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diff --git a/doc/rfc/rfc5364.txt b/doc/rfc/rfc5364.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69fbacc --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rfc/rfc5364.txt @@ -0,0 +1,955 @@ + + + + + + +Network Working Group M. Garcia-Martin +Request for Comments: 5364 G. Camarillo +Category: Standards Track Ericsson + October 2008 + + + Extensible Markup Language (XML) Format Extension for Representing + Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists + +Status of This Memo + + This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the + Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for + improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet + Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state + and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. + +Abstract + + In certain types of multimedia communications, a Session Initiation + Protocol (SIP) request is distributed to a group of SIP User Agents + (UAs). The sender sends a single SIP request to a server which + further distributes the request to the group. This SIP request + contains a list of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), which + identify the recipients of the SIP request. This URI list is + expressed as a resource list XML document. This specification + defines an XML extension to the XML resource list format that allows + the sender of the request to qualify a recipient with a copy control + level similar to the copy control level of existing email systems. + +Table of Contents + + 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 + 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 + 3. Overview of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 + 4. Extension to the Resource List Data Format . . . . . . . . . . 6 + 5. XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 + 6. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + 7. Carrying URI Lists in SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 + 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 + 9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 + 9.1. Disposition Type Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 + 9.2. XML Namespace Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 + 9.3. XML Schema Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 + 10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 + 11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 + 11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 + 11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 1] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + +1. Introduction + + RFC 5363 [RFC5363] describes a generic framework for carrying Uniform + Resource Identifier (URI) lists in SIP [RFC3261] messages. + Specifically, the document provides a common framework for specific + implementations of URI-list services, such as conferences initiated + with INVITE requests [RFC5366] or Multiple-recipient MESSAGE requests + [RFC5365]. + + Common to all URI-list services is the presence of a SIP request that + contains a collection of resources, typically expressed as an XML + resource list [RFC4826]. SIP requests carrying resource lists can + appear either in requests received by the URI-list server, indicating + the list of intended recipients, or in each of the requests that the + URI-list server sends to recipients, indicating the list of + recipients of the same SIP request. + + Although the XML resource list [RFC4826] provides a powerful + mechanism for describing a list of resources, there is a need for a + copy control attribute to determine whether a resource is receiving a + SIP request as a primary recipient, a carbon copy, or a blind carbon + copy. This is similar to common email systems, where the sender can + categorize each recipient as a "to", "cc", or "bcc" recipient. + + This document addresses this problem by providing an extension to the + XML resource list [RFC4826] that enables the sender to supply a copy + control attribute that labels each recipient as a "to", "cc", or + "bcc" recipient. This attribute indicates whether the recipient is + receiving a primary copy of the SIP request, a carbon copy, or a + blind carbon copy. Additionally, we provide the sender with the + capability of indicating in the URI list that one or more resources + should be anonymized, so that some recipients' URIs are not disclosed + to the other recipients. Instead, these URIs are replaced with + anonymous URIs. + + The remainder of this document is organized as follows: Section 2 + introduces the terminology used throughout this specification. + Section 3 gives an overview of operation. Section 4 formally defines + an extension to URI lists. The XML schema definition is provided in + Section 5. Section 6 shows examples of the URI lists with the + extensions defined in this document. Section 7 discusses the + implications of carrying URI lists in SIP messages. + + + + + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 2] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + +2. Terminology + + The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", + "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this + document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119 + [RFC2119] and indicate requirement levels for compliant + implementations. + + URI-list service: SIP application service that receives a SIP + request containing a URI list and sends a similar SIP request to + each URI in the list. + + Intended recipient: The intended final recipient of the request to + be generated by URI-list service. + + Copy control: An attribute assigned by the sender to a URI in an + XML resource list. Its purpose is to indicate to the recipient + whether he is getting a primary, carbon, or blind carbon copy of + the SIP request. + + Recipient list or recipient XML resource list: An XML resource list + containing the list of intended recipients. The sender sets this + list in the SIP request he sends to the URI-list server. + + Recipient-history list or recipient-history XML resource list: An + XML resource list containing the visible list of recipients (i.e., + those non-anonymous non-bcc). The URI-list server creates this + list, based on the recipient list, and includes it in each of the + SIP requests it sends to each recipient. + +3. Overview of Operation + + Figure 1 depicts a general overview of the operation of a URI-list + server. A SIP User Agent Client (UAC) issuer sends a SIP request + (F1) to a URI-list server containing a recipient list. The URI-list + server generates a SIP request to each recipient, according to the + specific SIP method. Each of these SIP requests contains a + recipient-history list that indicates the visible list of recipients + of the SIP request. + + + + + + + + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 3] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + +--------+ +---------+ +--------+ +--------+ +--------+ + |SIP UAC | | URI-list| |intended| |intended| |intended| + | issuer | | server | | recip. | | recip. | | recip. | + | | | | | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | + +--------+ +---------+ +--------+ +--------+ +--------+ + | | | | | + | F1 SIP request | | | | + | (recipt. list) | | | | + | ---------------->| | | | + | F2 2xx response | | | | + |<---------------- | F3 SIP request | | | + | | (recp-hist.list)| | | + | | --------------->| | | + | | F4 SIP request | | | + | | (recp-hist.list)| | | + | | -------------------------->| | + | | F5 SIP request | | | + | | (recp-hist.list)| | | + | | ------------------------------------->| + | | F6 200 OK | | | + | |<--------------- | | | + | | F7 200 OK | | | + | |<-------------------------- | | + | | F8 200 OK | | | + | |<------------------------------------- | + | | | | | + | | | | | + | | | | | + + Figure 1: Example of operation + + The URI-list mechanism allows a sender to specify multiple targets + for a SIP request by including a recipient XML resource list + [RFC4826] in the body of the SIP request. This recipient list + includes the target URIs of the SIP request (the actual procedures + are method specific and outside the scope of this document). Each + target URI may also be marked with a copy control attribute to + indicate the copy level in which the recipient is receiving the SIP + request. This is achieved by the sender qualifying each URI in the + URI list with a 'copyControl' attribute. The available values of the + 'copyControl' attribute include "to", "cc", and "bcc" (analogous to + email). This is discussed in greater detail in Section 4. When the + URI-list server expands the request to each recipient, the URI-list + server includes a recipient-history XML resource list built upon the + recipient list received from the sender. The recipient-history XML + resource list replaces the recipient list in the SIP requests + generated by the URI-list server towards each recipient. The URI- + list server copies from the recipient list those targets that are + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 4] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + marked with the "to" and "cc" copy control level, and pastes them in + the recipient-history list. The URI-list server explicitly excludes + from the recipient-history list those URIs marked with a "bcc" copy + control, although it is able to preserve the address of a "bcc" + tagged URI when it matches the URI of the recipient of the SIP + request (this is described later in Section 4). When a recipient + receives the SIP request containing the recipient-history XML + resource list, he is able to determine which other visible recipients + are getting a copy of the SIP request, and whether they are marked + with the "to" or "cc" copy control level. Later, if needed, the + recipient can generate a reply to those visible recipients. + + In addition to the 'copyControl' attribute for a URI in an XML + resource list, we define a second boolean attribute called + 'anonymize'. The sender of a SIP request can mark a URI in a + recipient XML resource list with the 'anonymize' attribute to + indicate the URI-list server that the URI marked with that attribute + is to be replaced with an anonymous URI in the recipient-history XML + resource list. This provides knowledge