SIPPING Working Group G. Camarillo Internet-Draft Ericsson Expires: July 30, 2007 A. Johnston Avaya January 26, 2007 Conference Establishment Using Request-Contained Lists in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) draft-ietf-sip-uri-list-conferencing-01.txt Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on July 30, 2007. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007). Abstract This document describes how to create a conference using SIP URI-list services. In particular, it describes a mechanism that allows a user agent client to provide a conference server with the initial list of participants using an INVITE-contained URI-list. Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 1] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. User Agent Client Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. Response Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2. Re-INVITE Request Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. URI-List Document Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. Conference Server Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5.1. Re-INVITE Request Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 9. Acknowledges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 14 Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 2] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 1. Introduction Section 5.4 of RFC 4579 [5] describes how to create a conference using ad-hoc SIP (which is specified in RFC 3261 [4]) methods. The client sends an INVITE request to a conference factory URI and receives the actual conference URI, which contains the "isfocus" feature tag, in the Contact header field of a response - typically a 200 (OK) response. Once the UAC (User Agent Client) obtains the conference URI, it can add participants to the newly created conference in several ways, which are described in RFC 4579 [5]. Some environments have tough requirements regarding conference establishment time. They require the UAC to be able to request the creation of an ad-hoc conference and to provide the conference server with the initial set of participants in a single operation. This document describes how to meet this requirement using the mechanism to transport URI-lists in SIP messages described in RFC xxxx [6]. 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 RFC 2119 [1]. 3. User Agent Client Procedures A UAC that wants to include the set of initial participants in its initial INVITE request to create an ad-hoc conference, adds a body whose disposition type is 'recipient-list', as defined in RFC xxxx [6], with a URI-list that contains the participants that the UAC wants the conference server to invite. Additionally, the UAC MUST include the 'recipient-list-invite' option-tag, which is registered with the IANA in Section 8 in a Require header field. The UAC sends this INVITE request to the conference factory URI. 3.1. Response Handling The status code in the response to the INVITE request does not provide any information about whether or not the conference server was able to bring the users in the URI-list into the conference. That is, a 200 (OK) response means that the conference was created successfully, that the UAC that generated the INVITE request is in the conference, and that the server understood the URI-list. If the UAC wishes to obtain information about the status of other users in Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 3] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 the conference it SHOULD use general conference mechanisms, such as the conference package, which is defined in RFC 4575 [9]. 3.2. Re-INVITE Request Generation The previous sections have specified how to include a URI-list in an initial INVITE request to a conference server. Once the INVITE- initiated dialog between the UAC and the conference server has been established, the UAC can send subsequent INVITE requests (typically referred to as re-INVITE requests) to the conference server to, for example, modify the characteristics of the media exchanged with the server. At this point, there are no semantics associated with resource-list bodies in re-INVITE requests (although future extensions may define them). Therefore, UACs SHOULD NOT include resource-list bodies in re-INVITE requests sent to a conference server. Note that a difference between an initial INVITE request and a re- INVITE request is that while the initial INVITE request is sent to the conference factory URI, the re-INVITE request is sent to the URI provided by the server in a Contact header field when the dialog was established. Therefore, from the UAC's point of view, the resource identified by the former URI supports 'recipient- list' bodies while the resource identified by the latter does not support them. 4. URI-List Document Format As described in RFC xxxx [6], specifications of individual URI-list services, like the conferencing service described here, need to specify a default format for 'recipient-list' bodies used within the particular service. The default format for 'recipient-list' bodies for conferencing UAs (User Agents) is the XML resource list format (which is specified in RFC xxxx [7]) extended with the XML Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists (which is specified in RFC xxxx [8]). Consequently, conferencing UACs generating 'recipient- list' bodies MUST support both of these formats and MAY support other formats. Conferencing servers able to handle 'recipient-list' bodies MUST support both of these formats and MAY support other formats. As described in the XML Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists (which is specified in RFC xxxx [8]), each URI can be tagged with a 'copyControl' attribute set to either "to", "cc", or "bcc", indicating the role in which the Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 4] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 recipient will get the INVITE request. Additionally, URIs can be tagged with the 'anonymize' attribute to prevent that the conference server discloses the target URI in a URI-list. In addition, the XML Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists (which is specified in RFC xxxx [8]) defines a 'recipient-list-history' body that contains the list of recipients. The default format for 'recipient-list-history' bodies for conferencing UAs is also the XML resource list document format specified