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<!DOCTYPE xep SYSTEM 'xep.dtd' [
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<xep>
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<header>
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<title>Burner JIDs</title>
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<abstract>
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A mechanism by which users may request anonymous, ephemeral "burner" JIDs.
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</abstract>
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&LEGALNOTICE;
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<number>0383</number>
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<status>Deferred</status>
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<type>Standards Track</type>
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<sig>Standards</sig>
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<approver>Council</approver>
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<dependencies>
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<spec>XMPP Core</spec>
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<spec>RFC 4422</spec>
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</dependencies>
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<supersedes/>
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<supersededby/>
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<shortname>burner</shortname>
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&sam;
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<revision>
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<version>0.1.1</version>
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<date>2017-01-28</date>
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<initials>ssw</initials>
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<remark><p>Improve security considerations.</p></remark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<version>0.1</version>
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<date>2016-12-07</date>
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<initials>XEP Editor: ssw</initials>
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<remark><p>Initial version approved by the council.</p></remark>
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</revision>
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</header>
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<section1 topic='Introduction' anchor='intro'>
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<p>
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In many XMPP applications it is desirable to be able to act anonymously to
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prevent leaking personally identifiable information (PII) to a third party.
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Traditionally this is accomplished using SASL authentication and the
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ANONYMOUS mechanism as detailed in &xep0175;, however, the ANONYMOUS
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mechanism is in reality an authorization mechanism and does not provide
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authentication of users.
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</p>
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<p>
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This specification solves these problems by decoupling anonymous identity
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management from authentication (auth) and authorization (authz).
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This allows logged in users (authenticated or anonymous at the server
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operators disgression) to request a new temporary identifier, a "burner"
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JID, which may be used by its owner to construct a new session with the
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server that is authorized to communicate anonymously with third parties and
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is (optionally) locally authenticated.
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</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Glossary' anchor='glossary'>
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<dl>
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<di>
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<dt>Burner JID</dt>
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<dd>
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A temporary JID that is not valid for the purpose of authentication but
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which may be authorized by an existing pre-authenticated session.
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</dd>
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</di>
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<di>
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<dt>Ephemeral identity</dt>
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<dd>
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The identity of a user on the server comprising a burner JID and any
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other associated data.
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</dd>
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</di>
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<di>
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<dt>Authentication identity</dt>
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<dd>
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The users normal identity and JID which they use to authenticate with
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the server and create new XMPP sessions.
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</dd>
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</di>
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</dl>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Use Cases' anchor='usecases'>
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<ul>
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<li>
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As a user concerned about spam I want to join a public chat room
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anonymously to prevent JID harvesting.
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</li>
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<li>
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As the author of a social website I want to allow users to create
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ephemeral identities which can be used to contact them even if they have
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not granted access to their personal information.
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</li>
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<li>
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As a server operator I want to allow users to act anonymously, but also
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want a way to rate limit the creation of ephemeral identities associated
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with a given authentication identity.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Business Rules' anchor='rules'>
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<p>
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The user requests an ephemeral identity from the server or another XMPP
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service by sending an IQ containing an "identity" payload qualified by the
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urn:xmpp:burner:0 namespace.
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</p>
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<example caption='User requests ephemeral identity'><![CDATA[
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<iq from='caiusmarcius@example.net/corioli'
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id='h7ns81g'
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to='example.net'
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type='get'>
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<identity xmlns='urn:xmpp:burner:0'/>
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</iq>]]></example>
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<p>
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If the service wishes to issue an ephemeral identity to the user it replies
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with a new burner JID:
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</p>
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<example caption='Server issues burner JID'><![CDATA[
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<iq from='example.net'
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id='h7ns81g'
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to='caiusmarcius@example.net/corioli'
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type='result'>
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<identity xmlns='urn:xmpp:burner:0'>
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<jid>
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hfgnINTSA-ciCLz6NhTtCD5Jr0k:1477672278884j@example.net
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</jid>
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</identity>
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</iq>]]></example>
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<p>
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The burner JID MUST be a bare JID.
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Burner JIDs are not valid for the purpose of authentication, but may be
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authorized to perform actions.
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To use the burner JID the client then attempts to establish a new session
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with the server using the account that requested the burner JID as the
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authentication identity and the burner JID as the authorization identity as
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defined in &rfc4422; §2. If the server does not support SASL, or does
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not support any SASL mechanisms that support authorization identities,
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burner JIDs cannot be used.
