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XEP-0455: initial update after acceptance
- Address the issue of the tmp namespace - Fixup abstract - Restructure to use subsections - Clarify usage of future date times - Clarify the pubsub node a bit further - Add some business rules & security considerationsmaster
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Jonas Schäfer
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<xep>
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<header>
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<title>Service Outage Status</title>
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<abstract>This document defines an XMPP protocol extension that enables a server to communicate issues with the server to all users in a semantic manner.</abstract>
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<abstract>This document defines an XMPP protocol extension that enables server administrators
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to communicate issues with the server to all users in a semantic manner.</abstract>
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&LEGALNOTICE;
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<number>0455</number>
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<status>Experimental</status>
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<email>mathieui@mathieui.net</email>
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<jid>mathieui@mathieui.net</jid>
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</author>
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<revision>
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<version>0.2.0</version>
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<date>2021-02-09</date>
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<initials></initials>
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<remark>Evolve the standard: Editorial restructuring, add business rules and security considerations and clarify some wording.</remark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<version>0.1.0</version>
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<date>2021-02-09</date>
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<li>A way to reference and archive such incidents, in a &xep0060; node</li>
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</ul>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='External endpoint discovery' anchor='external-disco'>
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<p>To make such discovery possible, we specify a &xep0128; mechanism that a server SHOULD return in response to service discovery information ("disco#info") requests sent to the bare domain of the server. This information MUST be scoped using a FORM_TYPE of "urn:xmpp:tmp:sos" (as already specified in <cite>XEP-0128</cite>) and data form fields registered for this purpose as defined in the <link url='#registrar'>XMPP Registrar Considerations</link> section of this document.</p>
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<section1 topic='External status' anchor='external-status'>
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<section2 topic='Discovery' anchor='external-disco'>
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<p>To make such discovery possible, we specify a &xep0128; mechanism that a server SHOULD return in response to service discovery information ("disco#info") requests sent to the bare domain of the server. This information MUST be scoped using a FORM_TYPE of "urn:xmpp:sos:0" (as already specified in <cite>XEP-0128</cite>) and data form fields registered for this purpose as defined in the <link url='#registrar'>XMPP Registrar Considerations</link> section of this document.</p>
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<p>Values of 'external-status-addresses' form field MUST be valid URIs, i.e. comply with the 'xs:anyURI' datatype of &w3xmlschema2;.</p>
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<example caption='Entity queries server for information'><![CDATA[
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<p>Values of 'external-status-addresses' form field MUST be valid URIs, i.e. comply with the 'xs:anyURI' datatype of &w3xmlschema2;.</p>
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<example caption='Entity queries server for information'><![CDATA[
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<iq from='thirdwitch@shakespeare.lit/chamber'
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to='shakespeare.lit'
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id='disco1'
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</iq>
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]]></example>
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<example caption='Server communicates information'><![CDATA[
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<example caption='Server communicates information'><![CDATA[
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<iq from='shakespeare.lit'
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to='thirdwitch@shakespeare.list/chamber'
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id='disco1'
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<feature var='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco'/>
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<x xmlns='jabber:x:data' type='result'>
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<field var='FORM_TYPE' type='hidden'>
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<value>urn:xmpp:tmp:sos</value>
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<value>urn:xmpp:sos:0</value>
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</field>
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<field var='external-status-addresses'>
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<value>http://secondary.shakespeare.lit/status.json</value>
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</iq>
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]]></example>
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<p>Links present inside the 'external-status-addresses' field SHOULD use HTTP/HTTPS protocol and the resources referenced MUST be available without authentication.</p>
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<p>Links present inside the 'external-status-addresses' field SHOULD use HTTP/HTTPS protocol and the resources referenced MUST be available without authentication.</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='External status format' anchor='json-schema'>
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<p>TODO: do we want this to be XML or json? I have no real preference, in any case it should be preferably generated by a tool but easy to write by hand, as this needs to be usable in situations where time is the essence.</p>
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<p>The format used for the external status is defined here, to allow a wide range
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of compatibility across services and clients.</p>
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<p>A client MUST ignore unknown extra fields present in the JSON file, to allow extensibility, and implementations MAY add other fields.</p>
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<example caption='Example status'><![CDATA[
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</section2>
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<section2 topic='External status format' anchor='json-schema'>
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<p>TODO: do we want this to be XML or json? I have no real preference, in any case it should be preferably generated by a tool but easy to write by hand, as this needs to be usable in situations where time is the essence.</p>