to the recipients of a SIP + request of the number of additional visible recipients whose URIs + have not been disclosed. + + There are cases when the sender marks several URIs with the + 'anonymize' attribute. The URI-list server can group the anonymized + URIs in a single anonymized URI within its copy control level, and + provide a count of the number of anonymized URIs. To support this + scenario, we define a new 'count' attribute to a URI in the + recipient-history XML resource list. It is expected that the 'count' + attribute is only used with anonymous URIs, although syntactically it + is possible to add a 'count' attribute to any URI in any XML resource + list. + + Initially, it may be thought that the 'anonymize' attribute overlaps + with the "bcc" value of the 'copyControl' attribute. However, there + are differences between them. If the sender qualifies a URI with a + 'copyControl' attribute of "bcc" in the recipient XML resource list, + the URI-list server will typically remove that URI from the + recipient-history XML resource list (unless the URI-list server + decides to preserve a "bcc" marked URI when that URI is itself the + recipient of the SIP request). Recipients of the SIP request will + not notice that one or more extra "bcc" URIs also received the + request. However, if the sender qualifies a URI with the 'anonymize' + attribute in the recipient XML resource list, the URI-list server + will replace the URI with an anonymous one in the recipient-history + list. Recipients of the SIP request will notice that there have been + one or more additional recipients of the same request, but their URIs + are not disclosed. + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 5] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + +4. Extension to the Resource List Data Format + + This document defines an extension to the XML resource list data + format [RFC4826] that allows the sender to indicate a copy control + attribute that qualifies a recipient with a copy control level. We + define a new 'copyControl' attribute to the <entry> element of the + resource list document format [RFC4826]. The 'copyControl' attribute + has similar semantics to the type of destination address in email + systems. It can take the values "to", "cc", and "bcc". A "to" value + of the 'copyControl' attribute indicates that the resource is + considered a primary recipient of the SIP request. A "cc" value + indicates that the resource receives a carbon copy of the SIP + request. A "bcc" value indicates that the resource receives a blind + carbon copy of the SIP request (i.e., this URI is not disclosed to + other recipients of the SIP request). The default 'copyControl' + value is "bcc". That is, the absence of a 'copyControl' attribute + MUST be treated as if the 'copyControl' was set to "bcc". + + When creating a recipient-history list, URI-list servers use "bcc" + 'copyControl' attributes to route SIP requests. In addition, URI- + list servers behave similarly to email systems [RFC2822] with respect + to the treatment of these URIs marked with a "bcc" copy control, + because they have two ways of treating "bcc" marked URIs. URI-list + servers MUST treat these "bcc" marked URIs in either of the following + two ways: + + o URI-list servers MUST remove all URIs marked with a "bcc" copy + control in recipient-history lists. This mechanism allows URI- + list servers to send the same recipient-history list to each + recipient of the SIP request. However, recipients who are tagged + with "bcc" values are not explicitly informed about it. + + o URI-list servers MUST preserve with a "bcc" copy control in the + recipient-history list the URI that identifies the recipient (if + any) and MUST remove the remaining URIs marked with a "bcc" copy + control. Consequently, each recipient receives a different + recipient-history list. However, recipients who have been marked + with a "bcc" copy control are explicitly informed about it. + + Implementations that are able to receive recipient-history lists must + pay attention to the contents of the list. If the recipient's URI is + not included in the recipient-history list or if it is included but + tagged with a "bcc" copy control, then implementations SHOULD prevent + the user from replying to all the recipients of the SIP request. + This would allow the non-blind recipients to notice the existence of + blind recipients of the SIP request. + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 6] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + A new 'anonymize' attribute can be included in a <entry> element of + the resource list document format [RFC4826]. If set to a "true" + value, it provides an indication to the URI-list server for not + disclosing the URI itself in a URI list sent to the recipient, but + instead to anonymize the URI (i.e., making it bogus in the recipient- + history XML resource list). URI-list servers can use URIs tagged + with the 'anonymize' attribute for routing SIP requests, but MUST + convert them to the SIP URI "sip:anonymous@anonymous.invalid" in + recipient-history lists. The default value of the 'anonymize' + attribute is "false". + + There