> <html xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/xhtml-im'> <body xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> Wherefore <span style='font-style: italic'>art</span> thou, <span style='color:red'>Romeo</span>? </body> </html> </message>
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In practice, instant messaging activity between human users tends to occur in form of a conversational burst that we call a CHAT SESSION: the exchange of at least several messages between two parties in relatively rapid succession within a relatively brief period of time.
When a human user intends to engage in such a chat session with a contact (rather than sending a single message to which no reply is expected), the user's client SHOULD send a message of type "chat" and the contact's client SHOULD preserve that message type in subsequent replies. The user's client also SHOULD include a <thread/> element on its initial message, which the contact's client SHOULD also preserve during the life of the chat session.
The user's client MUST address the initial message in a chat session to the bare JID <contact@domain> (rather than attempting to guess an appropriate full JID <contact@domain/resource>). Until and unless the user's client receives a reply from the contact, it MUST continue sending any further messages to the contact's bare JID. The contact's client SHOULD address its subsequent replies to the user's full JID <user@domain/resource> as provided in the 'from' address of the initial message. Once the user's client receives a reply from the contact's full JID, it SHOULD address its subsequent messages to the contact's full JID as provided in the 'from' address of the contact's replies.
If a user exchanges messages with a contact but the user does not normally share presence with the contact via a presence subscription, it is RECOMMENDED for the user's client to send directed presence to the contact, subject to user approval (either explicitly for this contact or implicitly via a configuration setting). If a client supports this feature, it MUST allow the user to disable the feature in order to prevent presence sharing with unknown entities.
An example of a chat session as described above is provided under Section 7 (A Sample Session).
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As described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), IQ stanzas provide a structured request-response mechanism. The basic semantics of that mechanism (e.g., that the 'id' attribute is required) are defined in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.), whereas the specific semantics required to complete particular use cases are defined in all cases by the extended namespace that qualifies the direct child element of an IQ stanza of type "get" or "set". The 'jabber:client' and 'jabber:server' namespaces do not define any children of IQ stanzas other than the <error/> common to all stanza types. This document defines one such extended namespace, for Managing the Roster (Managing the Roster). However, an IQ stanza MAY contain structured information qualified by any extended namespace.
As noted under Section 4.6 (Directed Presence), if a user exchanges IQ stanzas with another entity but does not share presence with the entity based on a presence subscription, it is RECOMMENDED for the user's client to send directed presence to the other entity.
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The examples in this section illustrate a possible instant messaging and presence session. The user is romeo@example.net, he has an available resource whose resource identifier is "orchard", and he has the following individuals in his roster:
First, the user completes the preconditions (stream establishment, TLS and SASL negotiation, and resource binding) described in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.); those protocol flows are not reproduced here.
Next, the user requests his roster.
Example 1: User requests current roster from server:
UC: <iq from='romeo@example.net/balcony' type='get' id='ex1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'/> </iq>
Example 2: User receives roster from server:
US: <iq to='romeo@example.net/balcony' type='result' id='ex1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'> <item jid='romeo@example.com' name='Juliet' subscription='both'> <group>Friends</group> </item> <item jid='benvolio@example.org' name='Benvolio' subscription='to'/> <item jid='mercutio@example.org' name='Mercutio' subscription='from'/> </query> </iq>
Now the user begins a presence session.
