Internet-Draft VCON for MIMI November 2024
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Virtualized Conversations
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R. Mahy
Rohan Mahy Consulting Services

VCON for MIMI Messages

Abstract

This document describes extensions to the Virtualized Conversation (VCON) syntax for instant messaging systems using the More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) content format.

About This Document

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The latest revision of this draft can be found at https://rohanmahy.github.io/vcon-mimi-messages/draft-mahy-vcon-mimi-messages.html. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mahy-vcon-mimi-messages/.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

VCON [I-D.ietf-vcon-vcon-container] is a format for recording and transmitting conversations. MIMI content [I-D.ietf-mimi-content] is a format for conveying Instant Messages in an interoperable way when end-to-end encrypted. This document describes a way to translate a set of MIMI messages in a conversation or part of a conversation into a VCON.

2. Conventions and Definitions

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

3. Syntax

A MIMI conversation (or portion thereof) is represented in VCON with a mandatory list of parties and dialogs, a new top-level room object, and optionally attachment objects.

3.1. Room information

This document adds a top-level room object. It contains metadata known about the room at the start of the VCON period.

  • id is the MIMI room ID URL. It is mandatory.

  • name is the textual name of the room. It is optional.

3.2. Parties

The parties array MUST contain all the participants who were in the conversation at any point in time during the period represented by the VCON.

This document adds a new party_object_type: imUri. It is mandatory. The name field is optional. The role indicates the MIMI role and is optional. The document also adds a thumbprint party_object_type, which is the JWK thumbprint of the public key of the party. If there are multiple parties (clients) with the same imUri then the thumbprint is required, otherwise it is optional.

3.3. Extensions to the dialog object

The dialog object consists of an array of instant messages of type "text". The start time is set to the hub received timestamp when available. The duration is zero. The parties array consist of the party indexes of those who were active participants when the message was sent. The originator is set to the parties index of the sender of the message.

  • messageId is the base64url encoding of the MIMI content messageId. It is mandatory.

  • replaces is the base64url encoding of the MIMI content messageId of the message this message replaces. It is optional if empty.

  • topicId is the base64url encoding of the MIMI topicId. It is optional if empty.

  • expires is the expiration date/time of the message expressed as a VCON (text) date_type. It is optional if empty.

  • inReplyTo is an array of three values: the base64url encoding of the MIMI content messageId of the message to which this message is replying (or reacting), the hash algorithm expressed as an integer (SHA-256 is 1), and the base64url hash of the decrypted mimi-content. It is optional if empty.

  • lastSeen is an array of base64url-encoded message ids. It is mandatory.

  • mimiExtensions is a object (map) containing MIMI extensions. It is optional.

VCON typically expresses content using the body, encoding, and mimetype fields. In order to preserve this convention we use these fields directly for a MIMI SinglePart structure, but use new MultiPart and ExternalPart structure for those MIMI structures. For a SinglePart these two fields could be present.

  • disposition - optional if set to the default value ("render")

  • language - optional if absent

If there is only a single part its "partIndex" is 0.

3.4. MultiPart

  • partSemantics is one of "chooseOne", "singleUnit", or "processAll". It is mandatory.

  • parts is an array of Parts. It is mandatory.

3.5. Part

  • disposition - optional if set to the default value ("render")

  • language - optional if absent

  • partIndex is an unsigned integer. It is mandatory in a Part object.

  • cardinality is one of "nullpart", "single", "external", or "multi". mandatory.

if cardinality is "single" or "external", then body, encoding, and mimetype fields are included directly in the Part object.

3.6. ExternalPart

  • mimetype (contentType in MIMI). optional but recommended.

  • url is the URL of the content as a text string. mandatory

  • expires is a date_type (text) date. optional.

  • size is an integer number of octets. optional.

  • description is a text string. optional.

  • filename is a text string. optional.

  • cached is a boolean. It is mandatory if it is true, which means that a copy of the external content is available in a vcon attachment object (see {#attachments}).

  • contentHash is the base64url encoded string of the hash of the external content, prefixed with the name of the hash algorithm and a colon (for example "sha256:"). contentHash is optional unless the external content has been included in a vcon attachment object.

