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Abstract

The Contact Information for Presence Information Data Format (CIPID) adds elements to the Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) that provide additional contact information about a presentity and its contacts, including references to address book entries and icons.

Table of Contents

1.  Introduction
2.  Card Element
3.  Homepage Element
4.  Icon Element
5.  Example
6.  Schema
7.  IANA Considerations
7.1  URN Sub-Namespace Registration for 'urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid'
8.  Security Considerations
§  Normative References
§  Informative References
§  Author's Address
A.  Acknowledgments
§  Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements

1. Introduction

In its function of facilitating communication, the usefulness of presence information can be enhanced by providing basic information about a presentity or contact. This document describes a basic set of information elements that allow a watcher to retrieve additional information about a presentity or contact.

We describe elements for providing a "business card", references to the homepage and an icon. All can be used either for a presentity or for a tuple (or both).

This additional presence information can be used in PIDF[3] documents or together with RPID[4].

2. Card Element

The <card> element includes a URI pointing to a business card, e.g., in LDIF or vCard format.

3. Homepage Element

The <homepage> element provides a URI pointing to general information about the tuple or presentity, typically a web home page.

4. Icon Element

The <icon> element provides a URI pointing to an image (icon) representing the tuple or presentity. The watcher MAY use this information to represent the tuple or presentity in a graphical user interface. Presentities SHOULD provide images of sizes and aspect ratios that are appropriate for rendering as an icon.

5. Example

An example, combining RPID and CIPID, is shown in Fig. Figure 1.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <presence xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf"
        xmlns:es="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:rpid-status"
        xmlns:et="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:rpid-tuple"
        xmlns:ci="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid"
        entity="pres:someone@example.com">

     <ci:homepage>http://example.com/~someone</ci:homepage>
     <ci:icon>http://example.com/~someone/icon.gif</ci:icon>
     <ci:card>http://example.com/~someone/card.vcd</ci:card>

     <tuple id="7c8dqui">
       <et:class>assistant</et:class>
       <et:contact-type>presentity</et:contact-type>

       <status>
         <basic>open</basic>
         <contact>sip:secretary@example.com</contact>
         <ep:relationship>assistant</ep:relationship>
         <ci:homepage>http://example.com/~secretary</ci:homepage>
         <ci:icon>http://example.com/~secretary/icon.gif</ci:icon>
         <ci:card>http://example.com/~secretary/card.vcd</ci:card>
       </status>
       <note>My secretary</note>
     </tuple>
  </presence>

A CIPID Example

6. Schema

The schema is shown in Fig. Figure 2.

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

  <!-- This import brings in the XML language attribute xml:lang-->
      <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
      schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"/>

  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:documentation xml:lang="en">
      Describes CIPID tuple extensions for PIDF.
    </xs:documentation> 
  </xs:annotation>

  <xs:element name="card" type="xs:anyURI"/>
  <xs:element name="homepage" type="xs:anyURI"/>
  <xs:element name="icon" type="xs:anyURI"/>
</xs:schema>

The CIPID Schema

7. IANA Considerations

This document calls for IANA to register a new XML namespace URNs per [2].

7.1 URN Sub-Namespace Registration for 'urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:cipid'

URI:

urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:cipid

Description:

This is the XML namespace for XML elements defined by RFCXXXX to describe contact information presence information extensions for the status element in the PIDF presence document format in the application/cpim-pidf+xml content type.

Registrant Contact:

IETF, SIMPLE working group, simple@ietf.org; Henning Schulzrinne, hgs@cs.columbia.edu

XML:

 BEGIN
   <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
   <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
   <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type"
        content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
        <title>CIPID -- Contact Information in Presence Information Data Format</title>
   </head>
   <body>
       <h1>Namespace for contact information presence extension (status)</h1>
       <h2>urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:cipid</h2>
       <p>See <a href="URL of published RFC">RFCXXXX</a>.</p>
    </body>
    </html>
   END

8. Security Considerations

The security issues are similar to those for RPID[4]. Watchers need to restrict which types of content pointed to by <icon> elements they render.

Also, accessing these URIs may in turn provide hints that the watcher is currently using the presence application.

Normative References

Informative References

Author's Address

Appendix A. Acknowledgments

This document is based on the discussions within the IETF SIMPLE working group. Vijay Gurbani, Paul Kyzivat, Jon Peterson and Jonathan Rosenberg have provided helpful comments.

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