are occasions where the URI-list server encounters the same URI + entry duplicated in a resource list, where duplicated URI entries are + tagged with the same or different values of the 'copyControl' + attribute. There are no reasonable usages that justify duplicated + URIs in resource lists; thus, this is considered an error. URI-list + servers should not send duplicated copies of the same SIP request to + the same intended recipient. In case the URI-list server encounters + the same URI entry duplicated in a resource list, it should send at + most a single copy of the request to that intended recipient. For + each set of duplicated URI entries, the URI-list server MUST select + the highest precedence value of the 'copyControl' attribute for the + same intended recipient. The order of precedence of the values of + the 'copyControl' attribute is: "to", "cc", and "bcc". Once the URI- + list server has selected a value for the 'copyControl' attribute of + an intended recipient, the URI-list server can continue processing + the request. + + Processing of URIs tagged with a 'copyControl' attribute set to a + "bcc" value has higher precedence over the 'anonymize' attribute. + Thus, if the 'copyControl' of a URI is set to "bcc", the URI-list + server MUST remove that URI from the recipient-history list, and the + 'anonymize' attribute will be ignored. Therefore, the 'anonymize' + attribute is only useful for those URIs tagged with a 'copyControl' + of "to" or "cc". + + A new 'count' attribute can be also included in an <entry> element of + the resource list document format [RFC4826]. It provides the number + of equal URIs. Typically, recipient lists created by UACs will not + have equal (or duplicate) URI entries; thus, it is not expected to + contain URIs tagged with 'count' attributes. However, recipient- + history lists can contain duplicated anonymized URIs; therefore, it + is expected that recipient-history lists will contain 'count' + attributes. The default value of the 'count' attribute is "1". + + + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 7] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + The 'copyControl', 'anonymize', and 'count' attributes SHOULD be + included as modifiers of any of the child elements included in the + <list> element of a resource list (e.g., attribute of the <entry> or + <external> elements). + + Section 5 describes the format of the 'copyControl', 'anonymize', and + 'count' attributes. Implementations according to this specification + MUST support this XML schema. + + Implementations that receive recipient-history lists must pay + attention to the contents of the list. If the recipient's URI is not + included in recipient-history list or if it is included but tagged + with a "bcc" copy control, then they SHOULD prevent the user from + replying to all the recipients of the SIP request. This would allow + the non-blind recipients to notice the existence of blind recipients + in the original SIP request. + +5. XML Schema + + <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> + <xs:schema targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol" + xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol" + xmlns:rls="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists" + xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" + elementFormDefault="qualified" + attributeFormDefault="unqualified"> + + <xs:annotation> + <xs:documentation xml:lang="en"> + Adds the copyControl, anonymize, and count attributes + to URIs included in a resource list. + </xs:documentation> + </xs:annotation> + + <xs:import namespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists" + schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:resource-lists"/> + + <xs:attribute name="copyControl"> + <xs:simpleType> + <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> + <xs:enumeration value="to"/> + <xs:enumeration value="cc"/> + <xs:enumeration value="bcc"/> + </xs:restriction> + </xs:simpleType> + </xs:attribute> + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 8] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + <xs:attribute name="anonymize" type="xs:boolean" default="false"/> + <xs:attribute name="count" type="xs:nonNegativeInteger" + default="1"/> + + </xs:schema> + + Figure 2: XML schema of the extension to the resource list format + +6. Examples + + This section shows two examples of URI lists that can be included in + SIP requests. The first example in Figure 3 shows a recipient list + that the UAC sends to the URI-list server. This corresponds to a + list that will be included in the flow F2 in Figure 1. The recipient + list contains a flat list according to the resource list data format + specified in RFC 4826 [RFC4826]. Each resource indicates the copy + control of a resource with a 'copyControl' attribute. Some of the + resources are also marked with the 'anonymize' attribute. This + provides an indication to the URI-list service for not disclosing + their URIs in a recipient-history list. The last two <entry> + elements are marked with a 'copyControl' attribute of "bcc". This + provides an indication to the URI-list server for removing these