From: The IESG To: IETF-Announce Message-Id: Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:58:29 -0500 Cc: simple chair , Internet Architecture Board , simple mailing list , RFC Editor Subject: [Simple] Protocol Action: 'Timed Presence Extensions to the Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) to Indicate Status Information for Past and Future Time Intervals' to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Timed Presence Extensions to the Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) to Indicate Status Information for Past and Future Time Intervals ' as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ted Hardie and Scott Hollenbeck. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-simple-future-05.txt Technical Summary This document utilizes the extention mechanisms within the Presence Information Document Format (PIDF) adding optional elements with additional information about the presentity and its contacts. This extension focuses on allowing a presentity to describe aspects of its historic status for an interval of time in the past, or its expected status for an interval of time in the future (timed-status). Working Group Summary This document reflects WG consensus. It is related to, and was split out from, the Rich Presence Information Document format (RPID) work to facilitate building consensus. The semantics of advertising presence for a time that is not now were thouroghly debated and clarified in this document. Protocol Quality Robert Sparks was the PROTO shepherd for this document. This document was reviewed for the IESG by Ted Hardie Note to RFC Editor OLD: The schema is shown below NEW: The XML schema [4] [5] [6] is shown below. Please also add the following normative references and renumber the subsequent references. [4] Yergeau, F., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Bray, T., and E. Maler, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition)", W3C REC REC-xml-20040204, February 2004. [5] Maloney, M., Beech, D., Thompson, H., and N. Mendelsohn, "XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition", W3C REC REC-xmlschema-1-20041028, October 2004. [6] Malhotra, A. and P. Biron, "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition", W3C REC REC-xmlschema-2-20041028, October 2004.