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Network Working Group                                          C. Newman
Request for Comments: 2244                                      Innosoft
Category: Standards Track                                    J. G. Myers
                                                                Netscape
                                                           November 1997


           ACAP -- Application Configuration Access Protocol


Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society 1997.  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   The Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) is designed to
   support remote storage and access of program option, configuration
   and preference information.  The data store model is designed to
   allow a client relatively simple access to interesting data, to allow
   new information to be easily added without server re-configuration,
   and to promote the use of both standardized data and custom or
   proprietary data.  Key features include "inheritance" which can be
   used to manage default values for configuration settings and access
   control lists which allow interesting personal information to be
   shared and group information to be restricted.

















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                           Table of Contents



Status of this Memo ...............................................    i
Copyright Notice ..................................................    i
Abstract ..........................................................    i
ACAP Protocol Specification .......................................    1
1.       Introduction .............................................    1
1.1.     Conventions Used in this Document ........................    1
1.2.     ACAP Data Model ..........................................    1
1.3.     ACAP Design Goals ........................................    1
1.4.     Validation ...............................................    2
1.5.     Definitions ..............................................    2
1.6.     ACAP Command Overview ....................................    4
2.       Protocol Framework .......................................    4
2.1.     Link Level ...............................................    4
2.2.     Commands and Responses ...................................    4
2.2.1.   Client Protocol Sender and Server Protocol Receiver ......    4
2.2.2.   Server Protocol Sender and Client Protocol Receiver ......    5
2.3.     Server States ............................................    6
2.3.1.   Non-Authenticated State ..................................    6
2.3.2.   Authenticated State ......................................    6
2.3.3.   Logout State .............................................    6
2.4.     Operational Considerations ...............................    7
2.4.1.   Untagged Status Updates ..................................    7
2.4.2.   Response when No Command in Progress .....................    7
2.4.3.   Auto-logout Timer ........................................    7
2.4.4.   Multiple Commands in Progress ............................    8
2.5.     Server Command Continuation Request ......................    8
2.6.     Data Formats .............................................    8
2.6.1.   Atom .....................................................    9
2.6.2.   Number ...................................................    9
2.6.3.   String ...................................................    9
2.6.3.1. 8-bit and Binary Strings .................................   10
2.6.4.   Parenthesized List .......................................   10
2.6.5.   NIL ......................................................   10
3.       Protocol Elements ........................................   10
3.1.     Entries and Attributes ...................................   10
3.1.1.   Predefined Attributes ....................................   11
3.1.2.   Attribute Metadata .......................................   12
3.2.     ACAP URL scheme ..........................................   13
3.2.1.   ACAP URL User Name and Authentication Mechanism ..........   13
3.2.2.   Relative ACAP URLs .......................................   14
3.3.     Contexts .................................................   14



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3.4.     Comparators ..............................................   15
3.5.     Access Control Lists (ACLs) ..............................   17
3.6.     Server Response Codes ....................................   18
4.       Namespace Conventions ....................................   21
4.1.     Dataset Namespace ........................................   21
4.2.     Attribute Namespace ......................................   21
4.3.     Formal Syntax for Dataset and Attribute Namespace ........   22
5.       Dataset Management .......................................   23
5.1.     Dataset Inheritance ......................................   23
5.2.     Dataset Attributes .......................................   24
5.3.     Dataset Creation .........................................   25
5.4.     Dataset Class Capabilities ...............................   25
5.5.     Dataset Quotas ...........................................   26
6.       Command and Response Specifications ......................   26
6.1.     Initial Connection .......................................   26
6.1.1.   ACAP Untagged Response ...................................   26
6.2.     Any State ................................................   27
6.2.1.   NOOP Command .............................................   27
6.2.2.   LANG Command .............................................   28
6.2.3.   LANG Intermediate Response ...............................   28
6.2.4.   LOGOUT Command ...........................................   29
6.2.5.   OK Response ..............................................   29
6.2.6.   NO Response ..............................................   29
6.2.7.   BAD Response .............................................   30
6.2.8.   BYE Untagged Response ....................................   30
6.2.9.   ALERT Untagged Response ..................................   31
6.3.     Non-Authenticated State ..................................   31
6.3.1.   AUTHENTICATE Command .....................................   31
6.4.     Searching ................................................   33
6.4.1.   SEARCH Command ...........................................   33
6.4.2.   ENTRY Intermediate Response ..............................   37
6.4.3.   MODTIME Intermediate Response ............................   38
6.4.4.   REFER Intermediate Response ..............................   38
6.4.5.   Search Examples ..........................................   38
6.5.     Contexts .................................................   39
6.5.1.   FREECONTEXT Command ......................................   39
6.5.2.   UPDATECONTEXT Command ....................................   40
6.5.3.   ADDTO Untagged Response ..................................   40
6.5.4.   REMOVEFROM Untagged Response .............................   41
6.5.5.   CHANGE Untagged Response .................................   41
6.5.6.   MODTIME Untagged Response ................................   42
6.6.     Dataset modification .....................................   42
6.6.1.   STORE Command ............................................   42
6.6.2.   DELETEDSINCE Command .....................................   45
6.6.3.   DELETED Intermediate Response ............................   45
6.7.     Access Control List Commands .............................   45
6.7.1.   SETACL Command ...........................................   46
6.7.2.   DELETEACL Command ........................................   46



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6.7.3.   MYRIGHTS Command .........................................   47
6.7.4.   MYRIGHTS Intermediate Response ...........................   47
6.7.5.   LISTRIGHTS Command .......................................   47
6.7.6.   LISTRIGHTS Intermediate Response .........................   48
6.8.     Quotas ...................................................   48
6.8.1.   GETQUOTA Command .........................................   48
6.8.3.   QUOTA Untagged Response ..................................   49
6.9.     Extensions ...............................................   49
7.       Registration Procedures ..................................   49
7.1.     ACAP Capabilities ........................................   50
7.2.     ACAP Response Codes ......................................   50
7.3.     Dataset Classes ..........................................   51
7.4.     Vendor Subtree ...........................................   51
8.       Formal Syntax ............................................   52
9.       Multi-lingual Considerations .............................   61
10.      Security Considerations ..................................   62
11.      Acknowledgments ..........................................   63
12.      Authors' Addresses .......................................   63
Appendices ........................................................   64
A.       References ...............................................   64
B.       ACAP Keyword Index .......................................   66
C.       Full Copyright Statement





























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ACAP Protocol Specification

1.       Introduction

1.1.     Conventions Used in this Document

   In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client and
   server respectively.  If such lines are wrapped without a new "C:" or
   "S:" label, then the wrapping is for editorial clarity and is not
   part of the command.

   The key words "REQUIRED", "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT",
   and "MAY" in this document are to be interpreted as described in "Key
   words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels" [KEYWORDS].

1.2.     ACAP Data Model

   An ACAP server exports a hierarchical tree of entries.  Each level of
   the tree is called a dataset, and each dataset is made up of a list
   of entries.  Each entry has a unique name and may contain any number
   of named attributes.  Each attribute within an entry may be single
   valued or multi-valued and may have associated metadata to assist
   access and interpretation of the value.

   The rules with which a client interprets the data within a portion of
   ACAP's tree of entries are called a dataset class.

1.3.     ACAP Design Goals

   ACAP's primary purpose is to allow users access to their
   configuration data from multiple network-connected computers.  Users
   can then sit down in front of any network-connected computer, run any
   ACAP-enabled application and have access to their own configuration
   data.  Because it is hoped that many applications will become ACAP-
   enabled, client simplicity was preferred to server or protocol
   simplicity whenever reasonable.

   ACAP is designed to be easily manageable.  For this reason, it
   includes "inheritance" which allows one dataset to inherit default
   attributes from another dataset.  In addition, access control lists
   are included to permit delegation of management and quotas are
   included to control storage.  Finally, an ACAP server which is
   conformant to this base specification should be able to support most
   dataset classes defined in the future without requiring a server
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   ACAP is designed to operate well with a client that only has
   intermittent access to an ACAP server.  For this reason, each entry
   has a server maintained modification time so that the client may
   detect changes.  In addition, the client may ask the server for a
   list of entries which have been removed since it last accessed the
   server.

   ACAP presumes that a dataset may be potentially large and/or the
   client's network connection may be slow, and thus offers server
   sorting, selective fetching and change notification for entries
   within a dataset.

   As required for most Internet protocols, security, scalability and
   internationalization were important design goals.

   Given these design goals, an attempt was made to keep ACAP as simple
   as possible.  It is a traditional Internet text based protocol which
   massively simplifies protocol debugging.  It was designed based on
   the successful IMAP [IMAP4] protocol framework, with a few
   refinements.

1.4.     Validation

   By default, any value may be stored in any attribute for which the
   user has appropriate permission and quota.  This rule is necessary to
   allow the addition of new simple dataset classes without
   reconfiguring or upgrading the server.

   In some cases, such as when the value has special meaning to the
   server, it is useful to have the server enforce validation by
   returning the INVALID response code to a STORE command. These cases
   MUST be explicitly identified in the dataset class specification
   which SHOULD include specific fixed rules for validation.  Since a
   given ACAP server may be unaware of any particular dataset class
   specification, clients MUST NOT depend on the presence of enforced
   validation on the server.

1.5.     Definitions


   access control list (ACL)
        A set of identifier, rights pairs associated with an object.  An
        ACL is used to determine which operations a user is permitted to
        perform on that object.  See section 3.5.

   attribute
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   comparator
        A named function which can be used to perform one or more of
        three comparison operations: ordering, equality and substring
        matching.  See section 3.4.

   context
        An ordered subset of entries in a dataset, created by a SEARCH
        command with a MAKECONTEXT modifier.  See section 3.3.

   dataset
        One level of hierarchy in ACAP's tree of entries.

   dataset class specification
        The rules which allow a client to interpret the data within a
        portion of ACAP's tree of entries.

   entry
        A set of attributes with a unique entry name.  See section 3.1.

   metadata
        Information describing an attribute, its value and any access
        controls associated with that attribute.  See section 3.1.2.

   NIL  This represents the non-existence of a particular data item.

   NUL  A control character encoded as 0 in US-ASCII [US-ASCII].

   octet
        An 8-bit value.  On most modern computer systems, an octet is
        one byte.

   SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer [SASL].

   UTC  Universal Coordinated Time as maintained by the Bureau
        International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM).

   UTF-8
        An 8-bit transformation format of the Universal Character Set
        [UTF8].  Note that an incompatible change was made to the coded
        character set referenced by [UTF8], so for the purpose of this
        document, UTF-8 refers to the UTF-8 encoding as defined by
        version 2.0 of Unicode [UNICODE-2], or ISO 10646 [ISO-10646]
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1.6.     ACAP Command Overview

   The AUTHENTICATE, NOOP, LANG and LOGOUT commands provide basic
   protocol services.  The SEARCH command is used to select, sort, fetch
   and monitor changes to attribute values and metadata.  The
   UPDATECONTEXT and FREECONTEXT commands are also used to assist in
   monitoring changes in attribute values and metadata.  The STORE
   command is used to add, modify and delete entries and attributes.
   The DELETEDSINCE command is used to assist a client in
   re-synchronizing a cache with the server.  The GETQUOTA, SETACL,
   DELETEACL, LISTRIGHTS and MYRIGHTS commands are used to examine
   storage quotas and examine or modify access permissions.

2.       Protocol Framework

2.1.     Link Level

   The ACAP protocol assumes a reliable data stream such as provided by
   TCP.  When TCP is used, an ACAP server listens on port 674.

2.2.     Commands and Responses

   An ACAP session consists of the establishment of a client/server
   connection, an initial greeting from the server, and client/server
   interactions.  These client/server interactions consist of a client
   command, server data, and a server completion result.

   ACAP is a text-based line-oriented protocol.  In general,
   interactions transmitted by clients and servers are in the form of
   lines; that is, sequences of characters that end with a CRLF.  The
   protocol receiver of an ACAP client or server is either reading a
   line, or is reading a sequence of octets with a known count (a
   literal) followed by a line.  Both clients and servers must be
   capable of handling lines of arbitrary length.

2.2.1.   Client Protocol Sender and Server Protocol Receiver

   The client command begins an operation.  Each client command is
   prefixed with a identifier (an alphanumeric string of no more than 32
   characters, e.g., A0001, A0002, etc.) called a "tag".  A different
   tag SHOULD be generated by the client for each command.

   There are two cases in which a line from the client does not
   represent a complete command.  In one case, a command argument is
   quoted with an octet count (see the description of literal in section
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   feedback (see the AUTHENTICATE command).  In some of these cases, the
   server sends a command continuation request if it is ready for the
   next part of the command.  This response is prefixed with the token
   "+".

        Note: If, instead, the server detected an error in a
        command, it sends a BAD completion response with tag
        matching the command (as described below) to reject the
        command and prevent the client from sending any more of the
        command.

        It is also possible for the server to send a completion or
        intermediate response for some other command (if multiple
        commands are in progress), or untagged data.  In either
        case, the command continuation request is still pending;
        the client takes the appropriate action for the response,
        and reads another response from the server.

   The ACAP server reads a command line from the client, parses the
   command and its arguments, and transmits server data and a server
   command completion result.

2.2.2.   Server Protocol Sender and Client Protocol Receiver

   Data transmitted by the server to the client come in four forms:
   command continuation requests, command completion results,
   intermediate responses, and untagged responses.

   A command continuation request is prefixed with the token "+".

   A command completion result indicates the success or failure of the
   operation.  It is tagged with the same tag as the client command
   which began the operation.  Thus, if more than one command is in
   progress, the tag in a server completion response identifies the
   command to which the response applies.  There are three possible
   server completion responses: OK (indicating success), NO (indicating
   failure), or BAD (indicating protocol error such as unrecognized
   command or command syntax error).

   An intermediate response returns data which can only be interpreted
   within the context of a command in progress.  It is tagged with the
   same tag as the client command which began the operation.  Thus, if
   more than one command is in progress, the tag in an intermediate
   response identifies the command to which the response applies.  A
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   An untagged response returns data or status messages which may be
   interpreted outside the context of a command in progress.  It is
   prefixed with the token "*".  Untagged data may be sent as a result
   of a client command, or may be sent unilaterally by the server.
   There is no syntactic difference between untagged data that resulted
   from a specific command and untagged data that were sent
   unilaterally.

