Network Working Group C. Jennings Request for Comments: 4770 Cisco Systems Category: Standards Track J. Reschke, Ed. greenbytes January 2007 vCard Extensions for Instant Messaging (IM)
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Abstract
This document describes an extension to vCard to support Instant
Messaging (IM) and Presence Protocol (PP) applications. IM and PP
are becoming increasingly common ways of communicating, and users
want to save this contact information in their address books. It
allows a URI that is associated with IM or PP to be specified inside a vCard.
Table of Contents
1. Overview (2)
2. IANA Considerations (3)
3. Formal Grammar (4)
4. Example (4)
5. Security Considerations (4)
6. Acknowledgments (4)
7. References (5)
7.1. Normative References (5)
7.2. Informational References (5)
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1. Overview
As more and more people use various instant messaging (IM) and
presence protocol (PP) applications, it becomes important for them to be able to share this contact address information, along with the
rest of their contact information. RFC 2425 [1] and RFC 2426 [2]
define a standard format for this information, which is referred to
as vCard. This document defines a new type in a vCard for
representing instant IM and PP URIs. It is very similar to existing types for representing email address and telephone contact
information.
The type entry to hold this new contact information is an IMPP type. The IMPP entry has a single URI (see RFC 3986 [3]) that indicates the address of a service that provides IM, PP, or both. Also defined are some parameters that give hints as to when certain URIs would be
appropriate. A given vCard can have multiple IMPP entries, but each entry can contain only one URI. Each IMPP entry can contain multiple parameters. Any combination of parameters is valid, although a
parameter should occur, at most, once in a given IMPP entry.
The type of URI indicates what protocols might be usable for
accessing it, but this document does not define any of the types.
For example, a URI type of
o "sip" [5] indicates to use SIP/SIMPLE,
o "xmpp" [6] indicates to use XMPP,
o "irc" indicates to use IRC,
o "ymsgr" indicates to use yahoo,
o "msn" might indicate to use Microsoft messenger,
o "aim" indicates to use AOL, and
o "im" [7] or "pres" [8] indicates that a CPIM or CPP gateway should be used.
The normative definition of this new vCard type is given in Section
2, and an informational ABNF is provided in Section 3.
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2. IANA Considerations
The required email to define this extension (as defined in RFC 2425
[1]) was sent on October 29, 2004, to the
mailing list with the subject "Registration of text/directory MIME
type IMPP" (see </ietf-mime-direct/mail-
archive/msg00068.html>).
This specification updates the "text/directory MIME Types"
subregistry in the "text/directory MIME Registrations" registry at
/assignments/text-directory-registrations with the following information:
Type name: IMPP
Type purpose: To specify the URI for instant messaging and presence
protocol communications with the object the vCard represents.
Type encoding: 8bit
Type value: A single URI. The type of the URI indicates the protocol that can be used for this contact.
Type special notes: The type may include the type parameter "TYPE" to specify an intended use for the URI. The TYPE parameter values
include one or more of the following:
o An indication of the type of communication for which this URI is
appropriate. This can be a value of PERSONAL or BUSINESS.
o An indication of the location of a device associated with this
URI. Values can be HOME, WORK, or MOBILE.
o The value PREF indicates this is a preferred address and has the
same semantics as the PREF value in a TEL type.
Additional information can be found in RFC 4770.
Intended usage: COMMON
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3. Formal Grammar
The following ABNF grammar [4] extends the grammar found in RFC 2425 [1] (Section 5.8.2) and RFC 2426 [2] (Section 4).
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param = impp-param ; Only impp parameters are allowed
value = URI
; URI defined in Section 3 of [3]
impp-param = "TYPE" "=" impp-type *("," impp-type)
impp-type = "PERSONAL" / "BUSINESS" / ; purpose of communications
"HOME" / "WORK" / "MOBILE" /
"PREF" /
iana-token / x-name;
; Values are case insensitive
4. Example
BEGIN:vCard
VERSION:3.0
FN:Alice Doe
IMPP;TYPE=personal,pref:im:alice@example
END:vCard
5. Security Considerations
This does not introduce additional security issues beyond the current vCard specification. It is worth noting that many people consider
their presence information more sensitive than other address高效
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information. Any system that stores or transfers vCards needs to
carefully consider the privacy issues around this information.
6. Acknowledgments
Thanks to Brian Carpenter, Lars Eggert, Ted Hardie, Paul Hoffman, Sam Roberts, and Pekka Pessi for their comments.
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7. References
7.1. Normative References
[1] Howes, T., Smith, M., and F. Dawson, "A MIME Content-Type for
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贿选案Directory Information", RFC 2425, September 1998. [2] Dawson, F. and T. Howes, "vCard MIME Directory Profile", RFC
2426, September 1998.
[3] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986,
January 2005.
[4] Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
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Specifications: ABNF", RFC 4234, October 2005.
伽马7.2. Informational References
[5] 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.
[6] Saint-Andre, P., "Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible
Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)", RFC 4622, July 2006.
[7] Peterson, J., "Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM)", RFC 3860, August 2004.
[8] Peterson, J., "Common Profile for Presence (CPP)", RFC 3859,
August 2004.
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Authors’ Addresses
Cullen Jennings
Cisco Systems
170 West Tasman Drive
MS: SJC-21/2
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
Phone: +1 408 902-3341
EMail: fluffy@cisco
Julian F. Reschke (editor)
greenbytes GmbH
Hafenweg 16
Muenster, NW 48155
Germany
Phone: +49 251 2807760
EMail: schke@greenbytes.de
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