ExternalPart has several fields for the decryption of the referenced content. These can be omitted once the content has been downloaded, decrypted, verified, and included in the VCON attachments array. All of them are base64url encoded strings. Otherwise they are mandatory if present in the MIMI content.

3.7. Changes to the room

Changes to the room metadata or participation should be accompanied by a new dialog type:

  • room metadata changes

  • participant identity change

  • participants joining and leaving

  • participants adding new clients

  • moderation events?

TODO add additional fields

3.8. party_event_type events

When there is a change to the parties represented in a room, the party_event_type.event is added.

party_event_type.event /= "add" / "welcome" / "leave" / "remove" / "ban"

  • add: user added herself directly

  • welcome: user added by someone else

  • leave: user leaves of their own accord

  • remove: user is removed by another user

  • ban: user is banned from the group

4. Attachments

An attachment consists of the following fields:

mimetype, filename, encoding, and body are as defined in vcon and are all mandatory.

5. Examples

5.1. MIMI examples as a VCON

The example vcon consists of the example messages from Section 5 of the MIMI content specification plus a single multipart message.

{
  "vcon": "0.0.1",
  "room": {
    "id": "mimi://example.com/r/engineering_team",
    "name": "Engineering Team",
  }
  "parties": [
    {
      "imUri": "mimi://example.com/u/alice-smith",
      "name": "Alice Smith",
      "role": "moderator",
      "thumbprint": "TODOFIXDZXCog_FfQp-xLemZkD5GKB9H7Z-Y41O4jEw"
    },
    {
      "imUri": "mimi://example.com/u/bob-jones",
      "name": "Bob Jones",
      "role": "member",
      "thumbprint": "TODOFIXYUFE7bV9pXAHZHi5bwSWzLJqjncevs9aLKDg"
    },
    {
      "imUri": "mimi://example.com/u/cathy-washington",
      "name": "Cathy Washington",
      "role": "member",
      "thumbprint": "TODOFIXzH3EeOGbI0-oiDGTXlgKmkMzQyQ2W_Y-TB1U"
    }
  ],
  "dialog": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:13:45.019-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 0,
      "messageId": "yjetjodyYNLBto8YDnwLkEc89W09rOuEivbnxKGfHLQ",
      "lastSeen": [],
      "mimetype": "text/markdown;variant=GFM",
      "encoding": "none"
      "body":
        "Hi everyone, we just shipped release 2.0. __Good work__!",
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:13:57.492-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 1,
      "messageId": "Ygye96VUeBhTO6U3D0ZllYsSwSdKB3SiRJgxAb3cdAo",
      "inReplyTo": [
        "yjetjodyYNLBto8YDnwLkEc89W09rOuEivbnxKGfHLQ",
        1,
        "6MaXLsvHITc8xzIQp8BRz_7w_UNQL1n7a6DWysTW5T0"
      ],
      "lastSeen": [
        "yjetjodyYNLBto8YDnwLkEc89W09rOuEivbnxKGfHLQ"
      ],
      "mimetype": "text/markdown;variant=GFM",
      "encoding": "none"
      "body": "Right on! _Congratulations_ \'all!",
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:13:57.728-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 2,
      "messageId": "2YF0k6blW9ZbJ8sgXJgMCTJOlofazdKwVRvf6ZUORFA",
      "inReplyTo": [
        "yjetjodyYNLBto8YDnwLkEc89W09rOuEivbnxKGfHLQ",
        1,
        "6MaXLsvHITc8xzIQp8BRz_7w_UNQL1n7a6DWysTW5T0"
      ],
      "lastSeen": [
        "Ygye96VUeBhTO6U3D0ZllYsSwSdKB3SiRJgxAb3cdAo"
      ],
      "disposition": "reaction",
      "mimetype": "text/plain;charset=utf-8",
      "encoding": "none"
      "body": "❤",
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:14:03.008-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 2,
