Network Working Group C. Daboo
Internet-Draft Apple Inc.
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CardDAV Directory Gateway Extension
draft-daboo-carddav-directory-gateway-01
Abstract
This document defines and extension to the vCard Extensions to WebDAV
(CardDAV) protocol that allows a server to expose a directory as a
read-only address book collection.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. CARDDAV:directory-gateway Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Client Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Server Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. IANA Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Appendix A. Change History (to be removed prior to
publication as an RFC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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1. Introduction and Overview
The CardDAV [I-D.ietf-vcarddav-carddav] protocol defines a standard
way of accessing, managing, and sharing contact information based on
the vCard [RFC2426] format. Often, in an enterprise or service
provider environment, a directory of all users hosted on the server
(or elsewhere) is available (for example via Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) [RFC4510] or some direct database access). It
would be convenient for CardDAV clients if this directory were
exposed as a "global" address book on the CardDAV server so it could
be searched just as personal address books are. This specification
defines a "directory gateway" feature extension to CardDAV to enable
this.
This specification adds one new WebDAV property to principal
resources that contains the URL to the directory gateway address book
collection resource. It is important for clients to be able to
distinguish this address book collection from others because there
are specific limitations involved in using it as described below.
Note that this feature is in no way intended to replace full
directory access - it is meant to simply provide a convenient way for
CardDAV clients to query contact-related attributes in directory
records.
2. Conventions
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
The term "protected" is used in the Conformance field of property
definitions as defined in Section 15 of [RFC4918].
This document uses XML DTD fragments ([W3C.REC-xml-20081126], Section
3.2) as a purely notational convention. WebDAV request and response
bodies cannot be validated by a DTD due to the specific extensibility
rules defined in Section 17 of [RFC4918] and due to the fact that all
XML elements defined by this specification use the XML namespace name
"DAV:". In particular:
1. element names use the "DAV:" namespace,
2. element ordering is irrelevant unless explicitly stated,
3. extension elements (elements not already defined as valid child
elements) may be added anywhere, except when explicitly stated
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otherwise,
4. extension attributes (attributes not already defined as valid for
this element) may be added anywhere, except when explicitly
stated otherwise.
When XML element types in the namespaces "DAV:" and
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:carddav" are referenced in this document
outside of the context of an XML fragment, the strings "DAV:" and
"CARDDAV:" will be prefixed to the element types, respectively.
3. CARDDAV:directory-gateway Property
Name: directory-gateway
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:carddav
Purpose: Identifies the URL of a CardDAV address book collection
acting as the directory gateway for the server.
Protected: MUST be protected.
allprop behavior: SHOULD NOT be returned by a PROPFIND DAV:allprop
request.
Description: The CARDDAV:directory-gateway identifies an address
book collection resource that is the directory gateway address
book for the server.
Definition:
Example:
/directory
4. Client Guidelines
Clients wishing to make use of the directory gateway address book can
request the CARDDAV:directory-gateway property when examining other
properties on the principal resource for the user. If the property
is not present, then the directory gateway feature is not supported
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by the server at that time.
Since the directory being exposed via the directory gateway address
book collection could be large, clients SHOULD use the feature to
limit the number of results returned in an CARDDAV:addressbook-query
REPORT as defined in Section 8.6.1 of [I-D.ietf-vcarddav-carddav].
Clients MUST treat the directory gateway address book collection as a
read-only collection, so HTTP methods that modify resource data or
properties in the address book collection MUST NOT be used.
Clients SHOULD NOT attempt to cache the entire contents of the
directory gateway address book collection resource by retrieving all
resources. Instead, CARDDAV:addressbook-query REPORTs are used to
search for specific address book object resources.
5. Server Guidelines
Servers wishing to expose a directory gateway as an address book
collection MUST include the CARDDAV:directory-gateway property on all
principal resources of users expected to use the feature.