Example 3: User sends initial presence:
UC: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard'/>
Example 4: User's server sends presence probes to contacts with subscription="to" and subscription="both" on behalf of the user's available resource:
US: <presence type='probe' from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com'/> US: <presence type='probe' from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='benvolio@example.org'/>
Example 5: User's server sends initial presence to contacts with subscription="from" and subscription="both" on behalf of the user's available resource:
US: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com'/> US: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='mercutio@example.org'/>
Example 6: Contacts' servers reply to presence probe on behalf of all available resources:
CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net/orchard' xml:lang='en'> <show>away</show> <status>be right back</status> <priority>0</priority> </presence> CS: <presence from='juliet@example.com/chamber' to='romeo@example.net/orchard'> <priority>1</priority> </presence> CS: <presence from='benvolio@example.org/pda' to='romeo@example.net/orchard' xml:lang='en'> <show>dnd</show> <status>gallivanting</status> </presence>
Example 7: Contacts' servers deliver user's initial presence to all available resources or return unsubscribed to user:
CS: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com'/> CS: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com'/> CS: <presence from='mercutio@example.org' to='romeo@example.net' type='unsubscribed'/>
Example 8: User sends directed presence to another user not in his roster:
UC: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='nurse@example.com' xml:lang='en'> <show>dnd</show> <status>courting Juliet</status> <priority>0</priority> </presence>
Now the user has a chat session with one of his contacts.
Example 9: A threaded conversation
CC: <message from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words</body> <thread>e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38</thread> </message> CC: <message from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:</body> <thread>e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38</thread> </message> CC: <message from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?</body> <thread>e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38</thread> </message> UC: <message from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com/balcony' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.</body> <thread>e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38</thread> </message> CC: <message from='juliet@example.com/balcony' to='romeo@example.net/orchard' type='chat' xml:lang='en'> <body>How cam'st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?</body> <thread>e0ffe42b28561960c6b12b944a092794b9683a38</thread> </message>
And so on.
The user can also send subsequent broadcasted presence.
Example 10: User sends updated available presence for broadcasting:
UC: <presence xml:lang='en'> <show>away</show> <status>I shall return!</status> <priority>1</priority> </presence>
Example 11: User's server broadcasts updated presence only to one contact:
US: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com' xml:lang='en'> <show>away</show> <status>I shall return!</status> <priority>1</priority> </presence>
Example 12: Contact's server delivers updated presence to all of the contact's available resources ("balcony" and "chamber"):
CS: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com' xml:lang='en'> <show>away</show> <status>I shall return!</status> <priority>1</priority> </presence> CS: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com' xml:lang='en'> <show>away</show> <status>I shall return!</status> <priority>1</priority> </presence>
Example 13: One of the contact's resources broadcasts unavailable presence:
CC: <presence from='juliet@example.com/chamber' type='unavailable'/>
Example 14: Contact's server sends unavailable presence to user:
CS: <presence type='unavailable' from='juliet@example.com/chamber' to='romeo@example.net'/>
Now the user ends his presence session.
Example 15: User sends unavailable presence:
UC: <presence from='romeo@example.net/orchard' type='unavailable' xml:lang='en'> <status>gone home</status> </presence>
Example 16: User's server broadcasts unavailable presence to contact as well as to the person to whom the user sent directed presence:
US: <presence type='unavailable' from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='juliet@example.com' xml:lang='en'> <status>gone home</status> </presence> US: <presence type='unavailable' from='romeo@example.net/orchard' to='nurse@example.com' xml:lang='en'> <status>gone home</status> </presence>
Finally the user closes his stream and the server responds in kind.
Example 17: User closes stream:
UC: </stream:stream>
Example 18: User's server closes stream:
US: </stream:stream>
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Basic server rules for processing XML stanzas are defined in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.). This section defines supplementary rules for XMPP instant messaging and presence servers; in the absence of a supplementary rule defined below (e.g., for stanzas without a 'to' address), the rule defined in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.) shall apply.
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If the user account does not exist, how the stanza shall be processed depends on the stanza type.
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If the hostname of the domain identifier portion of the JID contained in the 'to' attribute of an inbound stanza matches one of the configured hostnames of the server itself and the JID contained in the 'to' attribute is of the form <user@domain/resource>, the server MUST adhere to the following rules.
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If an available resource exactly matches the full JID, the recipient's server MUST deliver the stanza to that resource (subject to appropriate security policies as described under Section 11 (Security Considerations) and in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.)).