      "messageId": "rF4iS5BcJ-aFfisoFDCrnTE9pZZBGCxGCoXGJ9VXnck",
      "lastSeen": [
        "2YF0k6blW9ZbJ8sgXJgMCTJOlofazdKwVRvf6ZUORFA"
      ],
      "mimetype": "text/markdown;variant=GFM",
      "encoding": "none"
      "body":
        "Kudos to [@Alice Smith](mimi://example.com/alice-smith) for
making the release happen!",
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:14:08.621-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 1,
      "messageId": "-GqJXuoaJu1Xosu-N8nt6NWzA2RLmIRY0q9jf_kvWkM",
      "replaces": "Ygye96VUeBhTO6U3D0ZllYsSwSdKB3SiRJgxAb3cdAo",
      "inReplyTo": [
        "yjetjodyYNLBto8YDnwLkEc89W09rOuEivbnxKGfHLQ",
        1,
        "6MaXLsvHITc8xzIQp8BRz_7w_UNQL1n7a6DWysTW5T0"
      ],
      "lastSeen": [
        "2YF0k6blW9ZbJ8sgXJgMCTJOlofazdKwVRvf6ZUORFA",
        "rF4iS5BcJ-aFfisoFDCrnTE9pZZBGCxGCoXGJ9VXnck"
      ],
      "mimetype": "text/markdown;variant=GFM",
      "encoding": "none"
      "body": "Right on! _Congratulations_ y'all"
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:14:08.621-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 1,
      "messageId": "8cqo1B9IA6nnB63oPEnmWxIqr7uk7WvQTBgVVlD_Q2c",
      "replaces": "Ygye96VUeBhTO6U3D0ZllYsSwSdKB3SiRJgxAb3cdAo",
      "inReplyTo": [
        "yjetjodyYNLBto8YDnwLkEc89W09rOuEivbnxKGfHLQ",
        1,
        "6MaXLsvHITc8xzIQp8BRz_7w_UNQL1n7a6DWysTW5T0"
      ],
      "lastSeen": [
        "-GqJXuoaJu1Xosu-N8nt6NWzA2RLmIRY0q9jf_kvWkM"
      ]
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:14:10.389-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 2,
      "messageId": "bYZ2NHaryq0WS2pq5IE9fMc4zltUyE6WrKJ7bNB5tMc",
      "replaces": "Ygye96VUeBhTO6U3D0ZllYsSwSdKB3SiRJgxAb3cdAo",
      "inReplyTo": [
        "yjetjodyYNLBto8YDnwLkEc89W09rOuEivbnxKGfHLQ",
        1,
        "6MaXLsvHITc8xzIQp8BRz_7w_UNQL1n7a6DWysTW5T0"
      ],
      "lastSeen": [
        "8cqo1B9IA6nnB63oPEnmWxIqr7uk7WvQTBgVVlD_Q2c"
      ],
      "disposition": "reaction"
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:49:06.227-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 0,
      "messageId": "GkblzkXJxyar0lTgkfcMQ0wo8qpbcU0MqtTg-gM1FiY",
      "expiring": "2022-02-08T22:59:06.227-00:00"
      "lastSeen": [
        "bYZ2NHaryq0WS2pq5IE9fMc4zltUyE6WrKJ7bNB5tMc"
      ],
      "status": "expired"
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:53:41.134-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 1,
      "messageId": "Tdt8UCUl1ugSLRmuObvib_4bvu_Hz3NSwaYuy-TtET4",
      "lastSeen": [
        "GkblzkXJxyar0lTgkfcMQ0wo8qpbcU0MqtTg-gM1FiY"
      ],
      "disposition": "attachment",
      "language": "en",
      "ExternalPart": {
        "mimetype": "video/mp4",
        "url": "https://example.com/storage/8ksB4bSrrRE.mp4",
        "size": 708234961,
        "description": "2 hours of key signing video",
        "filename": "bigfile.mp4",
        "contentHash": "sha256:OczZYpW_L0B1DsMSLJqL2jTRJKoj7fTUJ2jhnX70-00",

        "encAlg": 1,
        "key": "aZISOs306M7n_3csR-J1cw",
        "nonce": "5VM0QcZI3PNmnquV6CUgxg",
        "aad": ""
      }
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:54:09.972-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 2,
      "messageId": "KgDTc29ZP4YyYmXtaYyxpZNrnigjvCjrCYuLTz19zWc",
      "lastSeen": [
        "Tdt8UCUl1ugSLRmuObvib_4bvu_Hz3NSwaYuy-TtET4"
      ],
      "disposition": "session",
      "ExternalPart": {
        "url": "https://example.com/join/12345",
        "description": "Join the Foo 118 conference"
      }
    },

