xeps/inbox/privilege-component.xml

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<header>
  <title>Privileged Components</title>
  <abstract>This specification provides a way for XMPP components to have a privileged access to entities data</abstract>
  <legal>
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  </legal>
  <number>xxxx</number>
  <status>ProtoXEP</status>
  <type>Standards Track</type>
  <sig>Standards</sig>
  <approver>Council</approver>
  <dependencies>
    <spec>XMPP Core</spec>
    <spec>XEP-0114</spec>
    <spec>XEP-0004</spec>
  </dependencies>
  <supersedes/>
  <supersededby/>
  <shortname>NOT_YET_ASSIGNED</shortname>
  <author>
    <firstname>Jérôme</firstname>
    <surname>Poisson</surname>
    <email>goffi@goffi.org</email>
    <jid>goffi@jabber.fr</jid>
  </author>
  <revision>
    <version>0.0.1</version>
    <date>2014-05-09</date>
    <initials>jp</initials>
    <remark><p>First draft.</p></remark>
  </revision>
</header>
<section1 topic='Introduction' anchor='intro'>
    <p>XMPP components are used for long through &xep0114;, but are quite limited: they have a restricted access to other entities data, similar to what a client can do. This is sufficient for components like gateways, but very limiting for more complex components like a PubSub service. The goal of this XEP is to allow a component to have a "privileged" status, and access an entity data with the same privileges than the entity itself, that means send and receive IQ stanzas on its behalf.</p>
    <p>Privileged component have numerous advantages, including:</p>
        <ul>
            <li>a step forward in decentralization: it is possible for a component to do tasks which were before reserved to server itself. For example, a privileged pubsub component can offer roster access model</li>
            <li>better integration of component: a gateway can add items to an entity roster itslef</li>
            <li>possibility to overpass a server limitation</li>
            <li>quick development cycle: developers can implement the component they need without waiting for a new server release</li>
            <li>server agnostic</li>
        </ul>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Requirements' anchor='reqs'>
    <p>A privileged component can be used in two modes:</p>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>admin</strong> mode, where it is installed by the server administrator</li>
            <li><strong>client</strong> mode, where it can be installed by any user</li>
        </ul>
    <p>In <em>admin</em> mode, the component SHOULD be able to emit IQ stanzas in the same way as any entity, including managing roster or accessing persistent storage</p>
    <p>In <em>client</em> mode, a component MUST have an explicit autorization for any IQ namespace he wants to use. Client MUST be able to check and revoke granted permssions.</p>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Glossary' anchor='glossary'>
  <ul>
    <li><strong>Component</strong> — the privileged component.</li>
    <li><strong>Client</strong> — the entity that the component wants to manage.</li>
  </ul>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Admin Mode Use Cases' anchor='admin_usecases'>

    <section2 topic='Permission Request Use Case' anchor='admin_perm'>
        <section3 topic='Component request privileged status of admin' anchor='req_status'>
            <p>Once the component is authentified and stream is started as explained in <strong>XEP-0114</strong>, the component can request its privileged status. It do it by sending an IQ stanza with <strong>'urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0'</strong> namespace</p>
            <example caption='Component asks for admin privilege'><![CDATA[
<iq from='pubsub.capulet.net' type='get' id='privilege1'>
    <query xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0' type='request' privilege='admin'/>
</iq>
            ]]></example>
        </section3>
        <section3 topic='Server Accept Admin Privilege' anchor='accept_status'>
            <p>If the server accept the privileged status (e.g.: admin status specified in configuration), it MUST return empty IQ result stanza:</p>
            <example caption='Server accept admin privilege'><![CDATA[
<iq from='capulet.net' to='pubsub.capulet.net' type='result' id='privilege1' />
            ]]></example>
        </section3>
        <section3 topic='Server Reject Admin Privilege' anchor='reject_status'>
            <p>If the server reject the privileged status, it MUST return a &forbidden; error:</p>
            <example caption='Server reject admin privilege'><![CDATA[
<iq from='capulet.net' to='pubsub.capulet.net' type='error' id='privilege1'>
    <error type='cancel'>
        <forbidden xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/>
    </error>
</iq>
            ]]></example>
        </section3>
    </section2>

    <section2 topic='Privileged Component Send IQ Stanzas' anchor='priv_iq_admin'>
        <p>Sending an IQ stanzas is done by remplacing the &IQ; with a &lt;privilege/&gt; element of namespace <strong>'urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0'</strong>, and including it in a global IQ stanza. The &lt;privilege/&gt; element is then similar to the IQ stanza the client would have sent. In the following example, the PubSub service want to know juliet's roster because she own a node with roster access model:</p>
            <example caption='Privileged Component Send A Roster Stanza'><![CDATA[
<iq from='pubsub.capulet.net' type='get' id='roster1'>
    <privilege xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0'
        from='juliet@example.com'
        type='get'>
        <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster'/>
    </privilege>
</iq>
            ]]></example>