URIs + in the recipient-history list. + + <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> + <resource-lists xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists" + xmlns:cp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol"> + <list> + <entry uri="sip:bill@example.com" cp:copyControl="to" /> + <entry uri="sip:randy@example.net" cp:copyControl="to" + cp:anonymize="true"/> + <entry uri="sip:eddy@example.com" cp:copyControl="to" + cp:anonymize="true"/> + <entry uri="sip:joe@example.org" cp:copyControl="cc" /> + <entry uri="sip:carol@example.net" cp:copyControl="cc" + cp:anonymize="true"/> + <entry uri="sip:ted@example.net" cp:copyControl="bcc" /> + <entry uri="sip:andy@example.com" cp:copyControl="bcc" /> + </list> + </resource-lists> + + Figure 3: Recipient list sent from the UAC to the URI-list server + + Upon receipt of the SIP request containing the recipient list of + Figure 3, the URI-list server creates a SIP request to each of the + URIs listed in the recipient list (so, in our example, it creates 7 + SIP requests). The URI-list server processes the recipient list and + creates a recipient-history list that is included in each of the + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 9] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + outgoing SIP requests. The process is as follows: the URI-list + server creates a new recipient-history list, based on the recipient + list, but with changes. First, it copies all the URIs (<entry> + elements) marked with the "to" or "cc" 'copyControl' attributes, + which do not contain an 'anonymize' attribute (or when the + 'anonymize' attribute is set to "false"). Then all the URIs marked + with a 'copyControl' attribute set to "to" and 'anonymize' attribute + set to "true" are replaced with the SIP anonymous URI + "sip:anonymous@anonymous.invalid". In this entry, the URI-list + server also adds the original value of the 'copyControl' attribute + ("to" in our example), and it adds a 'count' attribute containing the + number of anonymous entries in this group ("2" in our example). Then + the URI-list server does the same operation to the URIs tagged with + the 'copyControl' attribute set to "cc" and 'anonymize' attribute set + to "true", adding also the 'count' attribute containing the number of + anonymous attributes in this group ("1" in the example). Last, the + URI-list server removes all URIs marked with the "bcc" 'copyControl' + attribute. The resulting recipient-history list is shown in + Figure 4. + + <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> + <resource-lists xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists" + xmlns:cp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol"> + <list> + <entry uri="sip:bill@example.com" cp:copyControl="to" /> + <entry uri="sip:anonymous@anonymous.invalid" cp:copyControl="to" + cp:count="2"/> + <entry uri="sip:joe@example.org" cp:copyControl="cc" /> + <entry uri="sip:anonymous@anonymous.invalid" cp:copyControl="cc" + cp:count="1"/> + </list> + </resource-lists> + + Figure 4: Recipient-history list sent from the URI-list server to + each recipient + +7. Carrying URI Lists in SIP + + A SIP UAC (User Agent Client) that composes a SIP request can include + a URI list with the extensions specified in this document to indicate + the list of intended recipients. On doing so, as specified in RFC + 5363 [RFC5363], the UAC adds a Content-Disposition [RFC2183] header + field set to the value 'recipient-list'. Typically UACs send these + 'recipient-list' bodies to URI-list services (this corresponds to + flow F1 in Figure 1). A body whose Content-Disposition type is + 'recipient-list' contains a URI list that includes the intended + recipients of the SIP request, something known throughout this + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 10] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + document as a recipient list. The <entry> element in the URI list + MAY also include a 'copyControl' and 'anonymize' attributes, as + specified in Section 4. + + To be able to inform intended recipients of who else is receiving a + copy of the SIP request, we define a new mail disposition type to be + included in a Content-Disposition [RFC2183] header field of a SIP + request. The value of this new disposition type is 'recipient-list- + history' and its purpose is to indicate a list of recipients that a + SIP request was sent to, something known throughout this document as + a recipient-history list. A body whose Content-Disposition type is + 'recipient-list-history' contains a URI list with the visible + (including anonymized) recipients of the SIP request. The <entry> + element in the URI list MAY also include a 'copyControl' and 'count' + attributes, as specified in Section 4. + + On sending a SIP request that contains a recipient-history list, if + the intended recipient does not support this specification, the SIP + request should not fail. In order to ensure successful receipt of + the SIP requests that include 'recipient-list-history' bodies, User + Agents (such as URI-list servers) that build SIP requests with the + Content-Disposition header field set to 'recipient-list-history' + SHOULD