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SIMPLE                                                      H. Khartabil
Internet-Draft                                                     Telio
Expires: August 26, 2006                               February 22, 2006


               Instant Message Delivery and Read Receipts
                 draft-khartabil-simple-im-receipts-00

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Abstract

   Instant Messaging (IM) refers to the transfer of messages between
   users in near real-time.

   This document extends Message/CPIM message format to enable endpoints
   to request, create and send a delivery receipt as well as a read
   receipt for a page-mode as well as session mode instant messages.
   This document also describes how SIP and MSRP entities behave using
   this extension.




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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Constructing Requests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     3.1   Instant Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     3.2   Delivery Receipt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     3.3   Read Receipt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.4   Identifying Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   4.  Header Fields Formal Syntax  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   5.  Status Receipt XML Schema  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     5.1   Structure of XML-Encoded status-receipt  . . . . . . . . .  6
     5.2   MIME Type for status-receipt Document  . . . . . . . . . .  7
     5.3   The XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   6.  Transporting Message/CPIM messages using SIP . . . . . . . . .  7
     6.1   Endpoint Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       6.1.1   Sending Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       6.1.2   Sending Responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       6.1.3   Receiving Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     6.2   Intermediary Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   7.  Transporting Message/CPIM messages using MSRP  . . . . . . . .  9
     7.1   Endpoint Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       7.1.1   Sending Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       7.1.2   Sending Responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       7.1.3   Receiving Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     7.2   Intermediary Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   8.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     8.1   Forgery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     8.2   Confidentiality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     8.3   Non-Repudiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   9.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     9.1   message/status-receipt+xml MIME TYPE . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     9.2   URN Sub-Namespace Registration for
           urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:status-receipt  . . . . . . . . . . 13
     9.3   Schema Registration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     9.4   Message/CPIM Header Field registration . . . . . . . . . . 13
     9.5   Content-Disposition confirm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   10.   Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   11.   References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     11.1  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     11.2  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
       Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
       Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 16








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1.  Introduction

   Message/CPIM [2] is a message format used to generate instant
   messages.  SIP [9] can carry instant messages generated using
   message/CPIM in SIP MESSAGE requests [10].  The MSRP [11] SEND
   message can also be used to carry Message/CPIM messages.  This
   document extends Message/CPIM message format to enable endpoints to
   request, create and send a delivery receipt as well as a read receipt
   for a page-mode as well as session mode instant messages.  This
   document also describes how SIP and MSRP entities behave using this
   extension.

2.  Conventions

   In this document, the key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED',
   'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'MAY',
   and 'OPTIONAL' are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [1]
   and indicate requirement levels for compliant implementations.

3.  Constructing Requests

3.1  Instant Message

   A Message/CPIM formatted instant message is contructed using RFC 3862
   [2].  The content-type header field indicates the MIME type of the
   request payload.

   In this extension, the Message/CPIM MUST contain a Message-ID header
   if a delivery or read receipt is requested.  The Message-ID field is
   populated with a value that is unique in space and time.  This header
   field enables the message sender to match any delivery and/or read
   receipts and need not be present if the instant message sender is not
   requesting any receipts.

   The sender can request two types of delivery receipts: a failure
   delivery receipt and a success delivery receipt.  A failure delivery
   receipt is requested by including a Receipt-Request header field with
   value "negative-delivery".  Similarly, a success receipt is requested
   by including a Receipt-Request header field with value "positive-
   delivery".  Both types of receipts can be requested for the same
   message.

   The sender can also request a read receipt.  It is requested by
   including a Receipt-Request header field with value "read".

   The absence of this header or the presence of the header with empty
   value indicates that the sender is not requesting any receipts.  This
   aids receivers of instant messages that do not support this feature.



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   The Receipt-Request header fields can be comma separated.

   The default Content-Disposition of an instant message is "render".
   Therefore, the absence of such header indicates "render".

   If an endpoint sending an Instant message and has requested a
   positive-delivery, negative-delivery and/or read receipt, it MUST NOT
   start any timers waiting for the receipt.  There are no time limits
   associated with when receipts may be received.