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</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Determining Support' anchor='support'>
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<p>
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Services that support issuing burner JIDs MUST advertise the fact in
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responses to &xep0030; "disco#info" requests by returning an identity of
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"authz/ephemeral":
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</p>
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<example caption='Service responds to disco#info query'><![CDATA[
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<iq type='result'
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from='muc.example.net'
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to='caiusmarcius@example.net/corioli'
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id='k3hs5174'>
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<query xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info'>
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<identity type='im' name='MyServer' category='server'/>
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<identity type='pep' name='MyServer' category='pubsub'/>
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<identity type='ephemeral' category='authz'/>
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…
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<feature var='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info'/>
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<feature var='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#items'/>
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<feature var='http://jabber.org/protocol/muc'/>
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…]]></example>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Implementation Notes' anchor='impl'>
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<p>
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It may be impractical to store verification information for every burner JID
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issued by the system.
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To this end servers that implement this specification MAY choose to encode
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information into the localpart of issued burner JIDs which can be verified
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when a user attempts to authorize a new session to use the burner JID.
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If an implementation chooses to do this it is RECOMMENDED that an
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&nistfips198-1; be used.
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This HMAC MAY include the JID of the associated authentication identity, an
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expiration or issued time for the burner JID, session information, TLS
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channel binding data, or any other information the server wishes to verify.
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The format of this key or its input values is left as an implementation
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decision.
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</p>
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<p>
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As with persistent JIDs, the client MUST NOT assign any meaning to the
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localpart or resourcepart of a burner JID.
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</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Security Considerations' anchor='security'>
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<p>
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To prevent burner JIDs from being abused for spamming, implementations MAY
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rate limit all burner JIDs in use by an authn identity as a single unit.
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However, be advised that this may provide a third party that can monitor
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traffic patterns with the ability to determine what burner JIDs belong to
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the same user.
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To prevent a burner JIDs authn identity from being discovered the same way,
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burner JIDs SHOULD NOT share a rate limit with their authn identity.
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</p>
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<p>
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If TLS channel binding information is encoded in the local part of the
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burner JID it is RECOMMENDED that the tls-unique channel binding value be
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used as defined by &rfc5929; §3.
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Note that unless the master-secret fix from &rfc7627; has been implemented
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channel binding information does not include enough context to successfully
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verify the binding when resuming a TLS session.
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</p>
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<p>
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Implementations that choose to encode information in the localpart of burner
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JIDs should take care when choosing a hash function.
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For current recommendations see &xep0300;.
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</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='IANA Considerations' anchor='iana'>
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<p>This docment requires no interaction with the &IANA;.</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='XMPP Registrar Considerations' anchor='registrar'>
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<section2 topic='Service Discovery Category/Type' anchor='registrar-disco'>
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<p>
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Upon advancement of this proposal from experimental to draft status the
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®ISTRAR; will include a category of "authz" in its registry at
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&DISCOCATEGORIES;.
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The registrar will also add a value of "ephemeral" to that category.
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The registry submission is as follows:
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</p>
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<code><![CDATA[
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<category>
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<name>authz</name>
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<desc>Services and nodes that provide authorization identities.</desc>
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<type>
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<name>ephemeral</name>
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<desc>
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An authorization service that provides ephemeral identities.
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</desc>
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<doc>XEP-0383</doc>
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</type>
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</category>
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]]></code>
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<p>
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Future submissions to the XMPP Registrar may register additional types.
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</p>
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</section2>
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<section2 topic='Protocol Namespaces' anchor='registrar-ns'>
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<p>This specification defines the following XML namespaces:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>urn:xmpp:burner:0</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Upon advancement of this proposal from experimental to draft status the
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registrar will include the foregoing namespaces in its registry at
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&NAMESPACES; as governed by &xep0053;.
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</p>
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<p></p>
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</section2>
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<section2 topic='Namespace Versioning' anchor='registrar-versioning'>
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&NSVER;
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</section2>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='XML Schema' anchor='schema'>
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<p>TODO.</p>
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</section1>
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<section1 topic='Acknowledgements' anchor='ack'>
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<p>The author wishes to thank Philipp Hancke for his feedback.</p>
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</section1>
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</xep>
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