in RFC xxxx [7] extended with the XML Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists specified in [8]. Consequently, conferencing UACs able to generate 'recipient- list-history' bodies MUST support these formats and MAY support others. Conferencing UAs able to understand 'recipient-list-history' MUST support these formats and MAY support others. Conferencing servers able to handle 'recipient-list-history' bodies MUST support these formats and MAY support others. Nevertheless, the XML resource list document specified in RFC xxxx [7] provides features, such as hierarchical lists and the ability to include entries by reference relative to the XCAP root URI, that are not needed by the conferencing service defined in this document, which only needs to transfer a flat list of URIs between a UA (User Agent) and the conference server. Therefore, when using the default resource list document, conferencing UAs SHOULD use flat lists (i.e., no hierarchical lists) and SHOULD NOT use elements. A conference factory application receiving a URI-list with more information than what has just been described MAY discard all the extra information. Figure 1 shows an example of a flat list that follows the XML resource list document (specified in RFC xxxx [7]) extended with the XML Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists (specified in RFC xxxx [8]). Figure 1: URI-List Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 5] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 5. Conference Server Procedures Conference servers that are able to receive and process INVITE requests with a 'recipient-list' body SHOULD include a 'recipient- list-invite' option-tag in a Supported header field when responding to OPTIONS requests. On reception of an INVITE request containing a 'recipient-list' body as described in Section 3, a conference server MUST follow the rules described in RFC 4579 [5] to create ad-hoc conferences. Once the ad- hoc conference is created, the conference server SHOULD attempt to add the participants in the URI-list to the conference as if their addition had been requested using any of the methods described in RFC 4579 [5]. Once the conference server has created the ad-hoc conference and has attempted to add the initial set of participants, the conference server behaves as a regular conference server and MUST follow the rules in RFC 4579 [5]. The incoming INVITE request will contain a URI-list body or reference (as specified in RFC xxxx [6]) with the actual list of recipients. If this URI-list includes resources tagged with the 'copyControl' attribute set to a value of "to" or "cc", the conference server SHOULD include a URI-list in each of the outgoing INVITE requests. This list SHOULD be formatted according to the XML format for representing resource lists (specified in RFC xxxx [7]) and the copyControl extension specified in RFC xxxx [8]. The URI-list service MUST follow the procedures specified in RFC xxxx [8] with respect to the handling of the 'anonymize', 'count' and 'copyControl' attributes. If the conference server includes a URI-list in an outgoing INVITE request, it MUST include a Content-Disposition header field (which is specified in RFC 2183 [2]) with the value set to 'recipient-list- history' and a 'handling' parameter (as specified in RFC 3204 [3]) set to "optional". 5.1. Re-INVITE Request Handling At this point, there are no semantics associated with resource-list bodies in re-INVITE requests (although future extensions may define them). Therefore, a conference server receiving a re-INVITE request with a resource-list body and, consequently, a 'recipient-list- invite' option-tag, following standard SIP procedures, rejects it with a 420 (Bad Extension), which carries an Unsupported header field listing the 'recipient-list-invite' option-tag. Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 6] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 This is because the resource identified by the conference URI does not actually support this extension. On the other hand, the resource identified by the conference factory URI does support this extension and, consequently, would include the 'recipient- list-invite' option-tag in, for example, responses to OPTIONS requests. 6. Example Figure 2 shows an example of operation. A UAC sends an INVITE request (F1) that contains an SDP body and a URI-list to the conference server. The conference server answers with a 200 (OK) response and generates an INVITE request to each of the UASs (USer Agent Servers) identifies by the URIs included in the URI-list. The conference server includes SDP and a manipulated URI-list in each of the outgoing INVITE requests. +--------+ +---------+ +--------+ +--------+ +--------+ |SIP UAC | | confer. | |SIP UAS | |SIP UAS | |SIP UAS | | | | server | | 1 | | 2 | | n | +--------+ +---------+ +--------+ +--------+ +--------+ | | | | | | F1. INVITE | | | | | ---------------->| | | | | F2. 200 OK | | | | |<---------------- | F3. INVITE | | | | | ------------->| | | | | F4. INVITE | | | | | ------------------------>| | | | F5. INVITE | | | | | ----------------------------------->| | | F6. 200 OK | | | | |<------------- | | | | | F7. 200 OK | | | | |<------------------------ | | | | F8. 200 OK | | | | |<----------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Figure 2: Example of operation Figure 3 shows an example of the INVITE request F1, which carries a multipart/mixed body composed of two other bodies: an application/sdp body that describes the session and an application/resource-lists+xml body that contains the list of target URIs. Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 7] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 INVITE sip:conf-fact@example.com SIP/2.0 Via: SIP/2.0/TCP atlanta.example.com ;branch=z9hG4bKhjhs8ass83 Max-Forwards: 70 To: "Conf Factory" From: Alice ;tag=32331 Call-ID: d432fa84b4c76e66710 CSeq: 1 INVITE Contact: Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, BYE, REFER Allow-Events: dialog Accept: application/sdp, message/sipfrag Require: recipient-list-invite Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="boundary1" Content-Length: 690 --boundary1 Content-Type: application/sdp v=0 o=alice 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 atlanta.example.com s=- c=IN IP4 192.0.2.1 t=0 0 m=audio 20000 RTP/AVP 0 a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000 m=video 20002 RTP/AVP 31 a=rtpmap:31 H261/90000 --boundary1 Content-Type: application/resource-lists+xml Content-Disposition: recipient-list Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 8] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 --boundary1-- Figure 3: INVITE request received at the conference server The INVITE requests F3, F4, and F5 are similar in nature. All those INVITE requests contain a multipart/mixed body which is composed of two other bodies: an application/sdp body describing the session and an application/resource-lists+xml containing the list of recipients. The application/resource-lists+xml bodies are not equal to the application/resource-lists+xml included in the received INVITE request F1, because the conference server has anonymized those URIs tagged with the 'anonymize' attribute and has removed those URIs tagged with a "bcc" 'copyControl' attribute. Figure 4 shows an example of the message F3. Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 9] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 INVITE sip:bill@example.com SIP/2.0 Via: SIP/2.0/TCP conference.example.com ;branch=z9hG4bKhjhs8as454 Max-Forwards: 70 To: From: Conference Server ;tag=234332 Call-ID: 389sn189dasdf CSeq: 1 INVITE Contact: ;isfocus Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, BYE, REFER Allow-Events: dialog, conference Accept: application/sdp, message/sipfrag Require: recipient-list-invite Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="boundary1" Content-Length: 690 --boundary1 Content-Type: application/sdp v=0 o=conf 2890844343 2890844343 IN IP4 conference.example.com s=- c=IN IP4 192.0.2.5 t=0 0 m=audio 40000 RTP/AVP 0 a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000 m=video 40002 RTP/AVP 31 a=rtpmap:31 H261/90000 --boundary1 Content-Type: application/resource-lists+xml Content-Disposition: recipient-list-history; handling=optional --boundary1-- Figure 4: INVITE request sent by the conference server Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 10] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 7. Security Considerations This document discusses setup of SIP conferences using a request- contained URI-list. Both conferencing and URI-lists services have specific security requirements which will be summarized here. Conferences generally have authorization rules about who can or cannot join a conference, what type of media can or cannot be used, etc. This information is used by the focus to admit or deny participation in a conference. It is RECOMMENDED that these types of authorization rules be used to provide security for a SIP conference. For this authorization information to be used, the focus needs to be able to authenticate potential participants. Normal SIP mechanisms including Digest authentication and certificates can be used. These conference specific security requirements are discussed further in the requirements and framework documents. For conference creation using a list, there are some additional security considerations. The Framework and Security Considerations for SIP URI-List Services (which is documented in RFC xxxx [6]) discusses issues related to SIP URI-list services. Given that a conference server sending INVITE requests to a set of users acts as an URI-list service, implementations of conference servers that handle lists MUST follow the security-related rules in RFC xxxx [6]. These rules include mandatory authentication and authorization of clients, and opt-in lists. 8. IANA Considerations This document defines the 'recipient-list-invite' SIP option-tag. It should be registered in the Option Tags subregistry under the SIP parameter registry. The following is the description to be used in the registration. +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+ | Name | Description | Reference | +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+ | recipient-list-invite | The body contains a list of | [RFCXXXX] | | | URIs that indicates the | | | | recipients of the SIP INVITE | | | | request | | +------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+ Table 1: Registration of the 'recipient-list-invite' Option-Tag in SIP Note to IANA and the RFC editor: replace RFCXXXX above with the RFC Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 11] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 number of this specification. 9. Acknowledges Cullen Jennings, Hisham Khartabil, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Keith Drage provided useful comments on this document. Miguel Garcia- Martin assembled the dependencies to the 'copyControl' attribute extension. 10. References 10.1. Normative References [1] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [2] Troost, R., Dorner, S., and K. Moore, "Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content- Disposition Header Field", RFC 2183, August 1997. [3] 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. [4] 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. [5] Johnston, A. and O. Levin, "Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Control - Conferencing for User Agents", BCP 119, RFC 4579, August 2006. [6] Camarillo, G. and A. Roach, "Framework and Security Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)-List Services", draft-ietf-sipping-uri-services-06 (work in progress), September 2006. [7] Rosenberg, J., "Extensible Markup Language (XML) Formats for Representing Resource Lists", draft-ietf-simple-xcap-list-usage-05 (work in progress), February 2005. [8] Garcia-Martin, M. and G. Camarillo, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists", draft-ietf-sipping-capacity-attribute-03 Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 12] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 (work in progress), December 2006. 10.2. Informative References [9] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., and O. Levin, "A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference State", RFC 4575, August 2006. Authors' Addresses Gonzalo Camarillo Ericsson Hirsalantie 11 Jorvas 02420 Finland Email: Gonzalo.Camarillo@ericsson.com Alan Johnston Avaya St. Louis, MO 63124 USA Email: alan@sipstation.com Camarillo & Johnston Expires July 30, 2007 [Page 13] Internet-Draft INVITE-Contained Lists January 2007 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007). 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. 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