The Application Exchange (APEX) Presence Service
RFC 3343
| Document | Type | RFC - Historic (May 2003; No errata) | |
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| Authors | Marshall Rose , Dave Crocker , Graham Klyne | ||
| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Network Working Group M. Rose
Request for Comments: 3343 Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
Category: Experimental G. Klyne
Nine by Nine
D. Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
April 2003
The Application Exchange (APEX) Presence Service
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo describes the Application Exchange (APEX) presence service,
addressed as the well-known endpoint "apex=presence". The presence
service is used to manage presence information for APEX endpoints.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Use and Management of Presence Information . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1 Update of Presence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Distribution of Presence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3 Distribution of Watcher Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Format of Presence Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. The Presence Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1 Use of XML and MIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2 The Subscribe Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3 The Watch Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4 The Publish Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.5 The Terminate Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.6 The Notify Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.7 The Reply Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5. Registration: The Presence Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6. The Presence Service DTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Rose, et al. Experimental [Page 1]
RFC 3343 The Application Exchange (APEX) Presence April 2003
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1. Introduction
This memo describes a presence service that is built upon the APEX
[1] "relaying mesh". The APEX presence service is used to manage
presence information for APEX endpoints.
APEX, at its core, provides a best-effort datagram service. Within
an administrative domain, all relays must be able to handle messages
for any endpoint within that domain. APEX services are logically
defined as endpoints, but given their ubiquitous semantics they do
not necessarily need to be associated with a single physical
endpoint. As such, they may be provisioned co-resident with each
relay within an administrative domain, even though they are logically
provided on top of the relaying mesh, i.e.,
+----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +---------+
| APEX | | APEX | | APEX | | |
| access | | presence | | report | | ... |
| service | | service | | service | | |
+----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +---------+
| | | |
| | | |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| APEX core |
| |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
That is, applications communicate with an APEX service by exchanging
data with a "well-known endpoint" (WKE).
APEX applications communicate with the presence service by exchanging
data with the well-known endpoint "apex=presence" in the
corresponding administrative domain, e.g.,
"apex=presence@example.com" is the endpoint associated with the
presence service in the "example.com" administrative domain.
Note that within a single administrative domain, the presence service
makes use of the APEX access [3] service in order to determine if an
originator is allowed to view or manage presence information.
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