Since the directory being exposed via the directory gateway address
book collection could be large, servers SHOULD use the feature to
truncate the number of results returned in an CARDDAV:addressbook-
query REPORT as defined in Section 8.6.2 of
[I-D.ietf-vcarddav-carddav]. In addition, servers SHOULD disallow
requests that effectively enumerate the collection contents (e.g.,
PROPFIND Depth:1, trivial CARDDAV:addressbook-query, DAV:sync-
collection REPORT).
Servers need to expose the directory information as a set of address
book object resources in the directory gateway address book
collection resource. To do that, a mapping between the directory
record format and the vCard data has to be applied. In general, only
directory record attributes that have a direct equivalent in vCard
SHOULD be mapped. It is up to individual implementations to
determine which attributes to map. But in all cases servers MUST
generate valid vCard data as returned to the client. In addition, as
required by CardDAV, the UID vCard property MUST be present in the
vCard data, and this value MUST be persistent from query to query for
the same directory record.
Multiple directory sources could be available to the server. If the
server wished to expose data from all of these, it MUST use the
single directory gateway resource to do so, aggregating results from
each directory source. When doing so care is needed when dealing
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with potential records that refer to the same entity. Servers MAY
suppress any duplicates that they are able to determine themselves.
Records in a directory can include data for more than just people,
e.g, resources such as rooms or projectors, groups, computer systems
etc. It is up to individual implementations to determine the most
appropriate "scope" for the data returned via the directory gateway
by filtering the appropriate record types.
Servers MAY apply implementation defined access rules to determine,
on a per-user basis, what records are returned to a particularly user
and the content of those records exposed via vCard data. This per-
user behavior is in addition to the general security requirements
detailed below.
6. Security Considerations
Servers MUST ensure that client requests against the directory
gateway address book collection cannot use excessive resources (CPU,
memory, network bandwidth etc), given that the directory could be
large.
Servers MUST take care not to expose sensitive directory record
attributes in the vCard data via the directory gateway address book.
In general only those properties that have direct correspondence in
vCard SHOULD be exposed.
Servers need to determine whether it is appropriate for the directory
information to be available via CardDAV to unauthenticated users. If
not, servers MUST ensure that unauthenticated users do not have
access to the directory gateway address book object resource and its
contents. If unauthenticated access is allowed, servers MAY choose
to limit the set of vCard properties that are searchable or returned
in the address book object resources when unauthenticated requests
are made.
7. IANA Consideration
This document does not require any actions on the part of IANA.
8. Acknowledgments
9. References
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9.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-vcarddav-carddav]
Daboo, C., "vCard Extensions to WebDAV (CardDAV)",
draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav-10 (work in progress),
November 2009.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2426] Dawson, F. and T. Howes, "vCard MIME Directory Profile",
RFC 2426, September 1998.
[RFC4918] Dusseault, L., "HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed
Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 4918, June 2007.
[W3C.REC-xml-20081126]
Paoli, J., Yergeau, F., Bray, T., Sperberg-McQueen, C.,
and E. Maler, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth
Edition)", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-
xml-20081126, November 2008,
.
9.2. Informative References
[RFC4510] Zeilenga, K., "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP): Technical Specification Road Map", RFC 4510,
June 2006.
Appendix A. Change History (to be removed prior to publication as an
RFC)
Changes in -01
1. Remove duplicated text in a couple of sections
2. Add example of LDAP/generic database as possible directory
"sources"
3. Add text to explain why the client needs to treat this as special
and thus the need for a property
4. Added text to server guidelines indicating requirements for
handling vCard UID properties
5. Added text to server guidelines explain that different record
"types" may exist in the directory and the server is free to
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filter those as appropriate
6. Added text to server guidelines indicating that server are free
to aggregate directory records from multiple sources
7. Added text to server guidelines indicating that servers are free
to apply implementation defined access control to the returned
data on a per-user basis
Author's Address
Cyrus Daboo
Apple Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
USA
Email: cyrus@daboo.name
URI: http://www.apple.com/
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