However, for IQ stanzas of type "get" or "set", if the intended recipient does not share presence with the requesting entity either by means of a presence subscription of type "both" or "from" or by means of directed presence, then the server SHOULD NOT deliver the IQ stanza but instead SHOULD return a <service-unavailable/> stanza error to the requesting entity. This policy helps to prevent presence leaks (see Section 11 (Security Considerations)).
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If no connected or available resource exactly matches the full JID, how the stanza shall be processed depends on the stanza type.
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If the hostname of the domain identifier portion of the JID contained in the 'to' attribute of an inbound stanza matches one of the configured hostnames of the server itself and the JID contained in the 'to' attribute is of the form <user@domain>, the server MUST adhere to the following rules.
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If there is at least one available resource, how the stanza shall be processed depends on the stanza type.
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For a message stanza of type "headline", the server SHOULD deliver the stanza to all available resources.
For a message stanza of type "chat", "error", "groupchat", or "normal", the server SHOULD deliver the stanza to the highest-priority available resource. If there is not one highest-priority available resource but instead the highest priority is asserted by two or more available resources, these resources are said to form a "delivery tie". In the case of a delivery tie, a server SHOULD deliver the message to all of the tied resources. However, before delivering the message, a server MAY remove one or more resources from the tie. Methods for doing so are outside the scope of this specification, but could include factors such as the resource's time of connection, time of last network or application activity, availability as determined by some hierarchy of <show/> values, or user-configured rules. Nevertheless, a server MUST NOT remove all resources from the tie, and MUST deliver the message to at least one of the highest-priority resources (subject to appropriate security policies as described under Section 11 (Security Considerations) and in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.)).
However, for any message type the server MUST NOT deliver the stanza to any available resource with a negative priority; if the only available resource has a negative priority, the server SHOULD handle the message as if there were no available resources as described under Section 8.3.2 (No Available Resources).
In all cases, the server MUST NOT rewrite the 'to' attribute (i.e., it MUST leave it as <user@domain> rather than change it to <user@domain/resource>).
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For a presence stanza of type "probe", the server MUST handle it directly as described under Section 4.3 (Presence Probes).
For a presence stanza with no type or of type "unavailable", the server MUST deliver the stanza to all available resources.
For a presence stanza of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST adhere to the rules defined under Section 3 (Managing Presence Subscriptions) and summarized under Appendix A (Subscription States).
In all cases, the server MUST NOT rewrite the 'to' attribute (i.e., it MUST leave it as <user@domain> rather than change it to <user@domain/resource>).
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For an IQ stanza, the server itself MUST reply on behalf of the user with either an IQ result or an IQ error, and MUST NOT deliver the IQ stanza to any of the user's available resources. Specifically, if the semantics of the qualifying namespace define a reply that the server can provide on behalf of the user, the server MUST reply to the stanza on behalf of the user by returning either an IQ stanza of type "result" or an IQ stanza of type "error" that is appropriate to the original payload; if not, the server MUST reply with a <service-unavailable/> stanza error.
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If there are no available resources associated with the user, how the stanza shall be processed depends on the stanza type.
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In order to properly handle message stanzas, it is strongly RECOMMENDED for an implementation to support , i.e., the server SHOULD store the stanza on behalf of the user and deliver it when the user next becomes available. For recommendations regarding offline message storage refer to [XEP‑0160] (Saint-Andre, P., “Best Practices for Handling Offline Messages,” January 2006.).
For a message stanza of type "chat", "groupchat", or "normal", the server SHOULD add the message to offline storage or forward the message to the user via a non-XMPP messaging system (e.g., to the user's email account). However, if offline message storage or message forwarding is not enabled, the server SHOULD return a <service-unavailable/> stanza error to the sender.
For a message stanza of type "headline", the server SHOULD NOT added the message to offline storage but instead SHOULD silently discard the message (i.e., neither deliver it to the intended recipient nor return an error to the sender).
For a message stanza of type "error", the server MUST NOT added the message to offline storage but instead SHOULD silently discard the message (i.e., neither deliver it to the intended recipient nor return an error to the sender).