   The protocol receiver of an ACAP client reads a response line from
   the server.  It then takes action on the response based upon the
   first token of the response, which may be a tag, a "*", or a "+" as
   described above.

   A client MUST be prepared to accept any server response at all times.
   This includes untagged data that it may not have requested.

   This topic is discussed in greater detail in the Server Responses
   section.

2.3.     Server States

   An ACAP server is in one of three states.  Most commands are valid in
   only certain states.  It is a protocol error for the client to
   attempt a command while the server is in an inappropriate state for
   that command.  In this case, a server will respond with a BAD command
   completion result.

2.3.1.   Non-Authenticated State

   In non-authenticated state, the user must supply authentication
   credentials before most commands will be permitted.  This state is
   entered when a connection starts.

2.3.2.   Authenticated State

   In authenticated state, the user is authenticated and most commands
   will be permitted.  This state is entered when acceptable
   authentication credentials have been provided.

2.3.3.   Logout State

   In logout state, the session is being terminated, and the server will
   close the connection.  This state can be entered as a result of a
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            +--------------------------------------+
            |initial connection and server greeting|
            +--------------------------------------+
                      || (1)                  || (2)
                      VV                      ||
            +-----------------+               ||
            |non-authenticated|               ||
            +-----------------+               ||
             || (4)      || (3)               ||
             ||          VV                   ||
             ||          +----------------+   ||
             ||          | authenticated  |   ||
             ||          +----------------+   ||
             ||            || (4)             ||
             VV            VV                 VV
            +--------------------------------------+
            |     logout and close connection      |
            +--------------------------------------+

         (1) connection (ACAP greeting)
         (2) rejected connection (BYE greeting)
         (3) successful AUTHENTICATE command
         (4) LOGOUT command, server shutdown, or connection closed

2.4.     Operational Considerations

2.4.1.   Untagged Status Updates

   At any time, a server can send data that the client did not request.

2.4.2.   Response when No Command in Progress

   Server implementations are permitted to send an untagged response
   while there is no command in progress.  Server implementations that
   send such responses MUST deal with flow control considerations.
   Specifically, they must either (1) verify that the size of the data
   does not exceed the underlying transport's available window size, or
   (2) use non-blocking writes.

2.4.3.   Auto-logout Timer

   If a server has an inactivity auto-logout timer, that timer MUST be
   of at least 30 minutes duration.  The receipt of ANY command from the
   client during that interval MUST suffice to reset the auto-logout
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2.4.4.   Multiple Commands in Progress

   The client is not required to wait for the completion result of a
   command before sending another command, subject to flow control
   constraints on the underlying data stream.  Similarly, a server is
   not required to process a command to completion before beginning
   processing of the next command, unless an ambiguity would result
   because of a command that would affect the results of other commands.
   If there is such an ambiguity, the server executes commands to
   completion in the order given by the client.

2.5.     Server Command Continuation Request

   The command continuation request is indicated by a "+" token instead
   of a tag.  This indicates that the server is ready to accept the
   continuation of a command from the client.

   This response is used in the AUTHENTICATE command to transmit server
   data to the client, and request additional client data.  This
   response is also used if an argument to any command is a
   synchronizing literal (see section 2.6.3).

   The client is not permitted to send the octets of a synchronizing
   literal unless the server indicates that it expects it.  This permits
   the server to process commands and reject errors on a line-by-line
   basis, assuming it checks for non-synchronizing literals at the end
   of each line.  The remainder of the command, including the CRLF that
   terminates a command, follows the octets of the literal.  If there
   are any additional command arguments the literal octets are followed
   by a space and those arguments.

   Example:    C: A099 FREECONTEXT {10}
               S: + "Ready for additional command text"
               C: FRED
               C: FOOB
               S: A099 OK "FREECONTEXT completed"
               C: A044 BLURDYBLOOP {102856}
               S: A044 BAD "No such command as 'BLURDYBLOOP'"


2.6.     Data Formats

   ACAP uses textual commands and responses.  Data in ACAP can be in one
   of five forms: atom, number, string, parenthesized list or NIL.







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2.6.1.   Atom

   An atom consists of one to 1024 non-special characters.  It must
   begin with a letter.  Atoms are used for protocol keywords.

2.6.2.   Number

   A number consists of one or more digit characters, and represents a
   numeric value.  Numbers are restricted to the range of an unsigned
   32-bit integer: 0 < number < 4,294,967,296.

2.6.3.   String

   A string is in one of two forms: literal and quoted string.  The
   literal form is the general form of string.  The quoted string form
   is an alternative that avoids the overhead of processing a literal at
   the cost of restrictions of what may be in a quoted string.

   A literal is a sequence of zero or more octets (including CR and LF),
   prefix-quoted with an octet count in the form of an open brace ("{"),
   the number of octets, close brace ("}"), and CRLF.  In the case of
   literals transmitted from server to client, the CRLF is immediately
   followed by the octet data.

   There are two forms of literals transmitted from client to server.
   The form where the open brace ("{") and number of octets is
   immediately followed by a close brace ("}") and CRLF is called a
   synchronizing literal.  When sending a synchronizing literal, the
   client must wait to receive a command continuation request before
   sending the octet data (and the remainder of the command).  The other
   form of literal, the non-synchronizing literal, is used to transmit a
   string from client to server without waiting for a command
   continuation request.  The non-synchronizing literal differs from the
   synchronizing literal by having a plus ("+") between the number of
   octets and the close brace ("}") and by having the octet data
   immediately following the CRLF.

   A quoted string is a sequence of zero to 1024 octets excluding NUL,
   CR and LF, with double quote (<">) characters at each end.

   The empty string is represented as "" (a quoted string with zero
   characters between double quotes), as {0} followed by CRLF (a
   synchronizing literal with an octet count of 0), or as {0+} followed
   by a CRLF (a non-synchronizing literal with an octet count of 0).

        Note: Even if the octet count is 0, a client transmitting a
        synchronizing literal must wait to receive a command
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2.6.3.1. 8-bit and Binary Strings

   Most strings in ACAP are restricted to UTF-8 characters and may not
   contain NUL octets.  Attribute values MAY contain any octets
   including NUL.

2.6.4.   Parenthesized List

   Data structures are represented as a "parenthesized list"; a sequence
   of data items, delimited by space, and bounded at each end by
   parentheses.  A parenthesized list can contain other parenthesized
   lists, using multiple levels of parentheses to indicate nesting.

   The empty list is represented as () -- a parenthesized list with no
   members.

2.6.5.   NIL

   The special atom "NIL" represents the non-existence of a particular
   data item that is represented as a string or parenthesized list, as
   distinct from the empty string "" or the empty parenthesized list ().

3.       Protocol Elements

   This section defines data formats and other protocol elements used
   throughout the ACAP protocol.

3.1.     Entries and Attributes

   Within a dataset, each entry name is made up of zero or more UTF-8
   characters other than slash ("/").  A slash separated list of
   entries, one at each level of the hierarchy, forms the full path to
   an entry.

   Each entry is made up of a set of attributes.  Each attribute has a
   hierarchical name in UTF-8, with each component of the name separated
   by a period (".").

   The value of an attribute is either single or multi-valued.  A single
   value is NIL (has no value), or a string of zero or more octets.  A
   multi-value is a list of zero or more strings, each of zero or more
   octets.

   Attribute names are not permitted to contain asterisk ("*") or
   percent ("%") and MUST be valid UTF-8 strings which do not contain
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   are not permitted to begin with "." or contain slash ("/") and MUST
   be valid UTF-8 strings which do not contain NUL.  Invalid entry names
   in the entry field of a command result in a BAD response.

   Use of non-visible UTF-8 characters in attribute and entry names is
   discouraged.

3.1.1.   Predefined Attributes

   Attribute names which do not contain a dot (".") are reserved for
   standardized attributes which have meaning in any dataset.  The
   following attributes are defined by the ACAP protocol.

   entry
        Contains the name of the entry.  MUST be single valued.
        Attempts to use illegal or multi-valued values for the entry
        attribute are protocol errors and MUST result in a BAD
        completion response.  This is a special case.

   modtime
        Contains the date and time any read-write metadata in the entry
        was last modified.  This value MUST be in UTC, MUST be
        automatically updated by the server.

        The value consists of 14 or more US-ASCII digits.  The first
        four indicate the year, the next two indicate the month, the
        next two indicate the day of month, the next two indicate the
        hour (0 - 23), the next two indicate the minute, and the next
        two indicate the second.  Any further digits indicate fractions
        of a second.

        The time, particularly fractions of a second, need not be
        accurate.  It is REQUIRED, however, that any two entries in a
        dataset changed by successive modifications have strictly
        ascending modtime values.  In addition, each STORE command
        within a dataset (including simultaneous stores from different
        connections) MUST use different modtime values.

        This attribute has enforced validation, so any attempt to STORE
        a value in this attribute MAY result in a NO response with an
        INVALID response code.

   subdataset
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        dataset of this entry.






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        The value consists of a list of relative ACAP URLs (see section
        3.2) which may be used to locate the sub-dataset.  The base URL
        is the full path to the entry followed by a slash ("/").  The
        value "." indicates a subdataset is located directly under this
        one.  Multiple values indicate replicated copies of the
        subdataset.

        For example, if the dataset "/folder/site/" has an entry
        "public-folder" with a subdataset attribute of ".", then there
        exists a dataset "/folder/site/public-folder/".  If the value of
        the subdataset attribute was instead
        "//other.acap.domain//folder/site/public-folder/", that would
        indicate the dataset is actually located on a different ACAP
        server.

        A dataset can be created by storing a "subdataset" attribute
        including ".", and a sub-hierarchy of datasets is deleted by
        storing a NIL value to the "subdataset" attribute on the entry
        in the parent dataset.

        This attribute has enforced syntax validation.  Specifically, if
        an attempt is made to STORE a non-list value (other than NIL),
        an empty list, or one of the values does not follow the URL
        syntax rules [BASIC-URL, REL-URL], then this will result in a NO
        response with an INVALID response code.

3.1.2.   Attribute Metadata

   Each attribute is made up of metadata items which describe that
   attribute, its value and any associated access controls.  Metadata
   items may be either read-only, in which case the client is never
   permitted to modify the item, or read-write, in which case the client
   may modify the item if the access control list (ACL) permits.

   The following metadata items are defined in this specification:

   acl    The access control list for the attribute, if one exists.  If
          the attribute does not have an ACL, NIL is returned.
          Read-write.  See section 3.5 for the contents of an ACL.

   attribute
          The attribute name.  Read-only.

   myrights
          The set of rights that the client has to the attribute.
          Read-only.  See section 3.5 for the possible rights.





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   size   This is the length of the value.  In the case of a
          multi-value, this is a list of lengths for each of the values.
          Read-only.

   value  The value.  For a multi-value, this is a list of single
          values.  Read-write.

   Additional items of metadata may be defined in extensions to this
   protocol.  Servers MUST respond to unrecognized metadata by returning
   a BAD command completion result.

3.2.     ACAP URL scheme

   ACAP URLs are used within the ACAP protocol for the "subdataset"
   attribute, referrals and inheritance.  They provide a convenient
   syntax for referring to other ACAP datasets.  The ACAP URL follows
   the common Internet scheme syntax as defined in [BASIC-URL] except
   that plaintext passwords are not permitted.  If :<port> is omitted,
   the port defaults to 674.

   An ACAP URL has the following general form:

   url-acap  = "acap://" url-server "/" url-enc-entry [url-filter]
               [url-extension]

   The <url-server> element includes the hostname, and optional user
   name, authentication mechanism and port number.  The <url-enc-entry>
   element contains the name of an entry path encoded according to the
   rules in [BASIC-URL].

   The <url-filter> element is an optional list of interesting attribute
   names.  If omitted, the URL refers to all attributes of the named
   entry.  The <url-extension> element is reserved for extensions to
   this URL scheme.

   Note that unsafe or reserved characters such as " " or "?" MUST be
   hex encoded as described in the URL specification [BASIC-URL].  Hex
   encoded octets are interpreted according to UTF-8 [UTF8].

3.2.1.   ACAP URL User Name and Authentication Mechanism

   A user name and/or authentication mechanism may be supplied.  They
   are used in the "AUTHENTICATE" command after making the connection to
   the ACAP server.  If no user name or authentication mechanism is
   supplied, then the SASL ANONYMOUS [SASL-ANON] mechanism is used by
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   name, then one SHOULD be obtained from the specified mechanism or
   requested from the user as appropriate.  If a user name is supplied
   without an authentication mechanism then ";AUTH=*" is assumed.

   The ";AUTH=" authentication parameter is interpreted as described in
   the IMAP URL Scheme [IMAP-URL].

   Note that if unsafe or reserved characters such as " " or ";" are
   present in the user name or authentication mechanism, they MUST be
   encoded as described in the URL specification [BASIC-URL].

3.2.2.   Relative ACAP URLs

   Because ACAP uses "/" as the hierarchy separator for dataset paths,
   it works well with the relative URL rules defined in the relative URL
   specification [REL-URL].

   The <aauth> grammar element is considered part of the user name for
   purposes of resolving relative ACAP URLs.

   The base URL for a relative URL stored in an attribute's value is
   formed by taking the path to the dataset containing that attribute,
   appending a "/" followed by the entry name of the entry containing
   that attribute followed by "/".

3.3.     Contexts

   A context is subset of entries in a dataset or datasets, created by a
   SEARCH command with a MAKECONTEXT modifier.  Context names are
   client-generated strings and must not start with the slash ('/')
   character.

   When a client creates a context, it may request automatic
   notification of changes.  A client may also request enumeration of
   entries within a context.  Enumeration simplifies the implementation
   of a "virtual scrollbar" by the client.

