

RFC 3857 and RFC 3858 define a subscription event "watcher info".

The XCAP (RFC 4825), carried by HTTP, allows User Agents to communicate their presence rules to a XCAP server, which rules the information exposed by the presence server. RFC 4745 and RFC 5025 define a framework for authorization policies controlling access to application-specific data. If the centralized model is used, the User Agents need a way to define who may subscribe to which amount of their presence information. RFC 3863 and RFC 4479 describe this procedure, RFC 4480 (RPID), RFC 4481, RFC 4482 (CPID) and various drafts describe contents and formats of the presence documents. The presence information is coded in XML documents, that are carried in the bodies of the respective SIP messages. The message PUBLISH (RFC 3903) allows User Agents to inform the presence server about their subscription states.

The latter introduces the concept of a presence server all subscriptions are handled by this server. Two models are defined: an end-to-end model in which each User Agent handles presence subscriptions itself and a centralized model.
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RFC 3856 defines how to make use of SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY for presence. SUBSCRIBE allows users to subscribe to an event on a server, the server responds with NOTIFY whenever the event occurs. RFC 6665 defines the SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY methods. This provides the actual SIP extensions for subscriptions, notifications and publications. The SIMPLE presence specifications can be broken up into: Implementations of the SIMPLE based protocols can be found in SIP Softphones and also in SIP Hardphones.