   The formal syntax of the Request-Receipt header field can be found in
   Section 4.  The following in an example Message/CPIM instant message
   where the user requests positive and negative delivery receipts, but
   not read receipt:

         Content-type: Message/CPIM

         From: Alice <im:alice@example.com>
         To: Bob <im:bob@example.com>
         Message-ID: 34jk324j
         Receipt-Request: positive-delivery, negative-delivery
         Content-type: text/plain
         Content-length: 12

         Hello World


3.2  Delivery Receipt

   A delivery receipt is constructed in a similar fashion as an instant
   message, using RFC 3862 [2].  For delivery receipts, the content-type
   MUST be of type "message/status-receipt".  It is an XML document.
   The schema is described Section 5.  The delivery receipt MUST contain
   a Content-Disposition header field with value "confirm".  This
   indicates to the receiver that the contents of the message are a
   confirmation according to an earlier request for a receipt to an
   instant message.  The recipient SHOULD render to the end user a
   message indicating such confirmation.

   The delivery receipt SHOULD NOT contain a Message-ID header field
   since it is used for matching an instant message with its receipt
   and no receipts are ever requested for receipts.  The recipient of a
   delivery receipt MUST ignore the Message-ID header field if present.

   An example looks like the following:






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         Content-type: Message/CPIM

         From: Bob <im:bob@example.com>
         To: Alice <im:alice@example.com>
         Content-type: message/status-receipt+xml
         Content-Disposition: confirm
         Content-length: ...

         <status-receipt>
           <message-id>34jk324j</message-id>
           <recipient-uri>bob@example.com</recipient-uri>
           <type>delivery</type>
           <status>200</status>
           <note lang="en">The message was successfully Delivered</note>
         </status-receipt>

   Request-Receipt header SHOULD NOT appear in a Message/CPIM messages
   that represents a delivery receipt.  The recipient MUST ignore it if
   present

3.3  Read Receipt

   A read receipt is constructed in a similar fashion as the delivery
   receipt.  See Section 3.2 for details.

   An example looks like the following:

         Content-type: Message/CPIM

         From: Bob <im:bob@example.com>
         To: Alice <im:alice@example.com>
         Content-type: message/status-receipt+xml
         Content-Disposition: confirm
         Content-length: ...

         <status-receipt>
            <message-id>34jk324j</message-id>
            <recipient-uri>bob@example.com</recipient-uri>
            <type>read</type>
            <status>200</status>
            <note lang="en">The message has been read</note>
         </status-receipt>

   There are situations where the recipient user agent cannot determine
   if or when the message has been read.  The recipient user agent in
   this case generates a read receipt with a <status> value of "485".





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3.4  Identifying Messages

   Message/CPIM messages are typically carried in a transport protocol
   like SIP [9].  In the case of a "message/cpim" body in the request of
   the transport protocol, the message is an instant message if the
   content-type header field present in the message/cpim body has a
   value that is not "message/status-receipt+xml".

   A Message/CPIM message is identified as a delivery receipt by
   examining its contents.  In the case of a "message/cpim" body, the
   message is a delivery receipt if: the content-type header field
   present in the message/cpim body has a value of "message/
   status-receipt+xml", the Content-Disposition header field has a value
   of "confirm", and the <type> element in that xml body has a value of
   "delivery".  An endpoint matches a delivery receipt to an instant
   message by matching the Message-ID header field value with the
   <message-id> element value in the body of the delivery receipt.  If
   the message was delivered to multiple recipients, the <recipient-uri>
   element in the XML body is used to identify the recipient.

   A Message/CPIM message request is identified as a read receipt and is
   matched to an instant message in a similar fasion as a delivery
   receipt.  The difference is that the <type> element in that xml body
   has a value of "read".

4.  Header Fields Formal Syntax

   The following syntax specification uses the message header syntax as
   described in Section 3 of RFC3862 [2].

   Receipt-Request =
             "Receipt-Request" ": " (receipt-req *(COMMA receipt-req))
   receipt-req = "negative-delivery" / "positive-delivery" / "read"

   Message-ID = "Message-ID" ": " Token


5.  Status Receipt XML Schema

5.1  Structure of XML-Encoded status-receipt

   A status-receipt is an XML document [7] that MUST be well-formed and
   MUST be valid according to schemas, including extension schemas,
   available to the validater and applicable to the XML document.  The
   status-receipt documents MUST be based on XML 1.0 and MUST be encoded
   using UTF-8.