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For a presence stanza with no type or of type "unavailable" or "probe", the server SHOULD silently ignore the stanza by not storing it for later delivery and not replying to it on behalf of the user.
For a presence stanza of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", or "unsubscribed", the server MUST adhere to the rules defined under Section 3 (Managing Presence Subscriptions) and summarized under Appendix A (Subscription States).
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For an IQ stanza, the server itself MUST reply on behalf of the user with either an IQ result or an IQ error. Specifically, if the semantics of the qualifying namespace define a reply that the server can provide on behalf of the user, the server MUST reply to the stanza on behalf of the user by returning either an IQ stanza of type "result" or an IQ stanza of type "error" that is appropriate to the original payload; if not, the server MUST reply with a <service-unavailable/> stanza error.
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If the hostname of the domain identifier portion of the address contained in the 'to' attribute of an outbound stanza does not match a configured hostname of the server itself, the server MUST attempt to route the stanza to the foreign domain. If there exists an active stream between the two peers, the server shall route the stanza over that stream for processing by the peer server. If not, the server MUST do the following.
First, resolve the hostname of the foreign domain (or use a cached resolution of the foreign domain to an IP address). The recommended order of attempted resolutions is as follows:
If the server cannot resolve the foreign domain, it SHOULD return a <remote-server-not-found/> stanza error.
Second, negotiate XML streams with the foreign domain by following the process defined in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.). If the server can resolve the foreign domain but cannot establish streams with the XMPP service at that domain, it SHOULD return a <remote-server-timeout/> stanza error.
Third, route the stanza to the foreign domain for processing by the peer server.
Note: Administrators of server deployments are strongly encouraged to keep the _im._xmpp, _pres._xmpp, and _xmpp._tcp SRV records properly synchronized, since different implementations might perform the "_im" and "_pres" lookups before the "xmpp-server" lookup.
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This section summarizes the specific aspects of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol that MUST be supported by instant messaging and presence servers and clients in order to be considered compliant implementations. All such applications MUST comply with the requirements specified in [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.). The text in this section specifies additional compliance requirements for instant messaging and presence servers and clients (the requirements described here supplement but do not supersede the core requirements).
Note: A server or client MAY support only presence or instant messaging, and is not required to support both if only a presence service or an instant messaging service is desired.
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In addition to core server compliance requirements, an instant messaging and presence server MUST additionally support all server-related instant messaging and presence syntax and semantics defined in this document, including:
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In addition to core client compliance requirements, an instant messaging and presence client MUST additionally support the following protocols:
A client MUST also handle addresses that are encoded as "im:" URIs as specified in [CPIM] (Peterson, J., “Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM),” August 2004.) and "pres:" URIs as specified in [CPP] (Peterson, J., “Common Profile for Presence (CPP),” August 2004.), although it MAY do so by removing the "im:" or "pres:" scheme and entrusting address resolution to the server as specified under Section 8.4 (Foreign Domain). A client SHOULD also handle addresses that are encoded as "xmpp:" URIs and IRIs as specified in [XMPP‑URI] (Saint-Andre, P., “Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP),” July 2006.).
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For internationalization considerations, refer to the relevant section of [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.).
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Core security considerations for XMPP are defined in the relevant section of [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.).
Additional considerations that apply only to instant messaging and presence applications of XMPP are defined in several places within this document; specifically:
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The following sections update the registrations provided in [RFC3921] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence,” October 2004.).
For a number of related IANA considerations, refer to the relevant section of [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.).
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Address Resolution for Instant Messaging and Presence (Peterson, J., “Address Resolution for Instant Messaging and Presence,” August 2004.) [IMP‑SRV] defines an Instant Messaging SRV Protocol Label registry for protocols that can provide services that conform to the "_im" SRV Service label. Because XMPP is one such protocol, the IANA registers the "_xmpp" protocol label in the appropriate registry, as follows:
- Protocol label:
- _xmpp
- Specification:
- XXXX
- Description:
- Instant messaging protocol label for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) as defined by XXXX.
