Over the years there have been three different protocols used in the Jabber community to discover information about other entities on the network. The most recent protocol, and the only one that is standards-track, is Service Discovery (XEP-0030) [1]. The protocol prior to Service Discovery was Jabber Browsing (XEP-0011) [2]. Before Jabber Browsing, there was the 'jabber:iq:agents' namespace. This specification provides historical documentation for the Agent Information protocol.
Note well that the Agent Information protocol is deprecated; applications desiring such functionality SHOULD implement Service Discovery. This specification is provided only in order to ensure complete documentation of earlier protocols.
The 'jabber:iq:agents' namespace was used to obtain a list of entities associated with another Jabber Entity; most commonly, the list of trusted services associated with a specific host.
When 'jabber:iq:agents' is used, information about available agents properties is contained within a <query/> element that is scoped by the 'jabber:iq:agents' namespace. The reply to a request of type "get" in the 'jabber:iq:agents' namespace contains zero or more <agent/> elements. The <agent/> element has a required 'jid' attribute that contains the Jabber Identifier of each agent. The <agent/> element in turn may contain the following children:
<iq id='agents1' type='get' to='shakespeare.lit'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:agents'/> </iq>
<iq
to='juliet@capulet.com/balcony'
from='shakespeare.lit'
type='result'
id='agents1'>
<query xmlns='jabber:iq:agents'>
<agent jid='users.shakespeare.lit'>
<name>Jabber User Directory</name>
<service>jud</service>
<search/>
<register/>
</agent>
<agent jid='chat.shakespeare.lit'>
<name>Conferencing Service</name>
<service>public</service>
<groupchat/>
</agent>
</query>
</iq>
There are no security features or concerns related to this proposal.
This document requires no interaction with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) [3].
No action on the part of the XMPP Registrar [4] is necessary as a result of this document, since 'jabber:iq:agents' is already a registered namespace.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<xs:schema
xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'
targetNamespace='jabber:iq:agents'
xmlns='jabber:iq:agents'
elementFormDefault='qualified'>
<xs:element name='query'>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence minOccurs='0'>
<xs:element ref='agent' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name='agent'>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element ref='name' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
<xs:element ref='description' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
<xs:element ref='transport' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
<xs:element ref='groupchat' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
<xs:element ref='service' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
<xs:element ref='register' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
<xs:element ref='search' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name='jid' type='xs:string' use='required'/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name='name' type='xs:string'/>
<xs:element name='description' type='xs:string'/>
<xs:element name='transport'/>
<xs:element name='groupchat'/>
<xs:element name='service' type='xs:string'/>
<xs:element name='register'/>
<xs:element name='search'/>
</xs:schema>
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@report{saint-andre2003iq-agents,
title = {Agent Information},
author = {Saint-Andre, Peter},
type = {XEP},
number = {0094},
version = {0.3},
institution = {XMPP Standards Foundation},
url = {https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0094.html},
date = {2003-05-23/2003-10-08},
}END