    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:57:14.084-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 0,
      "messageId": "sD19bKRmu4mA9SHznfQOLQQzKnx1Q4mEtSNQhvzqCZw",
      "lastSeen": [
        "KgDTc29ZP4YyYmXtaYyxpZNrnigjvCjrCYuLTz19zWc"
      ],
      "disposition": "render",
      "partIndex": 0,
      "MultiPart": {
        "partSemantics": "chooseOne",
        "parts": [
          "Part": {
            "disposition": "render",
            "language": "en",
            "partIndex": 1,
            "mimetype": "text/markdown;variant=GFM",
            "encoding": "none"
            "body": "Hello!"
          },
          "Part": {
            "disposition": "render",
            "language": "fr",
            "partIndex": 2,
            "mimetype": "text/markdown;variant=GFM",
            "encoding": "none"
            "body": "Bonjour!"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

5.2. MIMI VCON with an Attachment

This example vcon consists of a single message in a dialog which references an attachment.

{
  "vcon": "0.0.1",
  "room": {
    "id": "mimi://example.com/r/engineering_team",
    "name": "Engineering Team",
  }
  "parties": [
    {
      "imUri": "mimi://example.com/u/alice-smith",
      "name": "Alice Smith",
      "role": "moderator",
      "thumbprint": "TODOFIXDZXCog_FfQp-xLemZkD5GKB9H7Z-Y41O4jEw"
    },
    {
      "imUri": "mimi://example.com/u/bob-jones",
      "name": "Bob Jones",
      "role": "member",
      "thumbprint": "TODOFIXYUFE7bV9pXAHZHi5bwSWzLJqjncevs9aLKDg"
    },
    {
      "imUri": "mimi://example.com/u/cathy-washington",
      "name": "Cathy Washington",
      "role": "member",
      "thumbprint": "TODOFIXzH3EeOGbI0-oiDGTXlgKmkMzQyQ2W_Y-TB1U"
    }
  ],
  "dialog": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:53:41.134-00:00",
      "duration": 0,
      "parties": [
        0, 1, 2
      ],
      "originator": 1,
      "messageId": "Tdt8UCUl1ugSLRmuObvib_4bvu_Hz3NSwaYuy-TtET4",
      "lastSeen": [
        "GkblzkXJxyar0lTgkfcMQ0wo8qpbcU0MqtTg-gM1FiY"
      ],
      "disposition": "attachment",
      "language": "en",
      "ExternalPart": {
        "mimetype": "video/mp4",
        "url": "https://example.com/storage/8ksB4bSrrRE.mp4",
        "size": 708234961,
        "description": "2 hours of key signing video",
        "filename": "bigfile.mp4",
        "contentHash": "sha256:OczZYpW_L0B1DsMSLJqL2jTRJKoj7fTUJ2jhnX70-00",
        "cached": true
      }
    },
  ],
  "attachments": [
    {
      "start": "2022-02-08T22:53:41.134-00:00",
      "party": 1,
      "contentHash": "sha256:OczZYpW_L0B1DsMSLJqL2jTRJKoj7fTUJ2jhnX70-00",
      "dialogObjectRef":
  "mid:Tdt8UCUl1ugSLRmuObvib_4bvu_Hz3NSwaYuy-TtET4:0@anonymous.invalid",
      "mimetype": "video/mp4",
      "filename": "bigfile.mp4",
      "encoding": "base64url",
      "body": "Ma0hHSr0f_iUk_RSShTgtY...nSQbZEip5danJYQqsvwWQ"
    }
  ]
}

6. Security Considerations

TODO Security

7. IANA Considerations

This document has no IANA actions.

8. Normative References

[I-D.ietf-mimi-content]
Mahy, R., "More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) message content", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-mimi-content-04, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-mimi-content-04>.
[I-D.ietf-vcon-vcon-container]
Petrie, D. and T. McCarthy-Howe, "The JSON format for vCon - Conversation Data Container", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-vcon-vcon-container-01, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-vcon-vcon-container-01>.
[RFC2119]
Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.
[RFC8174]
Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.

Appendix A. CDDL changes

TODO

Acknowledgments

TODO acknowledge.

Author's Address

Rohan Mahy
Rohan Mahy Consulting Services