- Registrant Contact:
- IETF, XMPP Working Group, <xmppwg@xmpp.org>
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Address Resolution for Instant Messaging and Presence (Peterson, J., “Address Resolution for Instant Messaging and Presence,” August 2004.) [IMP‑SRV] defines a Presence SRV Protocol Label registry for protocols that can provide services that conform to the "_pres" SRV Service label. Because XMPP is one such protocol, the IANA registers the "_xmpp" protocol label in the appropriate registry, as follows:
- Protocol label:
- _xmpp
- Specification:
- XXXX
- Description:
- Presence protocol label for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) as defined by XXXX.
- Registrant Contact:
- IETF, XMPP Working Group, <xmppwg@xmpp.org>
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This section provides detailed information about subscription states and server processing of subscription-related presence stanzas (i.e., presence stanzas of type "subscribe", "subscribed", "unsubscribe", and "unsubscribed").
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There are four primary subscription states (note: these states are described from the perspective of the user, not the contact):
These states are supplemented by various pending sub-states to yield nine possible subscription states:
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Outbound presence subscription stanzas enable the user to manage his or her subscription to the contact's presence (via the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" types), and to manage the contact's access to the user's presence (via the "subscribed" and "unsubscribed" types).
The following rules apply to outbound routing of the stanza as well as changes to the user's roster.
Note: The rules for server processing of outbound presence subscription stanzas are described from the perspective of the user, not the contact.
Note: In the following tables, "S.N." stand for SHOULD NOT.
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Table 1: Processing of outbound "subscribe" stanzas
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | ROUTE? | NEW STATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | MUST | "None + Pending Out" [1] | | "None + Pending Out" | MUST | no state change | | "None + Pending In" | MUST | "None + Pending Out+In" | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | no state change | | "To" | MUST | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | no state change | | "From" | MUST | "From + Pending Out" [1] | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST | no state change | | "Both" | MUST | no state change | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
[1] A state change to "pending out" includes setting the 'ask' flag to a value of "subscribe" in the user's roster.
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Table 2: Processing of outbound "unsubscribe" stanzas
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | ROUTE? | NEW STATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | MUST | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | MUST | "None" | | "None + Pending In" | MUST | no state change | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | "None + Pending In" | | "To" | MUST | "None" | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | "Pending In" | | "From" | MUST | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST | "From" | | "Both" | MUST | "From" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
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Table 3: Processing of outbound "subscribed" stanzas
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | ROUTE? | NEW STATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change [1] | | "None + Pending Out" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending In" | MUST | "From" | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | "From + Pending Out" | | "To" | S.N. | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | "Both" | | "From" | S.N. | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | S.N. | no state change | | "Both" | S.N. | no state change | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
[1] A server MAY note the fact that the user wishes to allow the contact to be subscribed to the user's presence and automatically approve any subscription request received from the contact; if it does so, upon the receiving presence stanza of type "subscribed" from the user's client it MUST add a roster item for the contact to the user's roster and set the 'ask' flag to a value of "subscribed". However, the user's server still SHOULD NOT route the presence stanza of type "subscribed" to the contact. This optional functionality applies only if the contact is not already in the user's roster or if the contact is in the user's roster with a state of "None" (not including a state of "None + Pending Out").
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Table 4: Processing of outbound "unsubscribed" stanzas
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | ROUTE? | NEW STATE | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending In" | MUST | "None" | | "None + Pending Out+In" | MUST | "None + Pending Out" | | "To" | S.N. | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | MUST | "To" | | "From" | MUST | "None" | | "From + Pending Out" | MUST | "None + Pending Out" | | "Both" | MUST | "To" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
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Inbound presence subscription stanzas request a subscription-related action from the user (via the "subscribe" type), inform the user of subscription-related actions taken by the contact (via the "unsubscribe" type), or enable the user to manage the contact's access to the user's presence information (via the "subscribed" and "unsubscribed" types).