add a "handling" parameter [RFC3204] set to "optional". + Otherwise, the SIP request could fail and never be received by the + intended recipient. + + Even though "Message Body Handling in SIP" [SIP_BODY] mandates + support for multipart bodies, legacy recipients may not support them. + In such a case, if the request sent by the relay to the recipient + needs to contain another body (e.g., a MESSAGE request carrying a + message in its body), the relay will not be able to use this + extension because the recipient would not be able to process a + multipart body with the original body plus the 'recipient-list- + history' body. + +8. Security Considerations + + RFC 5363 [RFC5363] discusses issues related to SIP URI-list services. + Implementations of this specification MUST follow the security- + related rules in RFC 5363 [RFC5363]. These rules include opt-in + lists and mandatory authentication and authorization of clients. + + User Agent Clients SHOULD NOT hand SIP requests containing URI-list + services to unauthenticated and untrusted parties. This is to avoid + man-in-the-middle attacks or acquiring URI lists for performing spam + attacks. + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 11] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + URI lists may contain private information, such as SIP URIs. It is + therefore not desirable that these URI lists are known by third + parties. Eavesdroppers are able to watch URI lists contained in SIP + requests unless the SIP message is sent over a secured channel, by + using any of the available SIP mechanisms, such as Transport Layer + Security (TLS) [RFC4346], or unless the URI-list body itself is + encrypted with, e.g., S/MIME [RFC3851]. Therefore, it is RECOMMENDED + that URI-list bodies are encrypted with S/MIME [RFC3851] or that the + SIP request is encrypted with TLS [RFC4346] or any other suitable + encryption mechanism. + + Note that this URI list does not indicate the actual participants in + the session. It indicates only the URIs invited and that might + accept the request. It does not assert that these parties actually + exist, that they are reachable at the given URI, or that they have + accepted the invitation. No inferences about billing should be made + from this information. It is subject to spoofing by loading the list + with falsified content. + + Issuers of SIP request use the "bcc" copy control attribute described + in Section 4 to facilitate sending SIP requests to recipients without + revealing the URIs of one or more of the other recipients. + Mishandling this use of "bcc" copy control has implications for + confidential information that might be revealed, which could + eventually lead to security problems through knowledge of even the + existence of a particular URI. For example, if using the first + method described in Section 4, where the "bcc" tagged URIs are + removed from the recipient-history list, blind recipients have no + explicit indication that they have been sent a blind copy of the SIP + request, except insofar as their URI does not appear in the + recipient-history list. Because of this, one of the blind URIs could + potentially send a reply to all of the shown recipients and + accidentally reveal that the message went to the blind recipient. + When the second method from Section 4 is used, the blind recipient's + address appears in the recipient-history list of a separate copy of + the list. If the "bcc" tagged URI sent contains all of the "bcc" + tagged URIs, all of the "bcc" recipients will be seen by each "bcc" + recipient. Even if a separate message is sent to each "bcc" + recipient with only the individual's URI, implementations still need + to be careful to process replies to the message as per Section 4 so + as not to accidentally reveal the blind recipient to other + recipients. + + + + + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 12] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + +9. IANA Considerations + + IANA has made registrations according to the following subsections: a + new disposition type, a new XML namespace, and a new XML schema. + +9.1. Disposition Type Registration + + Section 7 defines a new 'recipient-list-history' value of the Mail + Content Disposition Values registry. This value has been registered + in the IANA registry of Mail Content Disposition Values with the + following registration data: + + +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+ + | Name | Description | Reference | + +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+ + | recipient-list-history | the body contains a list of | [RFC5364] | + | | URIs that indicates the | | + | | recipients of the request | | + +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+ + + Table 1: Registration of the 'recipient-list-history' Mail Content + Disposition Value + +9.2. XML Namespace Registration + + This section registers a new XML namespace in the IANA XML registry, + as per the guidelines in RFC 3688 [RFC3688]. + + URI: The URI for this namespace is urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol + + Registrant Contact: IETF SIPPING working group (sipping@ietf.org), + Miguel Garcia-Martin (miguel.a.garcia@ericsson.com). + + XML: + + BEGIN + <?xml version="1.0"?