   The namespace identifier for elements defined by this specification



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   is a URN [4], using the namespace identifier 'ietf' defined by [5]
   and extended by [3].  This urn is:
   urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:status-receipt.

   This namespace declaration indicates the namespace on which the
   status receipt is based on.

5.2  MIME Type for status-receipt Document

   The MIME type for the status-receipt document is "message/
   status-receipt+xml".  The SIP [9] MESSAGE request [10] that is used
   to carry the status receipt that also carries payload type
   information MUST identify the payload as MIME type "simple-
   filter+xml" in the Content-Type header field.

5.3  The XML Schema



6.  Transporting Message/CPIM messages using SIP

6.1  Endpoint Behaviour

6.1.1  Sending Requests

   A SIP MESSAGE request is constructed using RFC 3428 [10].  The
   content-type header field indicates the MIME type of the request
   payload.  When using this extension, the content-type header field
   MUST be of MIME type "message/cpim" [2] for both Instant Messages and
   Receipts.  The payload is contructed according to Section 3.

   A SIP MESSAGE request to multiple recipients is contracted in a
   similar manner as a SIP MESSAGE request to a single recipient.  The
   differences are indicated in [13].

6.1.2  Sending Responses

   An endpoint receiving a SIP MESSAGE request constructs a SIP response
   according to RFC3428 [10].  Of course, an endpoint will send a
   response to the MESSAGE request regardless of the receipt it has been
   asked for or the type of MESSAGE request it has received (instant
   message or receipt).

6.1.3  Receiving Requests

6.1.3.1  Instant Message

   A SIP MESSAGE request is identified as an instant message by



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   examining its contents according to Section 3.4.

   If an endpoint received a SIP MESSAGE request that is an IM and that
   contains a Messge/CPIM payload that requested a positive-delivery
   receipt, and that endpoint has constructed and sent a SIP 2xx class
   response, it MUST generate a positive-delivery receipt after making
   sure that the instant message has been delivered to the user or
   application (a GW, for example, can generate a 2xx response before it
   has been guaranteed that the final recipient has actually received
   the message).  The positive-delivery receipt is constructed according
   to Section 3.2.  The message/cpim message is then placed as the
   payload in a SIP MESSAGE request.

   If an endpoint received a SIP MESSAGE request that contains a Messge/
   CPIM payload that requested a negative-delivery, and that endpoint
   has constructed and sent a 2xx class response, it MUST generate a
   negative-delivery receipt if it learnt that the final recipient or
   application did not receive the instant message (a GW, for example,
   can generate a 2xx response before it has been guaranteed that the
   final recipient has actually received the message).  The negative-
   delivery receipt is constructed according to Section 3.3.  The
   message/cpim message is then placed as the payload in a SIP MESSAGE
   request.

   If an endpoint received a SIP MESSAGE request that requested a
   negative-delivery receipt, and the endpoint has constructed and sent
   an error response, it MUST NOT generate a negative-delivery receipt.

6.1.3.2  Delivery Receipt

   A SIP MESSAGE request is identified as delivery receipt by examining
   its contents according to Section 3.4.

6.1.3.3  Read Receipt

   A SIP MESSAGE request is identified as read receipt by examining its
   contents according to Section 3.4.

6.2  Intermediary Behaviour

   An intermediary that behaves as an application server or a gateway
   needs to conform to this section.

   A SIP MESSAGE request to multiple recipients is forwarded according
   to [13].

   If an intermediary generates a SIP 2xx class response to a SIP
   MESSAGE request it has received that is an instant message, it



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   examines if the body was of type "message/cpim".  If so, it checks if
   there is the header Receipt-Request with a value "positive-delivery"
   and/or "negative-delivery".  If so, it needs to send a delivery
   receipt as soon as it receives a transactional response for the
   instant message.  The contruction of a delivery receipt is performed
   according to Section 3.2.

   If the Receipt-Request contains a value of "positive-delivery", the
   intermediary MUST NOT generate a delivery receipt if it receives a
   SIP 2xx class response for the sent instant message.  This is in
   anticipation of a failure downstream after a 2xx response has been
   generated.