   A context exists only within the ACAP session in which it was
   created.  When the connection is closed, all contexts associated with
   that connection are automatically discarded.  A server is required to
   support at least 100 active contexts within a session.  If the server
   supports a larger limit it must advertise it in a CONTEXTLIMIT
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3.4.     Comparators

   A comparator is a named function which takes two input values and can
   be used to perform one or more of four comparison operations:
   ordering, equality, prefix and substring matching.

   The ordering operation is used both for the SORT search modifier and
   the COMPARE and COMPARESTRICT search keys.  Ordering comparators can
   determine the ordinal precedence of any two values.  When used for
   ordering, a comparator's name can be prefixed with "+" or "-" to
   indicate that the ordering should be normal order or reversed order
   respectively.  If no prefix is included, "+" is assumed.

   For the purpose of ordering, a comparator may designate certain
   values as having an undefined ordinal precedence.  Such values always
   collate with equal value after all other values regardless of whether
   normal or reversed ordering is used.  Unless the comparator
   definition specifies otherwise, multi-values and NIL values have an
   undefined ordinal precedence.

   The equality operation is used for the EQUAL search modifier, and
   simply determines if the two values are considered equal under the
   comparator function.  When comparing a single value to a multi-value,
   the two are considered equal if any one of the multiple values is
   equal to the single value.

   The prefix match operation is used for the PREFIX search modifier,
   and simply determines if the search value is a prefix of the item
   being searched.  In the case of prefix search on a multi-value, the
   match is successful if the value is a prefix of any one of the
   multiple values.

   The substring match operation is used for the SUBSTRING search
   modifier, and simply determines if search value is a substring of the
   item being searched.  In the case of substring search on a multi-
   value, the match is successful if the value is a substring of any one
   of the multiple values.

   Rules for naming and registering comparators will be defined in a
   future specification.  Servers MUST respond to unknown or improperly
   used comparators with a BAD command completion result.










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   The following comparators are defined by this standard and MUST be
   implemented:

      i;octet
           Operations: Ordering, Equality, Prefix match, Substring match

           For collation, the i;octet comparator interprets the value of
           an attribute as a series of unsigned octets with ordinal
           values from 0 to 255.  When ordering two strings, each octet
           pair is compared in sequence until the octets are unequal or
           the end of the string is reached.  When collating two strings
           where the shorter is a prefix of the longer, the shorter
           string is interpreted as having a smaller ordinal value.  The
           "i;octet" or "+i;octet" forms collate smaller ordinal values
           earlier, and the "-i;octet" form collates larger ordinal
           values earlier.

           For the equality function, two strings are equal if they are
           the same length and contain the same octets in the same
           order.  NIL is equal only to itself.

           For non-binary, non-nil single values, i;octet ordering is
           equivalent to the ANSI C [ISO-C] strcmp() function applied to
           C string representations of the values.  For non-binary,
           non-nil single values, i;octet substring match is equivalent
           to the ANSI C strstr() function applied to the C string
           representations of the values.

      i;ascii-casemap
           Operations: Ordering, Equality, Prefix match, Substring match

           The i;ascii-casemap comparator first applies a mapping to the
           attribute values which translates all US-ASCII letters to
           uppercase (octet values 0x61 to 0x7A are translated to octet
           values 0x41 to 0x5A respectively), then applies the i;octet
           comparator as described above.  With this function the values
           "hello" and "HELLO" have the same ordinal value and are
           considered equal.

      i;ascii-numeric
           Operations: Ordering, Equality

           The i;ascii-numeric comparator interprets strings as decimal
           positive integers represented as US-ASCII digits.  All values
           which do not begin with a US-ASCII digit are considered equal
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           attributes.  Otherwise, all US-ASCII digits (octet values
           0x30 to 0x39) are interpreted starting from the beginning of
           the string to the first non-digit or the end of the string.


3.5.     Access Control Lists (ACLs)

   An access control list is a set of identifier, rights pairs used to
   restrict access to a given dataset, attribute or attribute within an
   entry.  An ACL is represented by a multi-value with each value
   containing an identifier followed by a tab character followed by the
   rights.  The syntax is defined by the "acl" rule in the formal syntax
   in section 8.

   Identifier is a UTF-8 string.  The identifier "anyone" is reserved to
   refer to the universal identity (all authentications, including
   anonymous).  All user name strings accepted by the AUTHENTICATE
   command to authenticate to the ACAP server are reserved as
   identifiers for the corresponding user.  Identifiers starting with a
   slash ("/") character are reserved for authorization groups which
   will be defined in a future specification.  Identifiers MAY be
   prefixed with a dash ("-") to indicate a revocation of rights.  All
   other identifiers have implementation-defined meanings.

   Rights is a string listing a (possibly empty) set of alphanumeric
   characters, each character listing a set of operations which is being
   controlled.  Letters are reserved for "standard" rights, listed
   below.  The set of standard rights may only be extended by a
   standards-track or IESG approved experimental RFC.  Digits are
   reserved for implementation or site defined rights.  The currently
   defined standard rights are:

   x - search (use EQUAL search key with i;octet comparator)
   r - read (access with SEARCH command)
   w - write (modify with STORE command)
   i - insert (perform STORE on a previously NIL value)
   a - administer (perform SETACL or STORE on ACL attribute/metadata)

   An implementation may force rights to always or never be granted.  In
   particular, implementations are expected to grant implicit read and
   administer rights to a user's personal dataset storage in order to
   avoid denial of service problems.  Rights are never tied, unlike the
   IMAP ACL extension [IMAP-ACL].

   It is possible for multiple identifiers in an access control list to
   apply to a given user (or other authentication identity).  For
   example, an ACL may include rights to be granted to the identifier
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   matching groups which include the user, and/or the identifier
   "anyone".  These rights are combined by taking the union of all
   positive rights which apply to a given user and subtracting the union
   of all negative rights which apply to that user.  A client MAY avoid
   this calculation by using the MYRIGHTS command and metadata items.

   Each attribute of each entry of a dataset may potentially have an
   ACL.  If an attribute in an entry does not have an ACL, then access
   is controlled by a default ACL for that attribute in the dataset, if
   it exists.  If there is no default ACL for that attribute in the
   dataset, access is controlled by a default ACL for that dataset.  The
   default ACL for a dataset must exist.

   In order to perform any access or manipulation on an entry in a
   dataset, the client must have 'r' rights on the "entry" attribute of
   the entry.  Implementations should take care not to reveal via error
   messages the existence of an entry for which the client does not have
   'r' rights.  A client does not need access to the "subdataset"
   attribute of the parent dataset in order to access the contents of a
   dataset.

   Many of the ACL commands and responses include an "acl object"
   parameter, for specifying what the ACL applies to.  This is a
   parenthesized list.  The list contains just the dataset name when
   referring to the default ACL for a dataset.  The list contains a
   dataset name and an attribute name when referring to the default ACL
   for an attribute in a dataset.  The list contains a dataset name, an
   attribute name, and an entry name when referring to the ACL for an
   attribute of an entry of a dataset.


3.6.     Server Response Codes

   An OK, NO, BAD, ALERT or BYE response from the server MAY contain a
   response code to describe the event in a more detailed machine
   parsable fashion.  A response code consists of data inside
   parentheses in the form of an atom, possibly followed by a space and
   arguments.  Response codes are defined when there is a specific
   action that a client can take based upon the additional information.
   In order to support future extension, the response code is
   represented as a slash-separated hierarchy with each level of
   hierarchy representing increasing detail about the error.  Clients
   MUST tolerate additional hierarchical response code detail which they
   don't understand.

   The currently defined response codes are:





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      AUTH-TOO-WEAK
           This response code is returned on a tagged NO result from an
           AUTHENTICATE command.  It indicates that site security policy
           forbids the use of the requested mechanism for the specified
           authentication identity.

      ENCRYPT-NEEDED
           This response code is returned on a tagged NO result from an
           AUTHENTICATE command.  It indicates that site security policy
           requires the use of a strong encryption mechanism for the
           specified authentication identity and mechanism.

      INVALID
           This response code indicates that a STORE command included
           data which the server implementation does not permit.  It
           MUST NOT be used unless the dataset class specification for
           the attribute in question explicitly permits enforced server
           validation.  The argument is the attribute which was invalid.

      MODIFIED
           This response code indicates that a conditional store failed
           because the modtime on the entry is later than the modtime
           specified with the STORE command UNCHANGEDSINCE modifier.
           The argument is the entry which had been modified.

      NOEXIST
           This response code indicates that a search or NOCREATE store
           failed because a specified dataset did not exist.  The
           argument is the dataset which does not exist.

      PERMISSION
           A command failed due to insufficient permission based on the
           access control list or implicit rights.  The argument is the
           acl-object which caused the permission failure.

      QUOTA
           A STORE or SETACL command which would have increased the size
           of the dataset failed due to insufficient quota.

      REFER
           This response code may be returned in a tagged NO response to
           any command that takes a dataset name as a parameter.  It has
           one or more arguments with the syntax of relative URLs.  It
           is a referral, indicating that the command should be retried
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      SASL This response code can occur in the tagged OK response to a
           successful AUTHENTICATE command and includes the optional
           final server response data from the server as specified by
           SASL [SASL].

      TOOMANY
           This response code may be returned in a tagged OK response to
           a SEARCH command which includes the LIMIT modifier.  The
           argument returns the total number of matching entries.

      TOOOLD
           The modtime specified in the DELETEDSINCE command is too old,
           so deletedsince information is no longer available.

      TRANSITION-NEEDED
           This response code occurs on a NO response to an AUTHENTICATE
           command.  It indicates that the user name is valid, but the
           entry in the authentication database needs to be updated in
           order to permit authentication with the specified mechanism.
           This can happen if a user has an entry in a system
           authentication database such as Unix /etc/passwd, but does
           not have credentials suitable for use by the specified
           mechanism.

      TRYLATER
           A command failed due to a temporary server failure.  The
           client MAY continue using local information and try the
           command later.

      TRYFREECONTEXT
           This response code may be returned in a tagged NO response to
           a SEARCH command which includes the MAKECONTEXT modifier.  It
           indicates that a new context may not be created due to the
           server's limit on the number of existing contexts.

      WAYTOOMANY
           This response code may be returned in a tagged NO response to
           a SEARCH command which includes a HARDLIMIT search modifier.
           It indicates that the SEARCH would have returned more entries
           than the HARDLIMIT permitted.

      Additional response codes MUST be registered with IANA according
      to the proceedures in section 7.2.  Client implementations MUST
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4.       Namespace Conventions

4.1.     Dataset Namespace

   The dataset namespace is a slash-separated hierarchy.  The first
   component of the dataset namespace is a dataset class.  Dataset
   classes MUST have a vendor prefix (vendor.<vendor/product>) or be
   specified in a standards track or IESG approved experimental RFC.
   See section 7.3 for the registration template.

   The second component of the dataset name is "site", "group", "host",
   or "user" referring to server-wide data, administrative group data,
   per-host data and per-user data respectively.

   For "group", "host", and "user" areas, the third component of the
   path is the group name, the fully qualified host domain name, or the
   user name.  A path of the form "/<dataset-class>/~/" is a convenient
   abbreviation for "/<dataset-class>/user/<current-user>/".

   Dataset names which begin with "/byowner/" are reserved as an
   alternate view of the namespace.  This provides a way to see all the
   dataset classes which a particular owner uses.  For example,
   "/byowner/~/<dataset-class>/" is an alternate name for
   "/<dataset-class>/~/".  Byowner provides a way to view a list of
   dataset classes owned by a given user; this is done using the dataset
   "/byowner/user/<current-user>/" with the NOINHERIT SEARCH modifier.

   The dataset "/" may be used to find all dataset classes visible to
   the current user.  A dataset of the form "/<dataset-class>/user/" may
   be used to find all users which have made a dataset or entry of that
   class visible to the current user.

   The formal syntax for a dataset name is defined by the "dataset-name"
   rule in section 4.3.

4.2.     Attribute Namespace

   Attribute names which do not contain a dot (".") are reserved for
   standardized attributes which have meaning in any dataset.  In order
   to simplify client implementations, the attribute namespace is
   intended to be unique across all datasets.  To achieve this,
   attribute names are prefixed with the dataset class name followed by
   a dot (".").  Attributes which affect management of the dataset are
   prefixed with "dataset.".  In addition, a subtree of the "vendor."
   attribute namespace may be registered with IANA according to the
   rules in section 7.4.  ACAP implementors are encouraged to help
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   Some users or sites may wish to add their own private attributes to
   certain dataset classes.  In order to enable this, the "user.<user-
   name>." and "site." subtrees of the attribute namespace are reserved
   for user-specific and site-specific attributes respectively and will
   not be standardized.  Such attributes are not interoperable so are
   discouraged in favor of defining standard attributes.  A future
   extension is expected to permit discovery of syntax for user or
   site-specific attributes.  Clients wishing to support display of user
   or site-specific attributes should display the value of any non-NIL
   single-valued "user.<user-name>." or "site."  attribute which has
   valid UTF-8 syntax.

   The formal syntax for an attribute name is defined by the
   "attribute-name" rule in the next section.

4.3.     Formal Syntax for Dataset and Attribute Namespace

   The naming conventions for datasets and attributes are defined by the
   following ABNF.   Note that this grammar is not part of the ACAP
   protocol syntax in section 8, as dataset names and attribute names
   are encoded as strings within the ACAP protocol.

   attribute-dacl  = "dataset.acl" *("." name-component)

   attribute-dset  = dataset-std 1*("." name-component)
                     ;; MUST be defined in a dataset class specification

   attribute-name  = attribute-std / attr-site / attr-user / vendor-name

   attribute-std   = "entry" / "subdataset" / "modtime" /
                     "dataset.inherit" / attribute-dacl / attribute-dset

   attr-site       = "site" 1*("." name-component)

   attr-user       = "user." name-component 1*("." name-component)

   byowner         = "/byowner/" owner "/"
                     [dataset-class "/" dataset-sub]

   dataset-class   = dataset-std / vendor-name

   dataset-normal  = "/" [dataset-class "/"
                     (owner-prefix / dataset-tail)]

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   dataset-std     = name-component
                     ;; MUST be registered with IANA and the spec MUST
                     ;; be published as a standards track or
                     ;; IESG-approved experimental RFC

   dataset-sub     = *(dname-component "/")
                     ;; The rules for this portion of the namespace may
                     ;; be further restricted by the dataset class
                     ;; specification.

   dataset-tail    = owner "/" dataset-sub

   dname-component = 1*UTF8-CHAR
                     ;; MUST NOT begin with "." or contain "/"

   name-component  = 1*UTF8-CHAR
                     ;; MUST NOT contain ".", "/", "%", or "*"

   owner           = "site" / owner-host / owner-group /
                     owner-user / "~"

   owner-group     = "group/" dname-component

   owner-host      = "host/" dname-component

   owner-prefix    = "group/" / "host/" / "user/"

   owner-user      = "user/" dname-component

   vendor-name     = vendor-token *("." name-component)

   vendor-token    = "vendor." name-component
                     ;; MUST be registered with IANA

5.       Dataset Management

   The entry with an empty name ("") in the dataset is used to hold
   management information for the dataset as a whole.