The following rules apply to delivery of the inbound stanza as well as changes to the user's roster.
Note: The rules for server processing of inbound presence subscription stanzas are described from the perspective of the user, not the contact.
Note: In the following tables, "S.N." stand for SHOULD NOT.
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Table 5: Processing of inbound "subscribe" stanzas
+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | DELIVER? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | MUST [1] | "None + Pending In" | | "None + Pending Out" | MUST | "None + Pending Out+In" | | "None + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out+In" | S.N. | no state change | | "To" | MUST | "To + Pending In" | | "To + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "From" | S.N. [2] | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | S.N. [2] | no state change | | "Both" | S.N. [2] | no state change | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
[1] If the user previously sent presence of type "subscribed" as described under Appendix A.2.3 (Subscribed), then the server MAY auto-reply with "subscribed" and change the state to "From" rather than "None + Pending In".
[2] Server SHOULD auto-reply with "subscribed".
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When the user's server receives a presence stanza of type "unsubscribe" for the user from the contact, if the stanza results in a subscription state change from the user's perspective then the user's server MUST change the state and SHOULD auto-reply by sending a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" to the contact on behalf of the user. Otherwise the user's server MUST NOT change the state and SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza. These rules are summarized in the following table.
Table 6: Processing of inbound "unsubscribe" stanzas
+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | DELIVER? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending In" | S.N. [1] | "None" | | "None + Pending Out+In" | S.N. [1] | "None + Pending Out" | | "To" | S.N. | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | S.N. [1] | "To" | | "From" | S.N. [1] | "None" | | "From + Pending Out" | S.N. [1] | "None + Pending Out | | "Both" | S.N. [1] | "To" | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
[1] Server SHOULD auto-reply with "unsubscribed".
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When the user's server receives a presence stanza of type "subscribed" for the user from the contact, if there is no pending outbound request for access to the contact's presence information, then it MUST NOT change the subscription state and SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza to the user. If there is a pending outbound request for access to the contact's presence information and the inbound presence stanza of type "subscribed" results in a subscription state change, then the user's server MUST change the subscription state but SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza to the user. If the user already has access to the contact's presence information, the inbound presence stanza of type "subscribed" does not result in a subscription state change; therefore the user's server MUST NOT change the subscription state and SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza to the user. These rules are summarized in the following table.
Table 7: Processing of inbound "subscribed" stanzas
+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | DELIVER? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | S.N. | "To" | | "None + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out+In" | S.N. | "To + Pending In" | | "To" | S.N. | no state change | | "To + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "From" | S.N. | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | S.N. | "Both" | | "Both" | S.N. | no state change | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
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When the user's server receives a presence stanza of type "unsubscribed" for the user from the contact, if there is a pending outbound request for access to the contact's presence information or if the user currently has access to the contact's presence information, then the user's server MUST change the subscription state but SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza to the user. Otherwise, the user's server MUST NOT change the subscription state and SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza. These rules are summarized in the following table.
Table 8: Processing of inbound "unsubscribed" stanzas
+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | EXISTING STATE | DELIVER? | NEW STATE | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "None" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out" | S.N. | "None" | | "None + Pending In" | S.N. | no state change | | "None + Pending Out+In" | S.N. | "None + Pending In" | | "To" | S.N. | "None" | | "To + Pending In" | S.N. | "None + Pending In" | | "From" | S.N. | no state change | | "From + Pending Out" | S.N. | "From" | | "Both" | S.N. | "From" | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Sections 2.3.5 and 5.4.10 of [IMP‑REQS] (Day, M., Aggarwal, S., and J. Vincent, “Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements,” February 2000.) require that a compliant instant messaging and presence technology must enable a user to block communications from selected users. A protocol for doing so is specified in [XEP‑0016] (Millard, P. and P. Saint-Andre, “Privacy Lists,” February 2007.).