> + <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd"> + <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="content-type" + content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/> + <title>Copy Control Namespace</title> + </head> + <body> + <h1>Namespace for the Copy Control Attribute Extension + in Resource Lists</h1> + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 13] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + <h2>urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol</h2> + <p>See <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5364.txt"> + RFC5364</a>.</p> + </body> + </html> + END + +9.3. XML Schema Registration + + This section registers a new XML schema in the IANA XML registry per + the procedures in RFC 3688 [RFC3688]. + + URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:copycontrol + + Registrant Contact: IETF SIPPING working group (sipping@ietf.org), + Miguel Garcia-Martin (miguel.a.garcia@ericsson.com). + + The XML for this schema can be found as the sole content of + Section 5. + +10. Acknowledgments + + Thanks to Dean Willis, Jari Urpalainen, Pekka Kuure, Atsushi Sato, + Brian Rosen, Mary Barnes, James Polk, Brian E. Carpenter, and Chris + Newman for reviewing this document and providing helpful comments. + +11. References + +11.1. Normative References + + [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate + Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. + + [RFC2183] Troost, R., Dorner, S., and K. Moore, "Communicating + Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The + Content-Disposition Header Field", RFC 2183, August 1997. + + [RFC3204] Zimmerer, E., Peterson, J., Vemuri, A., Ong, L., Audet, + F., Watson, M., and M. Zonoun, "MIME media types for ISUP + and QSIG Objects", RFC 3204, December 2001. + + [RFC3261] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston, + A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E. + Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, + June 2002. + + [RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688, + January 2004. + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 14] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + + [RFC3851] Ramsdell, B., "Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail + Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification", + RFC 3851, July 2004. + + [RFC4346] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security + (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1", RFC 4346, April 2006. + + [RFC4826] Rosenberg, J., "Extensible Markup Language (XML) Formats + for Representing Resource Lists", RFC 4826, May 2007. + + [RFC5363] Camarillo, G. and A.B. Roach, "Framework and Security + Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) URI- + List Services", RFC 5363, October 2008. + +11.2. Informative References + + [RFC2822] Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822, + April 2001. + + [RFC5366] Camarillo, G. and A. Johnston, "Conference Establishment + Using Request-Contained Lists in the Session Initiation + Protocol (SIP)", RFC 5366, October 2008. + + [RFC5365] Garcia-Martin, M. and G. Camarillo, "Multiple-Recipient + MESSAGE Requests in the Session Initiation Protocol + (SIP)", RFC 5365, October 2008. + + [SIP_BODY] Camarillo, G., "Message Body Handling in the Session + Initiation Protocol (SIP)", Work in Progress, + August 2008. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 15] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + +Authors' Addresses + + Miguel A. Garcia-Martin + Ericsson + Via de los Poblados 13 + Madrid 28033 + Spain + + EMail: miguel.a.garcia@ericsson.com + + + Gonzalo Camarillo + Ericsson + Hirsalantie 11 + Jorvas 02420 + Finland + + EMail: Gonzalo.Camarillo@ericsson.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Garcia-Martin & Camarillo Standards Track [Page 16] + +RFC 5364 Copy Control Attribute in Resource Lists October 2008 + + +Full Copyright Statement + + Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). + + This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions + contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors + retain all their rights. + + This document and the information contained herein are provided on an + "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS + OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY, THE IETF TRUST AND + THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS + OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF + THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED + WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. + +Intellectual Property + + The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any + Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to + pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in + this document or the extent to which any license under such rights + might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has + made any independent effort to identify any such rights. 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