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<p>The format used for the external status is defined here, to allow a wide range
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of compatibility across services and clients.</p>
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<p>A client MUST ignore unknown extra fields present in the JSON file, to allow extensibility, and implementations MAY add other fields.</p>
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<example caption='Example status'><![CDATA[
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{
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"outage": "complete",
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"planned": true,
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"en": "The serveur is being updated"
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}
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}
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]]></example>
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<p>The "message" field MUST contain at least a message on the "default" key, that will be
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used by the client if the current user language is not found. It is left to the
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operator to determine which language is more relevant as a default, according to the
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server’s user base.</p>
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<p>When the outage is over, the file SHOULD be replaced with an empty JSON object.</p>
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<example caption='Empty file after resolution of the issue'><![CDATA[
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{}
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]]></example>
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<p>The "message" field MUST contain at least a message on the "default" key, that will be
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used by the client if the current user language is not found. It is left to the
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operator to determine which language is more relevant as a default, according to the
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server’s user base.</p>
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<p>The following JSON schema is provided as a means to describe and validate the
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file exposed by the external service:</p>
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<p>The following JSON schema is provided as a means to describe and validate the
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file exposed by the external service:</p>
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<code><![CDATA[
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<code><![CDATA[
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{
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"$id": "http://xmpp.org/server-outage-schema.json",
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"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
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}
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}
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]]></code>
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</section2>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic="Pubsub Node" anchor="pubsubnode">
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<section1 topic="In-band status" anchor="in-band-status">
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<section2 topic='PubSub Node' anchor='pubsubnode'>
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<p>For in-band notifications of server issues, a service with this extension SHOULD expose a 'urn:xmpp:sos:0'
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pubsub node with the acess model defined in &xep0222; on its bare JID.
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This pubsub node contains items describing outages and outage resolutions, and each item MUST have an 'id' attribute value containing
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the outage date and time, in &xep0082; format.</p>
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<p>Clients implementing this extension SHOULD subscribe to the '+notify' on that node, as defined in &xep0060;.</p>
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<p>Entities from other servers MAY be allowed to subscribe to other server nodes, to allow external services
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to monitor the server. Doing so allows aggregation of XMPP outage events across the network, for a better
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transparency.</p>
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</section2>
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<section2 topic='Outage event' anchor='outage-event'>
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<p>For in-band notifications of server issues, a service MUST expose a pubsub node with the acess model defined in &xep0222;.
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This pubsub node contains items describing outages, and each item MUST have an 'id' attribute value containing
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the publishing time, in &xep0082; format.</p>
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<p>Clients implementing this extension SHOULD subscribe to the '+notify' on that node, as defined in &xep0060;.</p>
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<p>Entities from other servers MAY be allowed to subscribe to other server nodes, to allow an external service
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to monitor the server. Doing so allows aggregation of XMPP outage events across the network, for a better
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transparency.</p>
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<example caption='Server operator publishes an outage event'><![CDATA[
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<example caption='Server operator publishes an outage event'><![CDATA[
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<iq from='firstwitch@shakespeare.lit/broom' to='shakespeare.lit' type='set' id='pub1'>
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<pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
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<publish node='urn:xmpp:tmp:sos'>
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<publish node='urn:xmpp:sos:0'>
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<item id="2021-01-01T01:01:01Z">
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<outage xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:sos'>
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<outage xmlns='urn:xmpp:sos:0'>
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<description xml:lang='en'>The ICQ and MSN gateways are down</description>
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<description xml:lang='fr'>Les passerelles ICQ et MSN sont mortes</description>
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<planned>false</planned>
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</iq>
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]]></example>
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<example caption='Client subscribed receives an outage event'><![CDATA[