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Sections 3.1.3 and 4.1.4 of [IMP‑REQS] (Day, M., Aggarwal, S., and J. Vincent, “Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements,” February 2000.) require that it be possible to retrieve out-of-band contact information for other users (e.g., telephone number or email address). An XML representation of the vCard specification defined in RFC 2426 (Dawson, F. and T. Howes, “vCard MIME Directory Profile,” September 1998.) [VCARD] is in common use within the Jabber community to provide such information but is out of scope for XMPP (documentation of this protocol is contained in [XEP‑0054] (Saint-Andre, P., “vcard-temp,” March 2003.)).
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Because validation of XML streams and stanzas is optional, the following XML schemas are provided for descriptive purposes only. These schemas are not normative.
The following schemas formally define various XML namespaces used in the core XMPP protocols, in conformance with [XML‑SCHEMA] (Thompson, H., Maloney, M., Mendelsohn, N., and D. Beech, “XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition,” October 2004.). For schemas defining namespaces for XML streams and other core aspects of XMPP, refer to [XMPP‑CORE] (Saint-Andre, P., “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core,” October 2007.).
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' targetNamespace='jabber:client' xmlns='jabber:client' elementFormDefault='qualified'> <xs:import namespace='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> <xs:element name='message'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:choice minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'> <xs:element ref='subject'/> <xs:element ref='body'/> <xs:element ref='thread'/> </xs:choice> <xs:any namespace='##other' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/> <xs:element ref='error' minOccurs='0'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='from' type='xs:string' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='id' type='xs:NMTOKEN' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='to' type='xs:string' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='type' use='optional' default='normal'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='chat'/> <xs:enumeration value='error'/> <xs:enumeration value='groupchat'/> <xs:enumeration value='headline'/> <xs:enumeration value='normal'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='body'> <xs:complexType> <xs:simpleContent> <xs:extension base='xs:string'> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:extension> </xs:simpleContent> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='subject'> <xs:complexType> <xs:simpleContent> <xs:extension base='xs:string'> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:extension> </xs:simpleContent> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='thread' type='xs:NMTOKEN'/> <xs:element name='presence'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:choice minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'> <xs:element ref='show'/> <xs:element ref='status'/> <xs:element ref='priority'/> </xs:choice> <xs:any namespace='##other' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/> <xs:element ref='error' minOccurs='0'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='from' type='xs:string' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='id' type='xs:NMTOKEN' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='to' type='xs:string' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='type' use='optional'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='error'/> <xs:enumeration value='probe'/> <xs:enumeration value='subscribe'/> <xs:enumeration value='subscribed'/> <xs:enumeration value='unavailable'/> <xs:enumeration value='unsubscribe'/> <xs:enumeration value='unsubscribed'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='show'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='away'/> <xs:enumeration value='chat'/> <xs:enumeration value='dnd'/> <xs:enumeration value='xa'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='status'> <xs:complexType> <xs:simpleContent> <xs:extension base='string1024'> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:extension> </xs:simpleContent> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:simpleType name='string1024'> <xs:restriction base='xs:string'> <xs:minLength value='1'/> <xs:maxLength value='1024'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> <xs:element name='priority' type='xs:byte'/> <xs:element name='iq'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:any namespace='##other' minOccurs='0'/> <xs:element ref='error' minOccurs='0'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='from' type='xs:string' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='id' type='xs:NMTOKEN' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='to' type='xs:string' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='type' use='required'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='error'/> <xs:enumeration value='get'/> <xs:enumeration value='result'/> <xs:enumeration value='set'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='error'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence xmlns:err='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'> <xs:group ref='err:stanzaErrorGroup'/> <xs:element ref='err:text' minOccurs='0'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='type' use='required'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='auth'/> <xs:enumeration value='cancel'/> <xs:enumeration value='continue'/> <xs:enumeration value='modify'/> <xs:enumeration value='wait'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema>