5.1.     Dataset Inheritance

   It is possible for one dataset to inherit data from another.  The
   dataset from which the data is inherited is called the base dataset.
   Data in the base dataset appears in the inheriting dataset, except
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   The base dataset is usually a system-wide or group-wide set of
   defaults.  A system-wide dataset usually has one inheriting dataset
   per user, allowing each user to add to or modify the defaults as
   appropriate.

   An entry which exists in both the inheriting and base dataset
   inherits a modtime equal to the greater of the two modtimes.  An
   attribute in such an entry is inherited from the base dataset if it
   was never modified by a STORE command in the inheriting dataset or if
   DEFAULT was stored to that attribute.  This permits default entries
   to be amended rather than replaced in the inheriting dataset.

   The "subdataset" attribute is not directly inherited.  If the base
   dataset includes a "subdataset" attribute and the inheriting dataset
   does not, then the "subdataset" attribute will inherit a virtual
   value of a list containing a ".".  The subdataset at that node is
   said to be a "virtual" dataset as it is simply a virtual copy of the
   appropriate base dataset with all "subdataset" attributes changed to
   a list containing a ".".  A virtual dataset is not visible if
   NOINHERIT is specified on the SEARCH command.

   Servers MUST support at least two levels of inheritance.  This
   permits a user's dataset such as "/options/user/fred/common" to
   inherit from a group dataset such as "/options/group/dinosaur
   operators/common" which in turn inherits from a server-wide dataset
   such as "/options/site/common".

5.2.     Dataset Attributes

   The following attributes apply to management of the dataset when
   stored in the "" entry of a dataset.  These attributes are not
   inherited.

   dataset.acl
        This holds the default access control list for the dataset.
        This attribute is validated, so an invalid access control list
        in a STORE command will result in a NO response with an INVALID
        response code.

   dataset.acl.<attribute>
        This holds the default access control list for an attribute
        within the dataset.  This attribute is validated, so an invalid
        access control list in a STORE command will result in a NO
        response with an INVALID response code.

   dataset.inherit
        This holds the name of a dataset from which to inherit according
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        to a non-existent dataset, in which case nothing is inherited.
        This attribute is validated, so illegal dataset syntax or an
        attempt to store a multi-value will result in a NO response with
        an INVALID response code.

5.3.     Dataset Creation

   When a dataset is first created (by storing a "." in the subdataset
   attribute or storing an entry in a previously non-existent dataset),
   the dataset attributes are initialized with the values from the
   parent dataset in the "/byowner/" hierarchy.  In the case of the
   "dataset.inherit" attribute, the appropriate hierarchy component is
   added.  For example, given the following entry (note that \t refers
   to the US-ASCII horizontal tab character):

   entry path        "/byowner/user/joe/"
   dataset.acl       ("joe\txrwia" "fred\txr")
   dataset.inherit   "/byowner/site"

   If a new dataset class "/byowner/user/joe/new" is created, it will
   have the following dataset attributes:

   entry path        "/byowner/user/joe/new/"
   dataset.acl       ("joe\txrwia" "fred\txr")
   dataset.inherit   "/byowner/site/new"

   Note that the dataset "/byowner/user/joe/new/" is equivalent to
   "/new/user/joe/".

5.4.     Dataset Class Capabilities

   Certain dataset classes or dataset class features may only be useful
   if there is an active updating client or integrated server support
   for the feature.  The dataset class "capability" is reserved to allow
   clients or servers to advertise such features.  The "entry" attribute
   within this dataset class is the name of the dataset class whose
   features are being described.  The attributes are prefixed with
   "capability.<dataset-class>." and are defined by the appropriate
   dataset class specification.

   Since it is possible for an unprivileged user to run an active client
   for himself, a per-user capability dataset is useful.  The dataset
   "/capability/~/" holds information about all features available to
   the user (via inheritance), and the dataset "/capability/site/" holds
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5.5.     Dataset Quotas

   Management and scope of quotas is implementation dependent.  Clients
   can check the applicable quota limit and usage (in bytes) with the
   GETQUOTA command.  Servers can notify the client of a low quota
   situation with the QUOTA untagged response.

6.       Command and Response Specifications

   ACAP commands and responses are described in this section.  Commands
   are organized first by the state in which the command is permitted,
   then by a general category of command type.

   Command arguments, identified by "Arguments:" in the command
   descriptions below, are described by function, not by syntax.  The
   precise syntax of command arguments is described in the Formal Syntax
   section.

   Some commands cause specific server data to be returned; these are
   identified by "Data:" in the command descriptions below.  See the
   response descriptions in the Responses section for information on
   these responses, and the Formal Syntax section for the precise syntax
   of these responses.  It is possible for server data to be transmitted
   as a result of any command; thus, commands that do not specifically
   require server data specify "no specific data for this command"
   instead of "none".

   The "Result:" in the command description refers to the possible
   tagged status responses to a command, and any special interpretation
   of these status responses.

6.1.     Initial Connection

   Upon session startup, the server sends one of two untagged responses:
   ACAP or BYE.  The untagged BYE response is described in section
   6.2.8.

6.1.1.   ACAP Untagged Response

   Data:       capability list

      The untagged ACAP response indicates the session is ready to
      accept commands and contains a space-separated listing of
      capabilities that the server supports.  Each capability is
      represented by a list containing the capability name optionally
      followed by capability specific string arguments.





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      ACAP capability names MUST be registered with IANA according to
      the rules in section 7.1.

      Client implementations SHOULD NOT require any capability name
      beyond those defined in this specification, and MUST tolerate any
      unknown capability names.  A client implementation MAY be
      configurable to require SASL mechanisms other than CRAM-MD5
      [CRAM-MD5] for site security policy reasons.

      The following initial capabilities are defined:

      CONTEXTLIMIT
            The CONTEXTLIMIT capability has one argument which is a
            number describing the maximum number of contexts the server
            supports per connection.  The number 0 indicates the server
            has no limit, otherwise this number MUST be greater than
            100.

      IMPLEMENTATION
            The IMPLEMENTATION capability has one argument which is a
            string describing the server implementation.  ACAP clients
            MUST NOT alter their behavior based on this value.  It is
            intended primarily for debugging purposes.

      SASL  The SASL capability includes a list of the authentication
            mechanisms supported by the server.  See section 6.3.1.


   Example:    S: * ACAP (IMPLEMENTATION "ACME v3.5")
                         (SASL "CRAM-MD5") (CONTEXTLIMIT "200")

6.2.     Any State

   The following commands and responses are valid in any state.

6.2.1.   NOOP Command

   Arguments:  none

   Data:       no specific data for this command (but see below)

   Result:     OK - noop completed
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      The NOOP command always succeeds.  It does nothing.  It can be
      used to reset any inactivity auto-logout timer on the server.

   Example:    C: a002 NOOP



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               S: a002 OK "NOOP completed"


6.2.2.   LANG Command

   Arguments:  list of language preferences

   Data:       intermediate response: LANG

   Result:     OK - lang completed
               NO - no matching language available
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      One or more arguments are supplied to indicate the client's
      preferred languages [LANG-TAGS] for error messages.  The server
      will match each client preference in order against its internal
      table of available error string languages.  For a client
      preference to match a server language, the client's language tag
      MUST be a prefix of the server's tag and match up to a "-" or the
      end of string.  If a match is found, the server returns an
      intermediate LANG response and an OK response.  The LANG response
      indicates the actual language selected and appropriate comparators
      for use with the languages listed in the LANG command.

      If no LANG command is issued, all error text strings MUST be in
      the registered language "i-default" [CHARSET-LANG-POLICY],
      intended for an international audience.

   Example:    C: A003 LANG "fr-ca" "fr" "en-ca" "en-uk"
               S: A003 LANG "fr-ca" "i;octet" "i;ascii-numeric"
                       "i;ascii-casemap" "en;primary" "fr;primary"
               S: A003 OK "Bonjour"


6.2.3.   LANG Intermediate Response

   Data:       language for error responses
               appropriate comparators

      The LANG response indicates the language which will be used for
      error responses and the comparators which are appropriate for the
      languages listed in the LANG command.  The comparators SHOULD be
      in approximate order from most efficient (usually "i;octet") to
      most appropriate for human text in the preferred language.







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6.2.4.   LOGOUT Command

   Arguments:  none

   Data:       mandatory untagged response: BYE

   Result:     OK - logout completed
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      The LOGOUT command informs the server that the client is done with
      the session.  The server must send a BYE untagged response before
      the (tagged) OK response, and then close the network connection.

   Example:    C: A023 LOGOUT
               S: * BYE "ACAP Server logging out"
               S: A023 OK "LOGOUT completed"
               (Server and client then close the connection)


6.2.5.   OK Response

   Data:       optional response code
               human-readable text

      The OK response indicates an information message from the server.
      When tagged, it indicates successful completion of the associated
      command.  The human-readable text may be presented to the user as
      an information message.  The untagged form indicates an
      information-only message; the nature of the information MAY be
      indicated by a response code.

   Example:    S: * OK "Master ACAP server is back up"


6.2.6.   NO Response

   Data:       optional response code
               human-readable text

      The NO response indicates an operational error message from the
      server.  When tagged, it indicates unsuccessful completion of the
      associated command.  The untagged form indicates a warning; the
      command may still complete successfully.  The human-readable text
      describes the condition.

   Example:    C: A010 SEARCH "/addressbook/" DEPTH 3 RETURN ("*")
                       EQUAL "entry" "+i;octet" "bozo"
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                        be out of date."
               S: A010 OK "search done"
                  ...
               C: A222 STORE ("/folder/site/comp.mail.misc"
                              "folder.creation-time" "19951206103412")
               S: A222 NO (PERMISSION ("/folder/site/")) "Permission
               denied"


6.2.7.   BAD Response

   Data:       optional response code
               human-readable text

      The BAD response indicates an error message from the server.  When
      tagged, it reports a protocol-level error in the client's command;
      the tag indicates the command that caused the error.  The untagged
      form indicates a protocol-level error for which the associated
      command can not be determined; it may also indicate an internal
      server failure.  The human-readable text describes the condition.

   Example:    C: ...empty line...
               S: * BAD "Empty command line"
               C: A443 BLURDYBLOOP
               S: A443 BAD "Unknown command"
               C: A444 NOOP Hello
               S: A444 BAD "invalid arguments"


6.2.8.   BYE Untagged Response

   Data:       optional response code
               human-readable text

      The untagged BYE response indicates that the server is about to
      close the connection.  The human-readable text may be displayed to
      the user in a status report by the client.  The BYE response may
      be sent as part of a normal logout sequence, or as a panic
      shutdown announcement by the server.  It is also used by some
      server implementations as an announcement of an inactivity auto-
      logout.

      This response is also used as one of two possible greetings at
      session startup.  It indicates that the server is not willing to
      accept a session from this client.

   Example:    S: * BYE "Auto-logout; idle for too long"




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6.2.9.   ALERT Untagged Response

   Data:       optional response code
               human-readable text

      The human-readable text contains a special human generated alert
      message that MUST be presented to the user in a fashion that calls
      the user's attention to the message.  This is intended to be used
      for vital messages from the server administrator to the user, such
      as a warning that the server will soon be shut down for
      maintenance.

   Example:    S: * ALERT "This ACAP server will be shut down in
                           10 minutes for system maintenance."


6.3.     Non-Authenticated State

   In non-authenticated state, the AUTHENTICATE command establishes
   authentication and enters authenticated state.  The AUTHENTICATE
   command provides a general mechanism for a variety of authentication
   techniques.

   Server implementations may allow non-authenticated access to certain
   information by supporting the SASL ANONYMOUS [SASL-ANON] mechanism.

   Once authenticated (including as anonymous), it is not possible to
   re-enter non-authenticated state.

   Only the any-state commands (NOOP, LANG and LOGOUT) and the
   AUTHENTICATE command are valid in non-authenticated state.


6.3.1.   AUTHENTICATE Command

   Arguments:  SASL mechanism name
               optional initial response

   Data:       continuation data may be requested

   Result:     OK - authenticate completed, now in authenticated state
               NO - authenticate failure: unsupported authentication
                    mechanism, credentials rejected
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid,
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      The AUTHENTICATE command indicates a SASL [SASL] authentication
      mechanism to the server.  If the server supports the requested
      authentication mechanism, it performs an authentication protocol
      exchange to authenticate and identify the user.  Optionally, it
      also negotiates a security layer for subsequent protocol
      interactions.  If the requested authentication mechanism is not
      supported, the server rejects the AUTHENTICATE command by sending
      a tagged NO response.

      The authentication protocol exchange consists of a series of
      server challenges and client answers that are specific to the
      authentication mechanism.  A server challenge consists of a
      command continuation request with the "+" token followed by a
      string.  The client answer consists of a line consisting of a
      string.  If the client wishes to cancel an authentication
      exchange, it should issue a line with a single unquoted "*".  If
      the server receives such an answer, it must reject the
      AUTHENTICATE command by sending a tagged BAD response.