   If the Receipt-Request contains a value of "negative-delivery", the
   intermediary MUST generate a delivery receipt if it receives a SIP
   4xx, 5xx or 6xx class final response for the sent instant message or
   if it has received a SIP 2xx class response followed by a negative-
   delivery receipt.  The generation of such receipt is the same
   procedure as that for an endpoint (Section 3.2).

   The <recipient-uri> element of the XML body is populated with the URI
   of the instant message recipient.

   If an intermediary receives a SIP MESSAGE request carrying a read-
   receipt, it statelessly forwards that request.

7.  Transporting Message/CPIM messages using MSRP

7.1  Endpoint Behaviour

7.1.1  Sending Requests

   An MSRP SEND request is constructed using [11].  The content-type
   header field indicates the MIME type of the request payload.  When
   using this extension, the content-type header field MUST be of MIME
   type "message/cpim" [2] for both Instant Messages and Receipts.  The
   payload is contructed according to Section 3.

   MSRP has built in delivery reports and therefore does not require
   delivery receipts as defined in this specification.  Read Receipts
   and any other defined receipts, however, as still relevant.
   Therefore, an endpoint MUST NOT create MSRP SEND requests requiring a
   positive-delivery receipt or a negative-delivery receipt.

   For SEND requests that are receipts, the sender MUST NOT request a
   delivery report (an MSRP REPORT to a SEND request).  I.e.  It MUST
   populate the request with a Failure-Report header field with the
   value "no" and with a Success-Report header field with value "no" (or



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   alternatively leave out that header field since it defaults to "no").
   The sender also MUST NOT request a receipt for a SEND request that is
   a receipt.

   An MSRP SEND request to multiple recipients is contracted in a
   similar manner as a SEND request to a single recipient.  The
   differences are indicated in [12].

7.1.2  Sending Responses

   An endpoint receiving an MSRP SEND request constructs an MSRP
   response according to  [11] if needed.  Section 7.2 of  [11] describe
   when to send and when not to send an MSRP response.  For SEND
   requests that are receipts, a response MUST NOT be generated.  This
   is not a special case; for SEND requests that contain a Failure-
   Report header field with the value "no" and a Success-Report header
   field with value "no" the sender does not need to start a timer and
   the receiver does not send a transaction response.

7.1.3  Receiving Requests

7.1.3.1  Instant Message

   An MSRP SEND request is identified as an instant message by examining
   its contents according to Section 3.4.

7.1.3.2  Read Report

   An MSRP SEND request is identified as read receipt by examining its
   contents according to Section 3.4.  The receiver MUST ignore any
   requests for delivery receipts, or any kind of receipts for a
   receipt.

7.2  Intermediary Behaviour

   An intermediary that behaves as an application server or a gateway
   needs to conform to this section.

   An MSRP SEND request to multiple recipients is forwarded according to
   [12].

   MSRP has built in delivery reports and therefore does not require
   delivery receipts as defined in this specification.  An MSRP
   intermediary does not react to receipt requests.

8.  Security Considerations

   Instant Message receipts provide a fine-grained view of the activity



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   of the entity receiving the IM and thus deserves particularly careful
   confidentiality protection so that only the intended recipient of the
   receipt will receive the receipt message (in most cases, the intended
   recipient of the receipt is the sender of the IM).

   Since the receipt messages are carried by using the IM protocol
   itself, all security considerations of the underlying IM protocol
   also apply to the receipt messages.

   The following security considerations apply when using message
   receipts:

8.1  Forgery

   Message receipts may be forged as easily as ordinary Instant Message.
   User agents and intermediaries that wish to make automatic use of
   receipts should take appropriate precautions to minimize the
   potential damage from denial-of-service attacks.  Security threats
   related to forged message receipts include the sending of a falsified
   receipt when the indicated disposition of the message has not
   actually ocurred.  For example, read receipt could be forged to
   indicate that a IM recipient has read the instant message.
   Unsolicited receipts is also another form of forgery.

8.2  Confidentiality

   There may be cases where an instant message recipient does not wish
   to reveal the information that he has received or in fact read the
   instant message.  In this situation, it is acceptable for the UA to
   silently ignore requests for a receipt.

   There are situations where a user sends an IM to a list who's member
   infomration is not disclosed and requesting receipts.  In this
   situation, the sender will earn of the list members.  The list server
   MUST only deliver one receipt indicating that all the members of the
   list have received on read the IM (by leaving out the <recipient-uri>
   element).  Alternatively, the list server MAY reject the IM.

