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The Application Exchange (APEX) Presence Service
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
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