<abstract>This specification defines an XMPP protocol extension for message receipts, whereby the sender of a message can request notification that it has been received by the intended recipient.</abstract>
<remark><p>Added two more scenarios; defined business rule about not sending to bare JIDs; specified security consideration regarding presence leaks.</p></remark>
<remark><p>Added text and examples for service discovery; added text and examples for chat session negotiation; added recommendations regarding message processing, retries, etc.</p></remark>
<p>While &xep0079; provides message acknowledgements at the server level, it does not extend that model all the way to the client. However, sometimes client-level acknowledgements are needed, for example to provide "receipts". This document defines a mechanism for XMPP message receipts, which are functionally equivalent to the "delivered" or "displayed" event in &xep0022;, which this specification in part obsoletes. <note>This specification does not distinguish between delivery and presentation, as was done in the message events protocol, in part because no existing clients make the distinction.</note></p>
<p>Note: This extension is functionally equivalent to an <cite>Advanced Message Processing</cite> rule of "receipt" but uses a dedicated namespace to simplify processing by end user clients and intermediate routers.</p>
<p>This document addresses the following requirements:</p>
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<li>Enable a sender to request notification that an XMPP message stanza has been received.</li>
<li>Enable a recipient to provide message receipts if desired.</li>
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<p>Note: This document explicitly does not define a protocol for "guaranteed delivery", since that term (like "security") means different things to different people. Instead, we define a more focused protocol that addresses the need for message receipts, thus solving one problem that falls under the heading of "guaranteed delivery".</p>
<p>In order to make it possible for senders to request and for recipients to generate message receipts, we define a dedicated protocol extension qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:receipts' namespace.</p>
<p>Specifically, the receiving entity shall return a <received/> notice if it has received and processed the message. The term "processed" is understood to include presentation to a human user if appropriate or any other application-specific client-side processing, including generation of an error response if the application determines that the message contents cannot be handled.</p>
<p>The recipient shall generate a receipt if and only if it supports the protocol defined herein and it is configured to return receipts, either globally or for this recipient (otherwise it MUST NOT return a receipt and SHOULD NOT return an error).</p>
<li><p>A sender SHOULD NOT include a request for message receipts when sending a message to the bare JID &LOCALBARE; of the recipient, only when sending to a full JID &LOCALFULL;.</p></li>
<li><p>A sender SHOULD NOT include a request for message receipts unless it knows (via &xep0030; or &xep0115;) that the intended recipient supports the protocol described herein or unless the use of message receipts is negotiated via &xep0155;.</p></li>
<p>Naturally, message receipts can be combined with the rules specified in <cite>Advanced Message Processing</cite> (e.g., the deliver rule) for more complete reporting.</p>
<p>If a sender wishes to request message receipts, it SHOULD first determine whether the intended recipient supports message receipts. This can be done directly via <cite>Service Discovery</cite> or indirectly via <cite>Entity Capabilities</cite>.</p>
<p>If an entity supports message receipts, it MUST report that by including a service discovery feature of "urn:xmpp:receipts" in response to disco#info requests:</p>
<p>Two entities MAY negotiate the use of message receipts for a given session using <cite>Stanza Session Negotiation</cite>. The parameter to be negotiated is named "urn:xmpp:receipts". Its use is illustrated in the following examples.</p>
<p>Although a sender MAY attempt to resend a message if it knows that the recipient supports message receipts and it does not receive a reply within some configurable timeout period, resend logic is out of scope for this specification.</p>
<p>It is possible for a recipient to leak its presence when returning message receipts; therefore, a recipient SHOULD NOT return message receipts to senders who are not otherwise authorized to view its presence.</p>
<p>&xep0068; defines a process for standardizing the fields used within Data Forms qualified by a particular namespace, and the XMPP Registrar maintains a registry of such fields (see &FORMTYPES;). The Registrar shall add the following field for use in Stanza Session Negotiation forms:</p>