   An unencrypted receipt could reveal confidential information about an
   encrypted instant message.  It is a MUST that the same level of
   security applied to an IM to be applied to its receipts.  For
   example, if an IM is signed and encrypted, and receipt must also be
   signed and encrypted.

8.3  Non-Repudiation

   Message receipts cannot be relied on as a guarantee that an instant
   message was or was not seen by the recipient.  Even if receipts are



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   not actively forged, they may be lost in transit.  The receipt
   issuing mechanism may be bypassed in some manner by the recipient on
   the IM. .

9.  IANA Considerations

9.1  message/status-receipt+xml MIME TYPE

   This document registers a new MIME type "message/status-receipt+xml",
   and registers a new XML namespace.

   This specification follows the guidelines of RFC3023 [6].

   MIME media type: message

   MIME subtype name: status-receipt+xml

   Mandatory parameters: none

   Optional parameters: Same as charset parameter application/xml as
   specified in RFC 3023 [6].

   Encoding considerations: Same as encoding considerations of
   application/xml as specified in RFC 3023 [6].

   Security considerations: See section 10 of RFC 3023 [6] and Section 8
   of this document.

   Interoperability considerations: none.

   Published specification: This document.

   Applications which use this media type: This document type has been
   used to support SIP and MSRP based instant messaging.

   Additional information: None

   Magic number: None

   File extension: .cl or .xml

   Macintosh file type code: "TEXT"

   Personal and email address for further information: Hisham Khartabil
   (hisham.khartabil@telio.no)

   Intended Usage: COMMON




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   Author/change controller: The IETF .

9.2  URN Sub-Namespace Registration for
     urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:status-receipt

   This section registers a new XML namespace, as per guidelines in the
   IETF XML Registry [3].

   URI: The URI for this namespace is
   urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:status-receipt.

   Registrant Contact: IETF, SIMPLE working group, Hisham Khartabil
   (hisham.khartabil@telio.no) .

9.3  Schema Registration

   This section registers a new XML schema per the procedures in [3].

   URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:status-receipt

   Registrant Contact: IETF, SIMPLE working group, Hisham Khartabil
   (hisham.khartabil@telio.no)

   The XML for this schema can be found as the sole content of
   Section 5.3. .

9.4  Message/CPIM Header Field registration

   This document registers the following message/cpim header fields in
   the cpim-headers registry:

   Message-ID - [RFCXXXX]

   Receipt-Request - [RFCXXXX] .

9.5  Content-Disposition confirm

   content-disposition confirm .

10.  Acknowledgements

   The author would like to thank Paul Kyzivat, Ben Campbell, Adam Roach
   and Gonzalo Camarillo for their comments and support.

11.  References






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11.1  Normative References

   [1]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
        Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [2]  Klyne, G. and D. Atkins, "Common Presence and Instant Messaging
        (CPIM): Message Format", RFC 3862, August 2004.

   [3]  Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", RFC 3688, January 2004.

   [4]  Moats, R., "The URN Syntax", RFC 2141, May 1997.

   [5]  Moats, R., "The URN Namespace for IETF Documents", RFC 2648,
        August 1999.

   [6]  Murata, M., "XML Media Types", RFC 3023, March 1997.

   [7]  Bray, T., "Exensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second
        Edition)",  W3C CR CR-xml11-20011006, October 2000.

   [8]  Ramsdell, B., "S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification",
        RFC 2633, June 1999.

11.2  Informative References

   [9]   Rosenberg et al., J., Shulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
         A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E. Schooler,
         "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, June 2002.

   [10]  Campbell, B., "SIP Extension for Instant Messaging", RFC 3428,
         December 2002.

   [11]  Campbell, B., "The Message Session Relay Protocol",
          draft-ietf-simple-message-sessions-10, February 2005.

   [12]  Niemi, A., "Multi-part IM Sessions Using MSRP",
          draft-niemi-simple-chat-04, February 2006.

   [13]  Garcia-Martin, M. and G. Camarillo, "Multiple-Recipient MESSAGE
         Requests in SIP",  draft-ietf-sipping-uri-list-message-02,
         November 2004.










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