        <p>The server then answer normaly, as it would have done with the client entity:</p>
            <example caption='Server Answer To Privileged Component'><![CDATA[
<iq id='roster1'
    to='pubsub.caputet.net'
    type='result'>
    <query xmlns='jabber:iq:roster' ver='ver7'>
        <item jid='nurse@example.com'/>
        <item jid='romeo@example.net'/>
    </query>
</iq>
            ]]></example>

        <p>In the following example, the sync.capulet.net privileged component want to access client's bookmarks to synchronize them with an online service. It can request the bookmarks in the following way:</p>
            <example caption='Privileged Component Request Bookmarks'><![CDATA[
<iq from='pubsub.capulet.net' type='get' id='bookmark1'>
    <privilege xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0'
               from='juliet@capulet.lit'
               type='get'>
        <pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
            <items node='storage:bookmarks'/>
        </pubsub>
    </privilege>
</iq>
            ]]></example>
        <p>and server answer:</p>

            <example caption='Server Return Bookmarks'><![CDATA[
<iq id='bookmark1'
    to='pubsub.caputet.net'
    type='result'>
  <pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
    <items node='storage:bookmarks'>
      <item id='current'>
        <storage xmlns='storage:bookmarks'>
          <conference name='The Play&apos;s the Thing' 
                      autojoin='true'
                      jid='theplay@conference.shakespeare.lit'>
            <nick>JC</nick>
          </conference>
        </storage>
      </item>
    </items>
  </pubsub>
</iq>
            ]]></example>
    </section2>
</section1>


<section1 topic='Client Mode Use Cases' anchor='client_usecases'>
    <section2 topic='Permission Request Use Case' anchor='client_perm'>
        <p>In <em>client</em> mode, the component is not certified by the server administrator, so the permissions MUST be <strong>explicitly</strong> allowed by the client. This is initiated by the component (it can be after an interaction with a client, like a subscription). It's done in a the same way as for <em>admin</em> mode with the following exceptions:</p>
        <ol>
            <li>the privilege type is <em>client</em> instead of <em>admin</em></li>
            <li>the privilege is done per entity, so the entity MUST be specified in a 'to' attribute</li>
            <li>permission are explicitly asked for every needed namespace</li>
        </ol>
        <p>Namespace permission are asked with a &lt;perm/&gt; element, which MUST contain a 'xmlns' attribute and a 'type' attribute which can be:</p>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>get</strong> — the component wants to send &IQ; stanza of type <em>'get'</em></li>
            <li><strong>set</strong> — the component wants to send &IQ; stanza of type <em>'set'</em></li>
            <li><strong>both</strong> — the component wants to send &IQ; stanza of type <em>'get'</em> and <em>'set'</em></li>
        </ul>
        <p>If a component want a read/write access to a client's roster (juliet) and a read only access to her pubsub, it can ask the permission like this:
        </p>
            <example caption='Component Asks For User Privilege'><![CDATA[
<iq from='priv.montaigu.net' to='capulet.net' type='get' id='privilege1'>
    <query xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0'
           type='request'
           privilege='client'
           to='juliet@capulet.net'>
        <perm xmlns='jabber:iq:roster' type='both'/>
        <perm xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub' type='get'/>
    </query>
</iq>
]]></example>
<p>Once received the permission request, the server ask to the client if it grant access to the requested permission using &xep0004;. The form SHOULD allow to fine tune the granted permissions. The server use a challenge which it MUST have generated himself.
</p>
    <example caption='Server Asks User For The Permission'><![CDATA[
<message from='capulet.net' to='juliet@capulet.net'>
    <body>
        priv.montaigu.net wants some privileges.
        Do you you allow him to use the following features ?