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<example caption='Client subscribed receives an outage event'><![CDATA[
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<message from='shakespeare.lit'
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to='macbeth@shakespeare.lit/throne'
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type='headline'
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id='outagefoo'>
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<event xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#event'>
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<items node='urn:xmpp:tmp:sos'>
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<items node='urn:xmpp:sos:0'>
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<item id="2021-01-01T01:01:01Z">
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<outage xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:sos'>
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<outage xmlns='urn:xmpp:sos:0'>
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<description xml:lang='en'>The ICQ and MSN gateways are down</description>
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<description xml:lang='fr'>Les passerelles ICQ et MSN sont mortes</description>
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<planned>false</planned>
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</message>
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]]></example>
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</section2>
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<section2 topic='Outage End Event' anchor='outage-end-event'>
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<p>When the outage is over, servers operators SHOULD publish an <outage-end/> element
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with the item id matching the time at which the issue was resolved. It can optionally
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contain a description.</p>
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<example caption='Server operator publishes an end of outage event'><![CDATA[
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<iq from='firstwitch@shakespeare.lit/broom' to='shakespeare.lit' type='set' id='pub2'>
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<pubsub xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub'>
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<publish node='urn:xmpp:tmp:sos'>
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<publish node='urn:xmpp:sos:0'>
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<item id="2021-01-01T02:05:01Z">
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<outage-end xmlns='urn:xmpp:tmp:sos'>
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<outage-end xmlns='urn:xmpp:sos:0'>
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<description xml:lang="en">Everything has been fixed!</description>
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<description xml:lang="fr">Tout a été corrigé !</description>
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</outage-end>
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<p>Clients receiving this notification SHOULD remove the information about the outage from the user’s view, and MAY
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display the new message briefly.</p>
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</section2>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Use Cases' anchor='usecases'>
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<p>This extension has been thought for several different cases of service outages:</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Business Rules' anchor='rules'>
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<p>A client implementing this extension MUST fetch the addresses of the external service and cache it
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for a reasonable amount of time (several days), to be able to use it when an issue occurs</p>
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for later use. Doing so allows the client to use this information when it is impossible to connect
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to the server.</p>
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<p>A client receiving an outage event for a time in the future SHOULD treat it as a planned event
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that is not already happening and adapt its display consequently.</p>
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<p>When connected, a client SHOULD NOT fetch the external file as the in-band notification provides
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the same information, if available.</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Internationalization Considerations' anchor='i18n'>
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<p>Both the JSON and the XML format defined in this document allow for internationalization in the fields that are expected to be presented to the user as-is. The other fields are machine-readable and their various values SHOULD be translated in the implementing applications.</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Security Considerations' anchor='security'>
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<p>Client implementations MUST check the provenance of the pubsub notifications before displaying a notification, otherwise malicious entities could send fake outage events.</p>
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<p>Server administrators MUST ensure the servers provided in 'external-status-addresses' are trusted, as malicious administrators of this server could use the referenced file
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to display arbitrary messages to users.</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='IANA Considerations' anchor='iana'>
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<p>This document requires no interaction with &IANA;.</p>
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<section1 topic='XMPP Registrar Considerations' anchor='registrar'>
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<p>The ®ISTRAR; includes the following information in its registries.</p>
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<section2 topic='Field Standardization' anchor='registrar-formtype'>
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<p>&xep0068; defines a process for standardizing the fields used within Data Forms qualified by a particular namespace, and <cite>XEP-0128</cite> describes how to use field standardization in the context of service discovery. This section registers fields for server information scoped by the "urn:xmpp:tmp:sos" FORM_TYPE.</p>
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<p>&xep0068; defines a process for standardizing the fields used within Data Forms qualified by a particular namespace, and <cite>XEP-0128</cite> describes how to use field standardization in the context of service discovery. This section registers fields for server information scoped by the "urn:xmpp:sos:0" FORM_TYPE.</p>
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<code caption='Registry Submission'><![CDATA[
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<form_type>
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<name>urn:xmpp:tmp:sos</name>
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<name>urn:xmpp:sos:0</name>
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<doc>XEP-XXXXX</doc>
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<desc>
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Form enabling a the registration of a machine-readable
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