      The optional initial-response argument to the AUTHENTICATE command
      is used to save a round trip when using authentication mechanisms
      that are defined to send no data in the initial challenge.  When
      the initial-response argument is used with such a mechanism, the
      initial empty challenge is not sent to the client and the server
      uses the data in the initial-response argument as if it were sent
      in response to the empty challenge.  If the initial-response
      argument to the AUTHENTICATE command is used with a mechanism that
      sends data in the initial challenge, the server rejects the
      AUTHENTICATE command by sending a tagged NO response.

      The service name specified by this protocol's profile of SASL is
      "acap".

      If a security layer is negotiated through the SASL authentication
      exchange, it takes effect immediately following the CRLF that
      concludes the authentication exchange for the client, and the CRLF
      of the tagged OK response for the server.

      All ACAP implementations MUST implement the CRAM-MD5 SASL
      mechanism [CRAM-MD5], although they MAY offer a configuration
      option to disable it if site security policy dictates.  The
      example below is the same example described in the CRAM-MD5
      specification.

      If an AUTHENTICATE command fails with a NO response, the client
      may try another authentication mechanism by issuing another
      AUTHENTICATE command.  In other words, the client may request
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   Example:    S: * ACAP (IMPLEMENTATION "Blorfysoft v3.5")
                         (SASL "CRAM-MD5" "KERBEROS_V4")
               C: A001 AUTHENTICATE "CRAM-MD5"
               S: + "<1896.697170952@postoffice.reston.mci.net>"
               C: "tim b913a602c7eda7a495b4e6e7334d3890"
               S: A001 OK "CRAM-MD5 authentication successful"


6.4.     Searching

   This section describes the SEARCH command, for retrieving data from
   datasets.


6.4.1.   SEARCH Command

   Arguments:  dataset or context name
               optional list of modifiers
               search criteria

   Data:       intermediate responses: ENTRY, MODTIME, REFER
               untagged responses: ADDTO, REMOVEFROM, CHANGE, MODTIME

   Result:     OK - search completed
               NO - search failure: can't perform search
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      The SEARCH command identifies a subset of entries in a dataset and
      returns information on that subset to the client.  Inherited
      entries and attributes are included in the search unless the
      NOINHERIT search modifier is included or the user does not have
      permission to read the attributes in the base dataset.

      The first argument to SEARCH identifies what is to be searched.
      If the string begins with a slash ("/"), it is the name of a
      dataset to be searched, otherwise it is a name of a context that
      was created by a SEARCH command given previously in the session.

      A successful SEARCH command MAY result in intermediate ENTRY
      responses and MUST result in a MODTIME intermediate response.

      Following that are zero or more modifiers to the search.  Each
      modifier may be specified at most once.  The defined modifiers
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      DEPTH number
           The SEARCH command will traverse the dataset tree up to the
           specified depth.  ENTRY responses will include the full path
           to the entry.  A value of "0" indicates that the search
           should traverse the entire tree.  A value of "1" is the
           default and indicates only the specified dataset should be
           searched.  If a dataset is traversed which is not located on
           the current server, then a REFER intermediate response is
           returned for that subtree and the search continues.

      HARDLIMIT number
           If the SEARCH command would result in more than number
           entries, the SEARCH fails with a NO completion result with a
           WAYTOOMANY response code.

      LIMIT number number
           Limits the number of intermediate ENTRY responses that the
           search may generate.  The first numeric argument specifies
           the limit, the second number specifies the number of entries
           to return if the number of matches exceeds the limit.  If the
           limit is exceeded, the SEARCH command still succeeds,
           returning the total number of matches in a TOOMANY response
           code in the tagged OK response.

      MAKECONTEXT [ENUMERATE] [NOTIFY] context
           Causes the SEARCH command to create a context with the name
           given in the argument to refer to the matching entries.  If
           the SEARCH is successful, the context name may then be given
           as an argument to subsequent SEARCH commands to search the
           set of matching entries.  If a context with the specified
           name already exists, it is first freed.  If a new context may
           not be created due to the server's limit on the number of
           existing contexts, the command fails, returning a
           TRYFREECONTEXT response code in the NO completion response.

           The optional "ENUMERATE" and "NOTIFY" arguments may be
           included to request enumeration of the context (for virtual
           scroll bars) or change notifications for the context.  If
           "NOTIFY" is not requested, the context represents a snapshot
           of the entries at the time the SEARCH was issued.

           ENUMERATE requests that the contents of the context be
           ordered according to the SORT modifier and that sequential
           numbers, starting with one, be assigned to the entries in the
           context.  This permits the RANGE modifier to be used to fetch
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           NOTIFY requests that the server send untagged ADDTO,
           REMOVEFROM, CHANGE, and MODTIME responses while the context
           created by this SEARCH command exists.  The server MAY issue
           untagged ADDTO, REMOVEFROM, CHANGE and MODTIME notifications
           for a context at any time between the issuing of the SEARCH
           command with MAKECONTEXT NOTIFY and the completion of a
           FREECONTEXT command for the context.  Notifications are only
           issued for changes which occur after the server receives the
           SEARCH command which created the context.  After issuing a
           sequence of ADDTO, REMOVEFROM or CHANGE notifications, the
           server MUST issue an untagged MODTIME notification indicating
           that the client has all updates to the entries in the context
           up to and including the given modtime value.  Servers are
           permitted a reasonable delay to batch change notifications
           before sending them to the client.

           The position arguments of the ADDTO, REMOVEFROM and CHANGE
           notifications are 0 if ENUMERATE is not requested.

      NOINHERIT
           This causes the SEARCH command to operate without
           inheritance.  It can be used to tell which values are
           explicit overrides.  If MAKECONTEXT is also specified, the
           created context is also not affected by inheritance.

      RETURN (metadata...)
           Specifies what is to be returned in intermediate ENTRY
           responses.  If this modifier is not specified, no
           intermediate ENTRY responses are returned.

           Inside the parentheses is an optional list of attributes,
           each optionally followed by a parenthesized list of metadata.
           If the parenthesized list of metadata is not specified, it
           defaults to "(value)".

           An attribute name with a trailing "*" requests all attributes
           with that prefix.  A "*" by itself requests all attributes.
           If the parenthesized list of metadata is not specified for an
           attribute with a trailing "*", it defaults to "(attribute
           value)".  Results matching such an attribute pattern are
           grouped in parentheses.

           Following the last intermediate ENTRY response, the server
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      SORT (attribute comparator ...)
           Specifies the order in which any resulting ENTRY replies are
           to be returned to the client.  The SORT modifier takes as an
           argument a parenthesized list of one or more
           attribute/comparator pairs.  Attribute lists the attribute to
           sort on, comparator specifies the name of the collation rule
           to apply to the values of the attribute.  Successive
           attribute/comparator pairs are used to order two entries only
           when all preceding pairs indicate the two entries collate the
           same.

           If the SORT modifier is used in conjunction with the
           MAKECONTEXT modifier, the SORT modifier specifies the
           ordering of entries in the created context.

           If no SORT modifier is specified, or none of the
           attribute/comparator pairs indicates an order for the two
           entries, the server uses the order of the entries that exists
           in the context or dataset being searched.


      Following the modifiers is the search criteria.  Searching
      criteria consist of one or more search keys.  Search keys may be
      combined using the AND, and OR search keys.  For example, the
      criteria (the newline is for readability and not part of the
      criteria):
          AND COMPARE "modtime" "+i;octet" "19951206103400"
              COMPARE "modtime" "-i;octet" "19960112000000"
      refers to all entries modified between 10:34 December 6 1995 and
      midnight January 12, 1996 UTC.

      The currently defined search keys are as follows.

      ALL  This matches all entries.

      AND search-key1 search-key2
           Entries that match both search keys.

      COMPARE attribute comparator value
           Entries for which the value of the specified attribute
           collates using the specified comparator the same or later
           than the specified value.

      COMPARESTRICT attribute comparator value
           Entries for which the specified attribute collates using the
           specified comparator later than the specified value.





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      EQUAL attribute comparator value
           Entries for which the value of the attribute is equal to the
           specified value using the specified comparator.

      NOT search-key
           Entries that do not match the specified search key.

      OR search-key1 search-key2
           Entries that match either search key.

      PREFIX attribute comparator value
           Entries which begin with the specified value using the
           specified comparator.  If the specified comparator doesn't
           support substring matching, a BAD response is returned.

      RANGE start end time
           Entries which are within the specified range of the
           enumerated context's ordering.  The lowest-ordered entry in
           the context is assigned number one, the next lowest entry is
           assigned number two, and so on.  The numeric arguments
           specify the lowest and highest numbers to match. The time
           specifies that the client has processed notifications for the
           context up to the specified time.  If the context has been
           modified since then, the server MUST either return a NO with
           a MODIFIED response code, or return the results that the
           SEARCH would have returned if none of the changes since that
           time had been made.

           RANGE is only permitted on enumerated contexts.  If RANGE is
           used with a dataset or non-enumerated context, the server
           MUST return a BAD response.

      SUBSTRING attribute comparator value
           Entries which contain the specified value, using the
           specified comparator.  If the specified comparator doesn't
           support substring matching, a BAD response is returned.


6.4.2.   ENTRY Intermediate Response

   Data:       entry name
               entry data

      The ENTRY intermediate response occurs as a result of a SEARCH or
      STORE command. This is the means by which dataset entries are
      returned to the client.





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      The ENTRY response begins with the entry name, if a SEARCH command
      without the DEPTH modifier was issued, or the entry path in other
      cases.  This is followed by a set of zero or more items, one for
      each metadata item in the RETURN search modifier.  Results
      matching an attribute pattern or returning multiple metadata items
      are grouped in parentheses.

6.4.3.   MODTIME Intermediate Response

   Data:       modtime value

      The MODTIME intermediate response occurs as a result of a SEARCH
      command.  It indicates that the just created context or the
      previously returned ENTRY responses include all updates to the
      returned entries up to and including the modtime value in the
      argument.

6.4.4.   REFER Intermediate Response

   Data:       dataset path
               relative ACAP URLs

      The REFER intermediate response occurs as a result of a
      multi-level SEARCH where one of the levels is located on a
      different server.  The response indicates the dataset which is not
      located on the current server and one or more relative ACAP URLs
      for where that dataset may be found.

6.4.5.   Search Examples

   Here are some SEARCH command exchanges between the client and server:

   C: A046 SEARCH "/addressbook/" DEPTH 3 RETURN ("addressbook.Alias"
           "addressbook.Email" "addressbook.List") OR NOT EQUAL
           "addressbook.Email" "i;octet" NIL NOT EQUAL
           "addressbook.List" "i;octet" NIL
   S: A046 ENTRY "/addressbook/user/joe/A0345" "fred"
           "fred@stone.org" NIL
   S: A046 ENTRY "/addressbook/user/fred/A0537" "joe" "joe@stone.org"
           NIL
   S: A046 ENTRY "/addressbook/group/Dinosaur Operators/A423"
           "saurians" NIL "1"
   S: A046 MODTIME "19970728105252"
   S: A046 OK "SEARCH completed"

   C: A047 SEARCH "/addressbook/user/fred/" RETURN ("*") EQUAL "entry"
           "i;octet" "A0345"
   S: A047 ENTRY "A0345" (("modtime" "19970728102226")



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           ("addressbook.Alias" "fred") ("addressbook.Email"
           "fred@stone.org") ("addressbook.CommonName"
           "Fred Flintstone") ("addressbook.Surname" "Flintstone")
           ("addressbook.GivenName" "Fred"))
   S: A047 MODTIME "19970728105258"
   S: A047 OK "SEARCH completed"

   C: A048 SEARCH "/options/~/vendor.example/" RETURN
           ("option.value"("size" "value" "myrights"))
           SORT ("entry" "i;octet") COMPARE "modtime" "i;octet"
           "19970727123225"
   S: A048 ENTRY "blurdybloop" (5 "ghoti" "rwia")
   S: A048 ENTRY "buckybits" (2 "10" "rwia")
   S: A048 ENTRY "windowSize" (7 "100x100" "rwia")
   S: A048 MODTIME "19970728105304"
   S: A048 OK "SEARCH completed"

   C: A049 SEARCH "/addressbook/~/public" RETURN ("addressbook.Alias"
           "addressbook.Email") MAKECONTEXT ENUMERATE "blob" LIMIT 100 1
           SORT ("addressbook.Alias" "i;octet") NOT EQUAL
           "addressbook.Email" NIL
   S: A049 ENTRY "A437" "aaguy" "aaguy@stone.org"
   S: A049 MODTIME "19970728105308"
   S: A049 OK (TOOMANY 347) "Context 'blob' created"

   C: A050 SEARCH "blob" RANGE 2 2 "19970728105308" ALL
   S: A050 ENTRY "A238" "abguy" "abguy@stone.org"
   S: A050 MODTIME "19970728105310"
   S: A050 OK "SEARCH Completed"

6.5.     Contexts

   The following commands use contexts created by a SEARCH command with
   a MAKECONTEXT modifier.


6.5.1.   FREECONTEXT Command

   Arguments:  context name

   Data:       no specific data for this command

   Result:     OK - freecontext completed
               NO - freecontext failure: no such context
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid






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      The FREECONTEXT command causes the server to free all state
      associated with the named context.  The context may no longer be
      searched and the server will no longer issue any untagged
      responses for the context.  The context is no longer counted
      against the server's limit on the number of contexts.

   Example:    C: A683 FREECONTEXT "blurdybloop"
               S: A683 OK "Freecontext completed"


6.5.2.   UPDATECONTEXT Command

   Arguments:  list of context names

   Data:       untagged responses: ADDTO REMOVEFROM CHANGE MODTIME

   Result:     OK - Updatecontext completed: all updates completed
               NO - Updatecontext failed: no such context
                                          not a notify context
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      The UPDATECONTEXT command causes the server to ensure that the
      client is notified of all changes known to the server for the
      contexts listed as arguments up to the current time.  The contexts
      listed in the arguments must have been previously given to a
      successful SEARCH command with a MAKECONTEXT NOTIFY modifier.  A
      MODTIME untagged response MUST be returned if any read-write
      metadata in the context changed since the last MODTIME for that
      context.  This includes metadata which is not listed in the RETURN
      modifier for the context.