        Be careful ! According permissions to component is a serious thing,
        think twice that you can trust the component before doing this.
    </body>
    <x xmlns='jabber:x:data' type='form'>
        <title>Privileges request</title>
        <instructions>priv.montaigu.net wants to use the following features:
            Do you allow it?</instructions>
        <field type='hidden' var='challenge'><value>5439123</value></field>
        <field type='hidden' var='FORM_TYPE'>
            <value>urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0</value>
        </field>
        <field type='list-single'
            label='Manage roster (jabber:iq:roster) READ/WRITE'
            var='jabber:iq:roster'>
            <value>0</value>
            <option label='No'><value>0</value></option>
            <option label='Read only (get)'><value>get</value></option>
            <option label='Write only (set)'><value>set</value></option>
            <option label='Read and write (both)'><value>both</value></option>
        </field>
        <field type='list-single'
            label='Manage PubSub (http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub) READ'
            var='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
            <value>0</value>
            <option label='None'><value>none</value></option>
            <option label='Read only (get)'><value>get</value></option>
        </field>
    </x>
</message>
]]></example>
<p>The server SHOULD include a warning message, SHOULD translate the namespace to human friendly names (and MAY keep the original namespace in addition) and MUST set the default value to '<strong>none</strong>' (permission refused).</p>
<p>The client can then answer to the form:</p>
    <example caption='Client Answer To The Form'><![CDATA[
<message from='juliet@capulet.net' to='capulet.net'>
  <x xmlns='jabber:x:data' type='submit'>
    <field var='FORM_TYPE'>
      <value></value>
    </field>
    <field var='challenge'><value>5439123</value></field>
    <field var='jabber:iq:roster'><value>both</value></field>
    <field var='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'><value>none</value></field>
  </x>
</message>
]]></example>
<p>Here juliet accept that <em>priv.montaigu.net</em> use 'set' and 'get' to manage her roster, but doesn't want it to do any 'get' on her pubsub nodes.</p>
<p>Finaly, the server notify the component of the permission granted. For this it use a &QUERY; element with the 'allowed' type, and put the client jid in a 'from' attribute:</p>
            <example caption='Server notify accepted permissions'><![CDATA[
<iq from='capulet.net' to='priv.montaigu.net' type='set' id='privilege2'>
    <query xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0'
        type='allowed'
        from='juliet@capulet.net'>
        <perm xmlns='jabber:iq:roster' type='both'/>
        <perm xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub' type='none'/>
    </query>
</iq>
]]></example>
<p>The privileged component can now act according to permission granted to him.</p>
</section2>
<section2 topic='Privileged Component Send IQ Stanzas' anchor='priv_iq_client'>
    <p>sending IQ stanza is done in the exact same way as for <link url='#priv_iq_admin'>admin mode</link>. If a component want to sent a non authorized IQ, it get a &forbidden; error:</p>
            <example caption='Component Request bookmarks'><![CDATA[
<iq from='priv.montaigu.net' to='capulet.net' type='get' id='bookmark1'>
    <privilege xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0'
               from='juliet@capulet.lit'
               type='get'>
        <pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
            <items node='storage:bookmarks'/>
        </pubsub>
    </privilege>
</iq>
]]></example>

            <example caption='The Stanza Is Not Autorized !'><![CDATA[
<iq from='capulet.net' to='priv.montaigu.net' type='error' id='bookmark1'>
    <error type='cancel'>
        <forbidden xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/>
    </error>
</iq>
            ]]></example>
</section2>

</section1>
<section1 topic='Discovering Support' anchor='disco'>
  <p>If a server or a component supports the component privilege protocol, it MUST report that fact by including a service discovery feature of "urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0" in response to a &xep0030; information request:</p>
  <example caption="Service Discovery information request"><![CDATA[
<iq from='pubsub.capulet.net'
    id='disco1'
    to='capulet.net'
    type='get'>
  <query xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info'/>
</iq>
  ]]></example>
  <example caption="Service Discovery information response"><![CDATA[
<iq from='capulet.net'
    id='disco1'
    to='pubsub.capulet.net'
    type='result'>
  <query xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info'>
    ...
    <feature var='urn:xmpp:tmp:privilege:0'/>
    ...
  </query>
</iq>
  ]]></example>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Business Rules' anchor='rules'>
    <ol>
        <li>Server MAY keep permission granted to an component by a client from one session to an other, but if it do so, it MUST provide a way to client to check already granted permission, and revoke them (possibly using &xep0050;).</li>
        <li>If a client can't check or revoke permission (e.g. it doesn't support <strong>XEP-0050</strong>), the server MUST NOT keep granted permission from one session to an other, and permission will be asked on each new session.</li>
    </ol>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Implementation Notes' anchor='impl'>
    <p>As admin mode is far more easy to implement than client mode, a server MAY choose to only implement the former</p>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Security Considerations' anchor='security'>
    <ol>
        <li>Privileged component nearly have the same possibility as the server itself, <em>admin</em> permission should be granted carefuly, only if you absolutely trust the component.</li>
        <li>A server MAY choose to filter allowed namespaces, to avoid giving dangerous permissions. In this case, it MUST always set the allowed type of filtered namespaces to <strong>none</strong></li>

        <li>In case of filtering, a whitelist system is more secure and SHOULD be prefered to a blacklist (idealy, configuration would allow no filtering, whitelist filtering and blacklist filtering)</li>
    </ol>
</section1>
<section1 topic='IANA Considerations' anchor='iana'>
  <p>REQUIRED. TODO</p>
</section1>
<section1 topic='XMPP Registrar Considerations' anchor='registrar'>
  <p>REQUIRED. TODO</p>
</section1>
<section1 topic='XML Schema' anchor='schema'>
  <p>REQUIRED for protocol specifications. TODO</p>
</section1>
</xep>