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' targetNamespace='jabber:server' xmlns='jabber:server' elementFormDefault='qualified'> <xs:import namespace='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/> <xs:element name='message'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:choice minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'> <xs:element ref='subject'/> <xs:element ref='body'/> <xs:element ref='thread'/> </xs:choice> <xs:any namespace='##other' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/> <xs:element ref='error' minOccurs='0'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='from' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='id' type='xs:NMTOKEN' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='to' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='type' use='optional' default='normal'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='chat'/> <xs:enumeration value='error'/> <xs:enumeration value='groupchat'/> <xs:enumeration value='headline'/> <xs:enumeration value='normal'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='body'> <xs:complexType> <xs:simpleContent> <xs:extension base='xs:string'> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:extension> </xs:simpleContent> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='subject'> <xs:complexType> <xs:simpleContent> <xs:extension base='xs:string'> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:extension> </xs:simpleContent> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='thread' type='xs:NMTOKEN'/> <xs:element name='subject'> <xs:complexType> <xs:simpleContent> <xs:extension base='xs:NMTOKEN'> <xs:attribute name='parent' type='xs:NMTOKEN' use='optional'/> </xs:extension> </xs:simpleContent> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='presence'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:choice minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'> <xs:element ref='show'/> <xs:element ref='status'/> <xs:element ref='priority'/> </xs:choice> <xs:any namespace='##other' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/> <xs:element ref='error' minOccurs='0'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='from' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='id' type='xs:NMTOKEN' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='to' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='type' use='optional'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='error'/> <xs:enumeration value='probe'/> <xs:enumeration value='subscribe'/> <xs:enumeration value='subscribed'/> <xs:enumeration value='unavailable'/> <xs:enumeration value='unsubscribe'/> <xs:enumeration value='unsubscribed'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='show'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='away'/> <xs:enumeration value='chat'/> <xs:enumeration value='dnd'/> <xs:enumeration value='xa'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='status'> <xs:complexType> <xs:simpleContent> <xs:extension base='string1024'> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:extension> </xs:simpleContent> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:simpleType name='string1024'> <xs:restriction base='xs:string'> <xs:minLength value='1'/> <xs:maxLength value='1024'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> <xs:element name='priority' type='xs:byte'/> <xs:element name='iq'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:any namespace='##other' minOccurs='0'/> <xs:element ref='error' minOccurs='0'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='from' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='id' type='xs:NMTOKEN' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='to' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='type' use='required'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='error'/> <xs:enumeration value='get'/> <xs:enumeration value='result'/> <xs:enumeration value='set'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> <xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' use='optional'/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='error'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence xmlns:err='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'> <xs:group ref='err:stanzaErrorGroup'/> <xs:element ref='err:text' minOccurs='0'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='type' use='required'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='auth'/> <xs:enumeration value='cancel'/> <xs:enumeration value='continue'/> <xs:enumeration value='modify'/> <xs:enumeration value='wait'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema>
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' targetNamespace='jabber:iq:roster' xmlns='jabber:iq:roster' elementFormDefault='qualified'> <xs:element name='query'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref='item' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='item'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref='group' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='ask' use='optional'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='subscribe'/> <xs:enumeration value='subscribed'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> <xs:attribute name='jid' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='name' type='xs:string' use='optional'/> <xs:attribute name='subscription' use='optional'> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base='xs:NCName'> <xs:enumeration value='both'/> <xs:enumeration value='from'/> <xs:enumeration value='none'/> <xs:enumeration value='remove'/> <xs:enumeration value='to'/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:attribute> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='group' type='xs:string'/> </xs:schema>
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Based on consensus derived from implementation and deployment experience as well as formal interoperability testing, the following substantive modifications were made from RFC 3921.
In addition, numerous changes of an editorial nature were made in order to more fully specify and clearly explain the protocols.
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Peter Saint-Andre (editor) | |
XMPP Standards Foundation | |
Email: | stpeter@jabber.org |
URI: | https://stpeter.im/ |
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