      While a server may issue untagged ADDTO, REMOVEFROM, CHANGE, and
      MODTIME at any time, the UPDATECONTEXT command is used to "prod"
      the server to send any notifications it has not sent yet.

      The UPDATECONTEXT command SHOULD NOT be used to poll for updates.

   Example:    C: Z4S9 UPDATECONTEXT "blurdybloop" "blarfl"
               S: Z4S9 OK "client has been notified of all changes"


6.5.3.   ADDTO Untagged Response

   Data:       context name
               entry name
               position
               metadata list




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      The untagged ADDTO response informs the client that an entry has
      been added to a context.  The response includes the position
      number of the added entry (the first entry in the context is
      numbered 1) and those metadata contained in the entry which match
      the RETURN statement when the context was created.

      For enumerated contexts, the ADDTO response implicitly adds one to
      the position of all members of the context which had position
      numbers that were greater than or equal to the ADDTO position
      number.  For non-enumerated contexts, the position field is always
      0.

   Example:    S: * ADDTO "blurdybloop" "fred" 15
                    ("addressbook.Email" "fred@stone.org")


6.5.4.   REMOVEFROM Untagged Response

   Data:       context name
               entry name
               old position

      The untagged REMOVEFROM response informs the client that an entry
      has been removed from a context.  The response includes the
      position number that the removed entry used to have (the first
      entry in the context is numbered 1).

      For enumerated contexts, the REMOVEFROM response implicitly
      subtracts one from the position numbers of all members of the
      context which had position numbers greater than the REMOVEFROM
      position number.  For non-enumerated contexts, the position field
      is always 0.

   Example:    S: * REMOVEFROM "blurdybloop" "fred" 15


6.5.5.   CHANGE Untagged Response

   Data:       context name
               entry name
               old position
               new position
               metadata list

      The untagged CHANGE response informs the client that an entry in a
      context has either changed position in the context or has changed
      the values of one or more of the attributes specified in the
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      The response includes the previous and current position numbers of
      the entry (which are 0 if ENUMERATE was not specified on the
      context) and the attribute metadata requested in the RETURN
      modifier when the context was created.

      For enumerated contexts, the CHANGE response implicitly changes
      the position numbers of all entries which had position numbers
      between the old and new position.  If old position is less than
      new position, than one is subtracted from all entries which had
      position numbers in that range.  Otherwise one is added to all
      entries which had position numbers in that range.  If the old
      position and new position are the same, then no implicit position
      renumbering occurs.

      CHANGE responses are not issued for entries which have changed
      position implicitly due to another ADDTO, REMOVEFROM or CHANGE
      response.

   Example:    S: * CHANGE "blurdybloop" "fred" 15 10
                    ("addressbook.Email" "fred@stone.org")


6.5.6.   MODTIME Untagged Response

   Data:       context name
               modtime value

      The untagged MODTIME response informs the client that it has
      received all updates to entries in the context which have modtime
      values less than or equal to the modtime value in the argument.

   Example:    S: * MODTIME mycontext "19970320162338"

6.6.     Dataset modification

   The following commands and responses handle modification of datasets.















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6.6.1.   STORE Command

   Arguments:  entry store list

   Data:       intermediate responses: ENTRY

   Result:     OK - store completed
               NO - store failure: can't store that name
                    UNCHANGEDSINCE specified and entry changed
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid
                     invalid UTF-8 syntax in attribute name


      Creates, modifies, or deletes the named entries in the named
      datasets.  The values of metadata not specified in the command are
      not changed.  Setting the "value" metadata of an attribute to NIL
      removes that attribute from the entry.  Setting the "value" of the
      "entry" attribute to NIL removes that entry from the dataset and
      cancels inheritance for the entire entry.  Setting the "value" of
      the "entry" attribute to DEFAULT removes that entry from the
      inheriting dataset and reverts the entry and its attributes to
      inherited values, if any.  Changing the value of the "entry"
      attribute renames the entry.

      Storing DEFAULT to the "value" metadata of an attribute is
      equivalent to storing NIL, except that inheritance is enabled for
      that attribute.  If a non-NIL value is inherited then an ENTRY
      intermediate response is generated to notify the client of the
      this change.  The ENTRY response includes the entry-path and the
      attribute name and value metadata for each attribute which
      reverted to a non-NIL inherited setting.

      Storing NIL to the "value" metadata of an attribute MAY be treated
      equivalent to storing DEFAULT to that "value" if there is a NIL
      value in the base dataset.

      The STORE command is followed by one or more entry store lists.
      Each entry store list begins with an entry path followed by STORE
      modifiers, followed by zero or more attribute store items.  Each
      attribute store item is made up of the attribute name followed by
      NIL (to remove the attribute's value), DEFAULT (to revert the item
      to any inherited value), a single value (to set the attribute's
      single value), or a list of metadata items to modify.  The
      following STORE modifiers may be specified:







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      NOCREATE
           By default, the server MUST create any datasets necessary to
           store the entry, including multiple hierarchy levels.  If
           NOCREATE is specified, the STORE command will fail with a
           NOEXIST error unless the parent dataset already exists.

      UNCHANGEDSINCE
           If the "modtime" of the entry is later than the
           unchangedsince time, then the store fails with a MODIFIED
           response code.  Use of UNCHANGEDSINCE with a time of
           "00000101000000" will always fail if the entry exists.
           Clients writing to a shared dataset are encouraged to use
           UNCHANGEDSINCE when modifying an existing entry.


      The server MUST either make all the changes specified in a single
      STORE command or make none of them.  If successful, the server
      MUST update the "modtime" attribute for every entry which was
      changed.

      It is illegal to list any metadata item within an attribute twice,
      any attribute within an entry twice or any entry path twice.  The
      server MUST return a BAD response if this happens.

      The server MAY re-order the strings in a multi-value on STORE and
      MAY remove duplicate strings.  However, SEARCH MUST return multi-
      values and the associated size list metadata in a consistant
      order.


   Example:    C: A342 STORE ("/addressbook/user/fred/ABC547"
                       "addressbook.TelephoneNumber" "555-1234"
                       "addressbook.CommonName" "Barney Rubble"
                       "addressbook.AlternateNames" ("value"
                       ("Barnacus Rubble" "Coco Puffs Thief"))
                       "addressbook.Email" NIL)
               S: A342 OK "Store completed"
               C: A343 STORE ("/addressbook/user/joe/ABD42"
                       UNCHANGEDSINCE "19970320162338"
                       "user.joe.hair-length" "10 inches")
               S: A343 NO (MODIFIED) "'ABD42' has been changed
                       by somebody else."
               C: A344 STORE ("/addressbook/group/Developers/ACD54"
                       "entry" NIL)
               S: A344 OK "Store completed"
               C: A345 STORE ("/option/~/common/SMTPserver"
                       "option.value" DEFAULT)
               S: A345 ENTRY "/option/~/common/SMTPserver"



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                       "option.value" "smtp.server.do.main"
               S: A345 OK "Store completed"
               C: A347 STORE ("/addressbook/~/" "dataset.inherit"
                       "/addressbook/group/Developers")
               S: A347 OK "Store completed"


6.6.2.   DELETEDSINCE Command

   Arguments:  dataset name
               time

   Data:       intermediate response: DELETED

   Result:     OK - DELETEDSINCE completed
               NO - DELETEDSINCE failure: can't read dataset
                    date too far in the past
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      The DELETEDSINCE command returns in intermediate DELETED replies
      the names of entries that have been deleted from the named dataset
      since the given time.

      Servers may impose a limit on the number or age of deleted entry
      names they keep track of.  If the server does not have information
      going back to the specified time, the command fails, returning a
      TOOOLD response code in the tagged NO response.

   Example:    C: Z4S9 DELETEDSINCE "/folder/site/" 19951205103412
               S: Z4S9 DELETED "blurdybloop"
               S: Z4S9 DELETED "anteaters"
               S: Z4S9 OK "DELETEDSINCE completed"
               C: Z4U3 DELETEDSINCE "/folder/site/" 19951009040854
               S: Z4U3 NO (TOOOLD) "Don't have that information"


6.6.3.   DELETED Intermediate Response

   Data:       entry name

      The intermediate DELETED response occurs as a result of a
      DELETEDSINCE command. It returns an entry that has been deleted
      from the dataset specified in the DELETEDSINCE command.

6.7.     Access Control List Commands

   The commands in this section are used to manage access control lists.




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6.7.1.   SETACL Command

   Arguments:  acl object
               authentication identifier
               access rights

   Data:       no specific data for this command

   Result:     OK - setacl completed
               NO - setacl failure: can't set acl
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      The SETACL command changes the access control list on the
      specified object so that the specified identifier is granted the
      permissions enumerated in rights.  If the object did not
      previously have an access control list, one is created.


   Example:    C: A123 SETACL ("/addressbook/~/public/") "anyone" "r"
               S: A123 OK "Setacl complete"
               C: A124 SETACL ("/folder/site/") "B1FF" "rwa"
               S: A124 NO (PERMISSION ("/folder/site/")) "'B1FF' not
                       permitted to modify access rights
                       for '/folder/site/'"



6.7.2.   DELETEACL Command

   Arguments:  acl object
               optional authentication identifier

   Data:       no specific data for this command

   Result:     OK - deleteacl completed
               NO - deleteacl failure: can't delete acl
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      If given the optional identifier argument, the DELETEACL command
      removes any portion of the access control list on the specified
      object for the specified identifier.

      If not given the optional identifier argument, the DELETEACL
      command removes the ACL from the object entirely, causing access
      to be controlled by a higher-level default ACL.  This form of the
      DELETEACL command is not permitted on the default ACL for a
      dataset and servers MUST return a BAD.




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   Example:    C: A223 DELETEACL ("/addressbook/~/public") "anyone"
               S: A223 OK "Deleteacl complete"
               C: A224 DELETEACL ("/folder/site")
               S: A224 BAD "Can't delete ACL from dataset"
               C: A225 DELETEACL ("/addressbook/user/fred"
                       "addressbook.Email" "barney")
               S: A225 OK "Deleteacl complete"


6.7.3.   MYRIGHTS Command

   Arguments:  acl object

   Data:       intermediate responses: MYRIGHTS

   Result:     OK - myrights completed
               NO - myrights failure: can't get rights
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid

      The MYRIGHTS command returns the set of rights that the client has
      to the given dataset or dataset attribute.


   Example:    C: A003 MYRIGHTS ("/folder/site")
               S: A003 MYRIGHTS "r"
               S: A003 OK "Myrights complete"


6.7.4.   MYRIGHTS Intermediate Response

   Data:       rights

      The MYRIGHTS response occurs as a result of a MYRIGHTS command.
      The argument is the set of rights that the client has for the
      object referred to in the MYRIGHTS command.

6.7.5.   LISTRIGHTS Command

   Arguments:  acl object
               authentication identifier

   Data:       untagged responses: LISTRIGHTS

   Result:     OK - listrights completed
               NO - listrights failure: can't get rights list
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid





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      The LISTRIGHTS command takes an object and an identifier and
      returns information about what rights the current user may revoke
      or grant to that identifier in the ACL for that object.

   Example:    C: a001 LISTRIGHTS ("/folder/~/") "smith"
               S: a001 LISTRIGHTS "xra" "w" "i"
               S: a001 OK Listrights completed
               C: a005 LISTRIGHTS ("/folder/site/archive/imap") "anyone"
               S: a005 LISTRIGHTS "" "x" "r" "w" "i"
               S: a005 OK Listrights completed



6.7.6.   LISTRIGHTS Intermediate Response

   Data:       required rights
               list of optional rights

      The LISTRIGHTS response occurs as a result of a LISTRIGHTS
      command.  The first argument is a string containing the (possibly
      empty) set of rights the identifier will always be granted on the
      dataset or attribute.

      Following this are zero or more strings each containing a single
      right which the current user may revoke or grant to the identifier
      in the dataset or attribute.

      The same right MUST NOT be listed more than once in the LISTRIGHTS
      response.


6.8.     Quotas

   The section defines the commands and responses relating to quotas.


6.8.1.   GETQUOTA Command

   Arguments:  dataset

   Data:       untagged responses: QUOTA

   Result:     OK - Quota information returned
               NO - Quota failure: can't access resource limit
                                   no resource limit
               BAD - command unknown or arguments invalid





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      The GETQUOTA command takes the name of a dataset, and returns in
      an untagged QUOTA response the name of the dataset, quota limit in
      bytes that applies to that dataset and the quota usage within that
      limit.  The scope of a quota limit is implementation dependent.

   Example:    C: A043 GETQUOTA "/option/user/fred/common"
               S: * QUOTA "/option/user/fred/common" 1048576 2475
               S: A043 OK "Getquota completed"


6.8.3.   QUOTA Untagged Response

   Data:       dataset
               quota limit in bytes
               amount of quota limit used
               extension data

      The QUOTA untagged response is generated as a result of a GETQUOTA
      command or MAY be generated by the server in response to a SEARCH
      or STORE command to warn about high usage of a quota.  It includes
      the name of the applicable dataset, the quota limit in bytes, the
      quota usage and some optional extension data.  Clients MUST
      tolerate the extension data as its use is reserved for a future
      extension.

6.9.     Extensions

   In order to simplify the process of extending the protocol, clients
   MUST tolerate unknown server responses which meet the syntax of
   response-extend.  In addition, clients MUST tolerate unknown server
   response codes which meet the syntax of resp-code-ext.  Availability
   of new commands MUST be announced via a capability on the initial
   greeting line and such commands SHOULD meet the syntax of
   command-extend.

   Servers MUST respond to unknown commands with a BAD command
   completion result.  Servers MUST skip over non-synchronizing literals
   contained in an unknown command.  This may be done by assuming the
   unknown command matches the command-extend syntax, or by reading a
   line at a time and checking for the non-synchronizing literal syntax
   at the end of the line.

7.       Registration Procedures

   ACAP's usefulness comes from providing a structured storage model for
   all sorts of configuration data.  However, for its potential to be
   achieved, it is important that the Internet community strives for the
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   (1) Standardization.  It is very important to standardize dataset
   classes.  The authors hope that ACAP achieves the success that SNMP
   has seen with the definition of numerous standards track MIBs.

   (2) Community Review.  In the absence of standardization, it is
   important to get community review on a proposal to improve its
   engineering quality.  Community review is strongly recommended prior
   to registration.  The ACAP implementors mailing list
   <ietf-acap@andrew.cmu.edu> should be used for this purpose.

   (3) Registration.  Registration serves a two-fold purpose.  First it
   prevents use of the same name for different purposes, and second it
   provides a one-stop list which can be used to locate existing
   extensions or dataset classes to prevent duplicate work.

   The following registration templates may be used to register ACAP
   protocol elements with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
   (IANA).

7.1.     ACAP Capabilities

   New ACAP capabilities MUST be registered prior to use.  Careful
   consideration should be made before extending the protocol, as it can
   lead to complexity or interoperability problems.  Review of proposals
   on the acap implementors mailing list is strongly encouraged prior to
   registration.

   To: iana@iana.org
   Subject: Registration of ACAP capability

   Capability name:

   Capability keyword:

   Capability arguments:

   Published Specification(s):

   (Optional, but strongly encouraged)

   Person and email address to contact for further information:

7.2.     ACAP Response Codes

   ACAP response codes are registered on a first come, first served
   basis.  Review of proposals on the acap implementors mailing list is
   strongly encouraged prior to registration.




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   To: iana@iana.org
   Subject: Registration of ACAP response code

   Response Code:

   Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax):

   Purpose:

   Published Specification(s):

   (Optional, but strongly encouraged)

   Person and email address to contact for further information:

7.3.     Dataset Classes

   A dataset class provides a core set of attributes for use in a
   specified hierarchy.  It may also define rules for the dataset
   hierarchy underneath that class.  Dataset class specifications must
   be standards track or IESG approved experimental RFCs.

   To: iana@iana.org
   Subject: Registration of ACAP dataset class

   Dataset class name/attribute prefix:

   Purpose:

   Published Specification(s):

   (Standards track or IESG approved experimental RFC)

   Person and email address to contact for further information:

7.4.     Vendor Subtree

   Vendors may reserve a portion of the ACAP namespace for private use.
   Dataset class names beginning with "vendor.<company/product name>."
   are reserved for use by that company or product.  In addition, all
   attribute names beginning with "vendor.<company/product name>." are
   reserved for use by that company or product once registered.
   Registration is on a first come, first served basis.  Whenever
   possible, private attributes and dataset classes should be avoided in
   favor of improving interoperable dataset class definitions.






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   To: iana@iana.org
   Subject: Registration of ACAP vendor subtree

   Private Prefix: vendor.<company/product name>.

   Person and email address to contact for further information:

   (company names and addresses should be included when appropriate)

8.       Formal Syntax

   The following syntax specification uses the augmented Backus-Naur
   Form (BNF) notation as specified in [ABNF].  This uses the ABNF core
   rules as specified in Appendix A of the ABNF specification [ABNF].

   Except as noted otherwise, all alphabetic characters are
   case-insensitive.  The use of upper or lower case characters to
   define token strings is for editorial clarity only.  Implementations
   MUST accept these strings in a case-insensitive fashion.

   The "initial-greeting" rule below defines the initial ACAP greeting
   from the server.  The "command" rule below defines the syntax for
   commands sent by the client.  The "response" rule below defines the
   syntax for responses sent by the server.

   ATOM-CHAR          = "!" / %x23-27 / %x2A-5B / %x5D-7A / %x7C-7E
                        ;; Any CHAR except ATOM-SPECIALS

   ATOM-SPECIALS      = "(" / ")" / "{" / SP / CTL / QUOTED-SPECIALS

   CHAR               = %x01-7F

   DIGIT-NZ           = %x31-39
                        ; non-zero digits ("1" - "9")

   QUOTED-CHAR        = SAFE-UTF8-CHAR / "\" QUOTED-SPECIALS

   QUOTED-SPECIALS    = <"> / "\"

   SAFE-CHAR          = %x01-09 / %x0B-0C / %x0E-21 /
                        %x23-5B / %x5D-7F
                        ;; any TEXT-CHAR except QUOTED-SPECIALS

   SAFE-UTF8-CHAR     = SAFE-CHAR / UTF8-2 / UTF8-3 / UTF8-4 /
                        UTF8-5 / UTF8-6

   TAG-CHAR           = %x21 / %x23-27 / %x2C-5B / %x5D-7A / %x7C-7E
                        ;; Any ATOM-CHAR except "*" or "+"



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   TEXT-CHAR          = %x01-09 / %x0B-0C / %x0E-7F
                        ;; any CHAR except CR and LF

   TEXT-UTF8-CHAR     = SAFE-UTF8-CHAR / QUOTED-SPECIALS

   UTF8-1             = %x80-BF

   UTF8-2             = %xC0-DF UTF8-1

   UTF8-3             = %xE0-EF 2UTF8-1

   UTF8-4             = %xF0-F7 3UTF8-1

   UTF8-5             = %xF8-FB 4UTF8-1

   UTF8-6             = %xFC-FD 5UTF8-1

   UTF8-CHAR          = TEXT-UTF8-CHAR / CR / LF

   acl                = "(" [acl-identrights *(SP acl-identrights)] ")"
                        *(SPACE acl-identrights)] ")"

   acl-identifier     = string-utf8
                        ;; MUST NOT contain HTAB

   acl-identrights    = string-utf8
                        ;; The identifier followed by a HTAB,
                        ;; followed by the rights.

   acl-delobject      = "(" dataset SP attribute [SP entry-name] ")"

   acl-object         = "(" dataset [SP attribute [SP entry-name]] ")"

   acl-rights         = quoted

   atom               = ALPHA *1023ATOM-CHAR

   attribute          = string-utf8
                        ;; dot-separated attribute name
                        ;; MUST NOT contain "*" or "%"

   attribute-store    = attribute SP (value-nildef /
                        "(" 1*(metadata-write-q SP value-store) ")")
                        ;; MUST NOT include the same metadata twice

   auth-type          = <"> auth-type-name <">





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   auth-type-name     = iana-token
                        ;; as defined in SASL [SASL]

   command            = tag SP (command-any / command-auth /
                        command-nonauth) CRLF
                        ;; Modal based on state

   command-authent    = "AUTHENTICATE" SP auth-type
                        [SP string] *(CRLF string)

   command-any        = "NOOP" / command-lang / "LOGOUT" /
                        command-extend

   command-auth       = command-delacl / command-dsince /
                        command-freectx / command-getquota /
                        command-lrights / command-myrights /
                        command-search / command-setacl /
                        command-store
                        ;; only valid in authenticated state

   command-delacl     = "DELETEACL" SP acl-delobject [SP acl-identifier]

   command-dsince     = "DELETEDSINCE" SP dataset SP time

   command-extend     = extend-token [SP extension-data]

   command-freectx    = "FREECONTEXT" SP context

   command-getquota   = "GETQUOTA" SP dataset

   command-lang       = "LANG" *(SP lang-tag)

   command-lrights    = "LISTRIGHTS" SP acl-object

   command-myrights   = "MYRIGHTS" SP acl-object

   command-nonauth    = command-authent
                        ;; only valid in non-authenticated state

   command-search     = "SEARCH" SP (dataset / context)
                        *(SP search-modifier) SP search-criteria
                        ;; MUST NOT include same search-modifier twice

   command-setacl     = "SETACL" SP acl-object SP acl-identifier
                        SP acl-rights

   command-store      = "STORE" SP store-entry-list




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   comparator         = <"> comparator-name <">

   comparator-name    = ["+" / "-"] iana-token

   context            = string-utf8
                        ;; MUST NOT begin with slash ("/")

   dataset            = string-utf8
                        ;; slash-separated dataset name
                        ;; begins with slash

   entry              = entry-name / entry-path

   entry-name         = string-utf8
                        ;; entry name MUST NOT contain slash
                        ;; MUST NOT begin with "."

   entry-path         = string-utf8
                        ;; slash-separated path to entry
                        ;; begins with slash

   entry-relative     = string-utf8
                        ;; potentially relative path to entry

   extend-token       = atom
                        ;; MUST be defined by a standards track or
                        ;; IESG approved experimental protocol extension

   extension-data     = extension-item *(SP extension-item)

   extension-item     = extend-token / string / number /
                        "(" [extension-data] ")"

   iana-token         = atom
                        ;; MUST be registered with IANA

   initial-greeting   = "*" SP "ACAP" *(SP "(" init-capability ")") CRLF

   init-capability    = init-cap-context / init-cap-extend /
                        init-cap-implem / init-cap-sasl

   init-cap-context   = "CONTEXTLIMIT" SP string

   init-cap-extend    = iana-token [SP string-list]

   init-cap-implem    = "IMPLEMENTATION" SP string

   init-cap-sasl      = "SASL" SP string-list



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   lang-tag           = <"> Language-Tag <">
                        ;; Language-Tag rule is defined in [LANG-TAGS]

   literal            = "{" number [ "+" ] "}" CRLF *OCTET
                        ;; The number represents the number of octets
                        ;; MUST be literal-utf8 except for values

   literal-utf8       = "{" number [ "+" ] "}" CRLF *UTF8-CHAR
                        ;; The number represents the number of octets
                        ;; not the number of characters

   metadata           = attribute [ "(" metadata-type-list ")" ]
                        ;; attribute MAY end in "*" as wildcard.

   metadata-list      = metadata *(SP metadata)

   metadata-type      = "attribute" / "myrights" / "size" /
                        "count" / metadata-write

   metadata-type-q    = <"> metadata-type <">

   metadata-type-list = metadata-type-q *(SP metadata-type-q)

   metadata-write     = "value" / "acl"

   metadata-write-q   = <"> metadata-write <">

   nil                = "NIL"

   number             = *DIGIT
                        ;; A 32-bit unsigned number.
                        ;; (0 <= n < 4,294,967,296)

   nz-number          = DIGIT-NZ *DIGIT
                        ;; A 32-bit unsigned non-zero number.
                        ;; (0 < n < 4,294,967,296)

   position           = number
                        ;; "0" if context is not enumerated
                        ;; otherwise this is non-zero

   quota-limit        = number

   quota-usage        = number

   quoted             = <"> *QUOTED-CHAR <">
                        ;; limited to 1024 octets between the <">s




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   response           = response-addto / response-alert / response-bye /
                        response-change / response-cont /
                        response-deleted / response-done /
                        response-entry / response-extend /
                        response-listr / response-lang /
                        response-mtimei / response-mtimeu /
                        response-myright / response-quota /
                        response-refer / response-remove / response-stat

   response-addto     = "*" SP "ADDTO" SP context SP entry-name
                        SP position SP return-data-list

   response-alert     = "*" SP "ALERT" SP resp-body CRLF
                       ;; Client MUST display alert text to user

   response-bye       = "*" SP "BYE" SP resp-body CRLF
                       ;; Server will disconnect condition

   response-change    = "*" SP "CHANGE" SP context SP entry-name
                        SP position SP position SP return-data-list

   response-cont      = "+" SP string

   response-deleted   = tag SP "DELETED" SP entry-name

   response-done      = tag SP resp-cond-state CRLF

   response-entry     = tag SP "ENTRY" SP entry SP return-data-list

   response-extend    = (tag / "*") SP extend-token [SP extension-data]

   response-lang      = "*" SP "LANG" SP lang-tag 1*(SP comparator)

   response-listr     = tag SP "LISTRIGHTS" SP acl-rights
                        *(SP acl-rights)

   response-mtimei    = tag SP "MODTIME" SP time

   response-mtimeu    = "*" SP "MODTIME" SP context SP time

   response-myright   = tag SP "MYRIGHTS" SP acl-rights

   response-quota     = "*" SP "QUOTA" SP dataset SP quota-limit
                        SP quota-usage [SP extension-data]

   response-refer     = tag SP "REFER" SP dataset
                        1*(SP <"> url-relative <">)




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   response-remove    = "*" SP "REMOVEFROM" SP context SP
                        entry-name SP position

   response-stat      = "*" SP resp-cond-state CRLF

   resp-body          = ["(" resp-code ")" SP] quoted

   resp-code          = "AUTH-TOO-WEAK" / "ENCRYPT-NEEDED" /
                        resp-code-inval / resp-code-mod /
                        resp-code-noexist / resp-code-perm / "QUOTA" /
                        resp-code-refer / resp-code-sasl /
                        resp-code-toomany / "TOOOLD" /
                        "TRANSITION-NEEDED" / "TRYFREECONTEXT" /
                        "TRYLATER" / "WAYTOOMANY" / resp-code-ext

   resp-code-ext      = iana-token [SP extension-data]
                        ;; unknown codes MUST be tolerated by the client

   resp-code-inval    = "INVALID" 1*(SP entry-path SP attribute)

   resp-code-mod      = "MODIFIED" SP entry-path

   resp-code-noexist  = "NOEXIST" SP dataset

   resp-code-perm     = "PERMISSION" SP acl-object

   resp-code-refer    = "REFER" 1*(SP <"> url-relative <">)

   resp-code-sasl     = "SASL" SP string

   resp-code-toomany  = "TOOMANY" SP nz-number

   resp-cond-state    = ("OK" / "NO" / "BAD") SP resp-body
                        ;; Status condition

   return-attr-list   = "(" return-metalist *(SP return-metalist) ")"
                        ;; occurs when "*" in RETURN pattern on SEARCH

   return-data        = return-metadata / return-metalist /
                        return-attr-list

   return-data-list   = return-data *(SP return-data)

   return-metalist    = "(" return-metadata *(SP return-metadata) ")"
                        ;; occurs when multiple metadata items requested

   return-metadata    = nil / string / value-list / acl




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   searchkey-equal    = "EQUAL" SP attribute SP comparator SP value-nil

   searchkey-comp     = "COMPARE" SP attribute SP comparator SP value

   searchkey-prefix   = "PREFIX" SP attribute SP comparator SP value

   searchkey-range    = "RANGE" SP nz-number SP nz-number SP time

   searchkey-strict   = "COMPARESTRICT" SP attribute SP comparator
                        SP value

   searchkey-substr   = "SUBSTRING" SP attribute SP comparator SP value

   searchmod-depth    = "DEPTH" SP number

   searchmod-hard     = "HARDLIMIT" SP nz-number

   searchmod-limit    = "LIMIT" SP number SP number

   searchmod-make     = "MAKECONTEXT" [SP "ENUMERATE"]
                        [SP "NOTIFY"] SP context

   searchmod-ninh     = "NOINHERIT"

   searchmod-return   = "RETURN" SP "(" [metadata-list] ")"

   searchmod-sort     = "SORT" SP "(" sort-list ")"

   search-criteria    = "ALL" / searchkey-equal / searchkey-comp /
                        searchkey-strict / searchkey-range /
                        searchkey-prefix / searchkey-substr /
                        "NOT" SP search-criteria /
                        "OR" SP search-criteria SP search-criteria /
                        "AND" SP search-criteria SP search-criteria

   search-modifier    = searchmod-depth / searchmod-hard /
                        searchmod-limit / searchmod-make /
                        searchmod-ninh / searchmod-return /
                        searchmod-sort

   sort-list          = sort-item *(SP sort-item)

   sort-item          = attribute SP comparator

   store-entry        = "(" entry-path *(SP store-modifier)
                            *(SP attribute-store) ")"
                        ;; MUST NOT include same store-modifier twice
                        ;; MUST NOT include same attribute twice



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   store-entry-list   = store-entry *(SP store-entry)
                        ;; MUST NOT include same entry twice

   store-modifier     = store-mod-unchang / store-mod-nocreate

   store-mod-nocreate = "NOCREATE"

   store-mod-unchang  = "UNCHANGEDSINCE" SP time

   string             = quoted / literal

   string-list        = string *(SP string)

   string-utf8        = quoted / literal-utf8

   tag                = 1*32TAG-CHAR

   time               = <"> time-year time-month time-day time-hour
                        time-minute time-second time-subsecond <">
                        ;; Timestamp in UTC

   time-day           = 2DIGIT ;; 01-31

   time-hour          = 2DIGIT ;; 00-23

   time-minute        = 2DIGIT ;; 00-59

   time-month         = 2DIGIT ;; 01-12

   time-second        = 2DIGIT ;; 00-60

   time-subsecond     = *DIGIT

   time-year          = 4DIGIT

   value              = string

   value-list         = "(" [value *(SP value)] ")"

   value-nil          = value / nil

   value-nildef       = value-nil / "DEFAULT"

   value-store        = value-nildef / value-list / acl

   url-acap           = "acap://" url-server "/" url-enc-entry
                        [url-filter] [url-extension]
                        ;; url-enc-entry interpreted relative to "/"



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   url-attr-list      = url-enc-attr *("&" url-enc-attr)

   url-auth           = ";AUTH=" ("*" / url-enc-auth)

   url-achar          = uchar / "&" / "=" / "~"
                        ;; See RFC 1738 for definition of "uchar"

   url-char           = uchar / "=" / "~" / ":" / "@" / "/"
                        ;; See RFC 1738 for definition of "uchar"

   url-enc-attr       = 1*url-char
                        ;; encoded version of attribute name

   url-enc-auth       = 1*url-achar
                        ;; encoded version of auth-type-name above

   url-enc-entry      = 1*url-char
                        ;; encoded version of entry-relative above

   url-enc-user       = *url-achar
                        ;; encoded version of login userid

   url-extension      = *("?" 1*url-char)

   url-filter         = "?" url-attr-list

   url-relative       = url-acap / [url-enc-entry] [url-filter]
                        ;; url-enc-entry is relative to base URL

   url-server         = [url-enc-user [url-auth] "@"] hostport
                        ;; See RFC 1738 for definition of "hostport"

9.       Multi-lingual Considerations

   The IAB charset workshop [IAB-CHARSET] came to a number of
   conclusions which influenced the design of ACAP.  The decision to use
   UTF-8 as the character encoding scheme was based on that work.  The
   LANG command to negotiate a language for error messages is also
   included.

   Section 3.4.5 of the IAB charset workshop report states that there
   should be a way to identify the natural language for human readable
   strings.  Several promising proposals have been made for use within
   ACAP, but no clear consensus on a single method is apparent at this
   stage.  The following rules are likely to permit the addition of
   multi-lingual support in the future:





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   (1) A work in progress called Multi-Lingual String Format (MLSF)
   proposes a layer on top of UTF-8 which uses otherwise illegal UTF-8
   sequences to store language tags.  In order to permit its addition to
   a future version of this standard, client-side UTF-8 interpreters
   MUST be able to silently ignore illegal multi-byte UTF-8 characters,
   and treat illegal single-byte UTF-8 characters as end of string
   markers.  Servers, for the time being, MUST be able to silently
   accept illegal UTF-8 characters, except in attribute names and entry
   names.  Clients MUST NOT send illegal UTF-8 characters to the server
   unless a future standard changes this rule.

   (2) There is a proposal to add language tags to Unicode.  To support
   this, servers MUST be able to store UTF-8 characters of up to 20 bits
   of data.

   (3) The metadata item "language" is reserved for future use.

10.      Security Considerations

   The AUTHENTICATE command uses SASL [SASL] to provide basic
   authentication, authorization, integrity and privacy services.  This
   is described in section 6.3.1.

   When the CRAM-MD5 mechanism is used, the security considerations for
   the CRAM-MD5 SASL mechanism [CRAM-MD5] apply.  The CRAM-MD5 mechanism
   is also susceptible to passive dictionary attacks.  This means that
   if an authentication session is recorded by a passive observer, that
   observer can try common passwords through the CRAM-MD5 mechanism and
   see if the results match.  This attack is reduced by using hard to
   guess passwords.  Sites are encouraged to educate users and have the
   password change service test candidate passwords against a
   dictionary.  ACAP implementations of CRAM-MD5 SHOULD permit passwords
   of at least 64 characters in length.

   ACAP protocol transactions are susceptible to passive observers or
   man in the middle attacks which alter the data, unless the optional
   encryption and integrity services of the AUTHENTICATE command are
   enabled, or an external security mechanism is used for protection.
   It may be useful to allow configuration of both clients and servers
   to refuse to transfer sensitive information in the absence of strong
   encryption.

   ACAP access control lists provide fine grained authorization for
   access to attributes.  A number of related security issues are
   described in section 3.5.

   ACAP URLs have the same security considerations as IMAP URLs
   [IMAP-URL].



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   ACAP clients are encouraged to consider the security problems
   involved with a lab computer situation.  Specifically, a client cache
   of ACAP configuration information MUST NOT allow access by an
   unauthorized user.  One way to assure this is for an ACAP client to
   be able to completely flush any non-public cached configuration data
   when a user leaves.

   As laptop computers can be easily stolen and a cache of configuration
   data may contain sensitive information, a disconnected mode ACAP
   client may wish to encrypt and password protect cached configuration
   information.

11.      Acknowledgments

   Many thanks to the follow people who have contributed to ACAP over
   the past four years: Wallace Colyer, Mark Crispin, Jack DeWinter, Rob
   Earhart, Ned Freed, Randy Gellens, Terry Gray, J. S. Greenfield,
   Steve Dorner, Steve Hole, Steve Hubert, Dave Roberts, Bart Schaefer,
   Matt Wall and other participants of the IETF ACAP working group.

12.      Authors' Addresses

   Chris Newman
   Innosoft International, Inc.
   1050 Lakes Drive
   West Covina, CA 91790 USA

   Email: chris.newman@innosoft.com


   John Gardiner Myers
   Netscape Communications
   501 East Middlefield Road
   Mail Stop MV-029
   Mountain View, CA 94043

   Email: jgmyers@netscape.com














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Appendices

A.       References

   [ABNF] Crocker, Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications:
   ABNF", RFC 2234, Internet Mail Consortium, Demon Internet Ltd,
   November 1997.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2234.txt>

   [BASIC-URL] Berners-Lee, Masinter, McCahill, "Uniform Resource
   Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, CERN, Xerox Coproration, University of
   Minnesota, December 1994.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1738.txt>

   [CHARSET-LANG-POLICY] Alvestrand, "IETF Policy on Character Sets and
   Languages", work in progress.

   [CRAM-MD5] Klensin, Catoe, Krumviede, "IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension
   for Simple Challenge/Response", RFC 2195, MCI, September 1997.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2195.txt>

   [IAB-CHARSET] Weider, Preston, Simonsen, Alvestrand, Atkinson,
   Crispin, Svanberg, "The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held
   29 February - 1 March, 1996", RFC 2130, April 1997.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2130.txt>

   [IMAP4] Crispin, M., "Internet Message Access Protocol - Version
   4rev1", RFC 2060, University of Washington, December 1996.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2060.txt>

   [IMAP-ACL] Myers, J., "IMAP4 ACL extension", RFC 2086, Carnegie
   Mellon, January 1997.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2086.txt>

   [IMAP-URL] Newman, "IMAP URL Scheme", RFC 2192, Innosoft, July 1997.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2192.txt>

   [ISO-10646] ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993(E) "Information Technology--
   Universal Multiple-octet Coded Character Set (UCS)." See also
   amendments 1 through 7, plus editorial corrections.




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   [ISO-C] "Programming languages -- C", ISO/IEC 9899:1990,
   International Organization for Standardization.  This is effectively
   the same as ANSI C standard X3.159-1989.

   [KEYWORDS] Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
   Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, Harvard University, March 1997.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2119.txt>

   [LANG-TAGS] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of
   Languages", RFC 1766.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt>

   [REL-URL] Fielding, "Relative Uniform Resource Locators", RFC 1808,
   UC Irvine, June 1995.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1808.txt>

   [SASL] Myers, J., "Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)",
   RFC 2222, Netscape Communications, October 1997.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2222.txt>

   [SASL-ANON] Newman, C., "Anonymous SASL Mechanism", RFC 2245,
   November 1997.

   [UNICODE-2] The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard, Version
   2.0", Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-48345-9.

   [US-ASCII] "USA Standard Code for Information Interchange," X3.4.
   American National Standards Institute: New York (1968).

   [UTF8] Yergeau, F. "UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO
   10646", RFC 2044, Alis Technologies, October 1996.

       <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2044.txt>














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B.       ACAP Keyword Index


       ACAP (untagged response) ...................................   26
       ADDTO (untagged response) ..................................   40
       ALERT (untagged response) ..................................   31
       ALL (search keyword) .......................................   36
       AND (search keyword) .......................................   36
       AUTH-TOO-WEAK (response code) ..............................   19
       AUTHENTICATE (command) .....................................   31
       BAD (response) .............................................   30
       BYE (untagged response) ....................................   30
       CHANGE (untagged response) .................................   41
       COMPARE (search keyword) ...................................   36
       COMPARESTRICT (search keyword) .............................   36
       CONTEXTLIMIT (ACAP capability) .............................   27
       DELETEACL (command) ........................................   46
       DELETED (intermediate response) ............................   45
       DELETEDSINCE (command) .....................................   45
       DEPTH (search modifier) ....................................   34
       ENCRYPT-NEEDED (response code) .............................   19
       ENTRY (intermediate response) ..............................   37
       EQUAL (search keyword) .....................................   37
       FREECONTEXT (command) ......................................   39
       GETQUOTA (command) .........................................   48
       HARDLIMIT (search modifier) ................................   34
       IMPLEMENTATION (ACAP capability) ...........................   27
       INVALID (response code) ....................................   19
       LANG (command) .............................................   28
       LANG (intermediate response) ...............................   28
       LIMIT (search modifier) ....................................   34
       LISTRIGHTS (command) .......................................   47
       LISTRIGHTS (intermediate response) .........................   48
       LOGOUT (command) ...........................................   29
       MAKECONTEXT (search modifier) ..............................   34
       MODIFIED (response code) ...................................   19
       MODTIME (intermediate response) ............................   38
       MODTIME (untagged response) ................................   42
       MYRIGHTS (command) .........................................   47
       MYRIGHTS (intermediate response) ...........................   47
       NO (response) ..............................................   29
       NOCREATE (store modifier) ..................................   44
       NOEXIST (response code) ....................................   19
       NOINHERIT (search modifier) ................................   35
       NOOP (command) .............................................   27
       NOT (search keyword) .......................................   37
       OK (response) ..............................................   29
       OR (search keyword) ........................................   37
       PERMISSION (response code) .................................   19



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       PREFIX (search keyword) ....................................   37
       QUOTA (response code) ......................................   19
       QUOTA (untagged response) ..................................   49
       RANGE (search keyword) .....................................   37
       REFER (intermediate response) ..............................   38
       REFER (response code) ......................................   19
       REMOVEFROM (untagged response) .............................   41
       RETURN (search modifier) ...................................   35
       SASL (ACAP capability) .....................................   27
       SASL (response code) .......................................   20
       SEARCH (command) ...........................................   33
       SETACL (command) ...........................................   46
       SORT (search modifier) .....................................   36
       STORE (command) ............................................   42
       SUBSTRING (search keyword) .................................   37
       TOOMANY (response code) ....................................   20
       TOOOLD (response code) .....................................   20
       TRANSITION-NEEDED (response code) ..........................   20
       TRYFREECONTEXT (response code) .............................   20
       TRYLATER (response code) ...................................   20
       UNCHANGEDSINCE (store modifier) ............................   44
       UPDATECONTEXT (command) ....................................   40
       WAYTOOMANY (response code) .................................   20
       acl (attribute metadata) ...................................   12
       anyone (ACL identifier) ....................................   17
       attribute (attribute metadata) .............................   12
       dataset.acl (dataset attribute) ............................   24
       dataset.acl.<attribute> (dataset attribute) ................   24
       dataset.inherit (dataset attribute) ........................   24
       entry (predefined attribute) ...............................   11
       i;ascii-casemap (comparator) ...............................   16
       i;ascii-numeric (comparator) ...............................   16
       i;octet (comparator) .......................................   16
       modtime (predefined attribute) .............................   11
       myrights (attribute metadata) ..............................   12
       size (attribute metadata) ..................................   13
       subdataset (predefined attribute) ..........................   11
       value (attribute metadata) .................................   13













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